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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• First Round 10 Year Project
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• Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely over U.S. skies
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• Take-home interviews
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• Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change
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• The adblocking revolution is months away
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• Face swapping with Python, dlib, and OpenCV
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• SQLite Release 3.8.11.1
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• I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
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• Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
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• Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes
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• Show HN: Flexbox.io – a free video series on learning CSS Flexbox
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• GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'
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• Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win
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• Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
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• Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
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• SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier
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• How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
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• Nóirín Plunkett has died
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• GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative
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• A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment
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• Review of Nestle water permit neglected for decades
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• New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Routers?
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• New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
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• Amazon Aurora Now Available
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• