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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Learn You a Haskell is now in print
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• How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick
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• Lessons from GitHub's First Year
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• Evan Williams on leaving Twitter
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• Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
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• Auto submission bots on Hacker News
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• Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
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• Skype 5 for Mac
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• Introducing /run
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• Node.js Guide
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mobile Boilerplate: a best practice baseline for your mobile Web app
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• Quadrocopters juggle balls cooperatively
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• MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK)
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• Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player
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• Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive
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• Pipe: Infix syntax for Python
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• The infamous SCSH Scheme shell "Acknowledgements"
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• Google indexes Stack Overflow at a rate of 10 requests per second
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• (Highly) profitable, funded YC company looking for technical lead.
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• How not to protect against SQL injection (view source)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 28, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• It's Time to Fix HTTPS
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• Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?
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• Results for: Pick a number from 1 to 10
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• How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?
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• BreakDOM
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• The real reason people are mocking Color...
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• James Gosling joining Google
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• Hotz fires a powerful blast back at Sony's California jurisdictional claims
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• We're all remote: how we deal with a 100% remote dev team
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• How to Insult a Computer Scientist
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 27, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• That’s it, we’re quitting
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• Friends don't let friends get into finance
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• Cornell Will Reveal Secret Academic Journal Pricing
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• Unladen Swallow Retrospective
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• Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
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• What life lessons are unintuitive or go against common sense or wisdom?
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• AMD to Nvidia: prove it, don’t just say it
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• Best app store review ever
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• Pick a number from 1 to 10
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• MySQL.com compromised via (guess what?) SQL injection
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 26, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb
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• Why O'Reilly Media doesn't use DRM
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• Bullet-proof Node.js coding
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• A Behind the Scenes Look at Y Combinator's Demo Day
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• What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots
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• Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac
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• Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries
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• The Mirah Language: bringing modern features to the JVM without runtime overhead
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• Patio11 says Hello Ladies
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• Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 25, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Interesting but lesser known data structures
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• Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed... again
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• Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service
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• How I got sued by Facebook (2010)
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• Facebook designers' novel approach to the usual name tag problems
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• My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer
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• CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates
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• Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in functional programming
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• Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?
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• At least now we know why Color really got that funding
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 24, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses
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• Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
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• Time-saving tips for Linux
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• Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google
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• A conversation between two chatbots and how one found out the other is an AI.
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• 41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble
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• A fifteen year old TCP bug?
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• Colors.xxx: people. colors. apps. mobile. social. pivot
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• Secret Fears of the Super-Rich
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• Wooden iPad 2 cover outsmarts Apple's Smart Cover
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 23, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google releases snappy, the compression library used in Bigtable
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• How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)
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• Why you should never ask permission to clean up code.
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• Django 1.3 released
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• From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4
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• MIT is a national treasure
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• Mark Bao tracks down his stolen laptop and has the last laugh
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• Paul Graham spills: Why some companies get his cash and others don't
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• How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
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• I wanna work at Instagram
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 22, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Startup Economics 101, or, How Long Until We’re Dead?
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• Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App Store'
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• Bag of hurt
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• Dropbox and why you should invest in people
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• Mainstream Failure
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• Mozilla Glow: Awesome Firefox 4 live download day map
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• Firefox 4 is here
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• Code School now open to the public
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• Linus Torvalds says Android kernel headers claims totally bogus
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• The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 21, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
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• Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
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• Cω
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• AT&T has a fiberoptic splitter copying our data to NSA
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• From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind Breakup Notifier
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• Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser
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• Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop
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• Why we are choosing Clojure as our main programming language
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• Wife Said No, Apple Said Yes
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• GitHub now has view modes for image diffs.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 20, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New venture of Slicehost founder
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• Numbers everyone should know
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• Want to write some code? Get away from your computer
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• The Tyranny of the Extroverts
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• I got into YC after applying 6 times. Here's my advice for YC applicants
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• Phpfog "Down for maintenance"
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• Sony offers hacker a job. Hacker turns them down because of geoHot
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• 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load
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• Codified startup advice
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• AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 19, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CNN Sending Eight Times More Staff to Royal Wedding Than to Japan
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• Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X
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• Not A Waste
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• Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots
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• Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg, Closing Round On New Startup
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• Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' [in 1967]
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• Reddit Is Down To One Developer
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• Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
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• I think tumblr has a huge security hole
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• Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Save IE6
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• Imagine K12
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• Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games
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• Stop Calling Projects Startups
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• Why Reddit was down for 6 hours
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• Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video
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• "Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"
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• Think Stats, using python to learn stats
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• How a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my job and launch a startup
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• "Aristo" for jQuery UI
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
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• Chomsky on Intellectual Property
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• MongoDB 1.8 (stable) released
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• Show HN: My collection of web-apps that I'm finally comfortable in sharing
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• Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?
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• Don't distract new programmers with OOP
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• This is why I sell beer.
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• You can't do that
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• Subject: Airbnb
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• Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Time Warner Cable trying to make municipal fiber illegal in North Carolina
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• Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming
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• Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as Your Username
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• JRuby 1.6.0 Released: Now with Ruby 1.9.2 Support
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• Why no looting in Japan?
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• AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down
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• Airbnb
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• How The Kernel Manages Your Memory
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• Web developer will work for you for free
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• Deaths per unit of energy for various sources
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The pi is a lie… Happy Half Tau Day!
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• Twitter and Me
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• Show HN: My Node.js two weekend project. Color palettes from Flickr images.
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• Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake
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• Music Theory for Beginners
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• Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?
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• Letter heads, by Firefox labs
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• iOS Libraries
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• Parsing: the solved problem that isn't
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• Dudes, this is so not REST
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Police Return Seized Hardware to Victorious BitTorrent Admin, Trashed
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• 4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity
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• Video of tsunami in Japan
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• Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
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• First dump of Anon BofA Documents is up
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• Hacker with iPhone takes over Times Square screens
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• My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.
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• GNU Free Call has been announced (Skype-like software)
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• Stack Overflow: Printing 1 to 1000 in C
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• Finally, a Startup Visa That Works
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• IPad 2 introduces new headphone jack
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• Dubai on Empty
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• Securing an Ubuntu Server
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• Don't touch me, I'm British
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• Turn any page into Katamari Damacy
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• Ideas don’t make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
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• New Startup Now Pulling In Over $100k in Monthly Revenues
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• Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors
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• Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
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• Patio11's perspective on the Japan Earthquake
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• So you think you own your Twitter name?
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• Is it normal to get hundreds of break-in attempts per day?
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• Want to move fast? Just do this
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• Angry Bird’s “overnight success” only took 8 years.
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• HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap"
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• Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya)
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• Introducing NowJS or "How to make a chat server in 12 lines of code"
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• Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its electricity supply
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• Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant
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• Dear Twitter
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work
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• Designing your sign up page? Read this.
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• If you're applying this cycle: How to Apply to Y Combinator
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• What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)
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• OS X Isn't for Developers
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• 8.9 earthquake hits Japan
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• The Complete Guide for Starting iPhone and iOS Development
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• JavaScript Garden
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• Japan's Strict Building Codes Saved Lives
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• Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Y Combinator's Graham Doesn't See "Bubble" in Technology
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• Saved 10 billion DNS queries per month by disabling DNS Prefetching
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• Launch
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• Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)
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• How to Get PayPal to Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps
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• Square responds to Verifone's allegations
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• How I lost my faith in Lisp
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• Salary negotiations for techies
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• “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.”
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• Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CoffeeScript: The beautiful way to write JavaScript
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• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree
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• Life at a startup
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• Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server
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• Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles
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• A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
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• WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO
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• Sleep is more important than food
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• A tale of two programmers
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• Xcode now costs US$ 4.99
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Icons (including free for commercial use)
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• Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP
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• Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder
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• Apple Keyboard in pure CSS.
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• Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular?
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• The State of Version Control: an Infographic
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• HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete
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• High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright
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• I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.
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• Anatomy of a Crushing
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Data Structures Matter: left, right folds, btrees
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• Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.
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• This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it.
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• The Anti-Mac User Interface
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• How rich kids already won the career game
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• On moving from CouchDB to Riak
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• Moviebarcode - Movies compressed to a single frame
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• Show HN: Beginning Android for iOS Developers
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• Hey Apple, Please Be Nice and Share MacRuby
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• Accounting for Computer Scientists
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Fabric hits 1.0
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• Feynman's wobbling plate: how to recover from burnout
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• Python now uses Mercurial
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• Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation
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• Ask HN: I'm an unemployed programmer in SF that will work for minimum wage
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• How Github has changed the open source world
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• The need to code
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• 51 hours left to live
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• Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home
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• Get your own #dickbar
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Procrastination and Perfectionism
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• Avoiding a transit of the United States
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• YC W11 Gaming Startup, growing 10% a day, Hiring Hackers
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• Your own company? You can do it
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• Judge Allows Sony to Unmask Anyone Who Visited GeoHot Site
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• Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?
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• YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics
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• Student Who Found GPS Device On His Car Due To Reddit Comment Sues The FBI
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• Facebook bans Adsense in all applications, driving Google out of Facebook.com
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• If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hipmunk for the iPhone - here's how we built it
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• Ken Jennings takes AMA questions on Reddit
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• How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page
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• Google demos driverless cars
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• The Chair
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• Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
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• Hardest captcha ever?
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• Libya turns off its internet: this time it's a flatline
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• Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site.
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• Ie6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Death of Adventure Games
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• A Built-in Web Server For PHP
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• Pixel Perfect map of china
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• Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right
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• Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1%
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• Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies
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• Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don’t Exist
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• The blind man who taught himself to see
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• Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on truth
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• Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search
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• The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future
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• ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
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• Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed
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• A Week After Google Changes Algo, Mahalo Fires 10% of Staff
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• Your IP. In JSON
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• The mother of all Android malware has arrived
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• Someone is stealing your life (1990)
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• Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
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• Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wolfram Alpha doesn't "get it"
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• What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
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• How much money can you make in the iOS App Store?
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• Lists of must see TED-talks
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• 70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable
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• The Redis Manifesto
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• The Bipolar Lisp Programmer
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• Natalie Portman - Scientist
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• Matt Blaze: How ACM and IEEE Shake Down Science
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• Hiding Nobel prizes in plain sight
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Custora (YC W11) Helps Online Businesses Improve Customer Retention
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• Joyent: 54+ hours of downtime
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• Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding
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• 9 Eyes – Interesting photos from Google Street View
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• 2000 as Seen in 1910 (23 pics)
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• When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
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• How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps
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• RStudio,a new IDE for R
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• Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
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• Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine
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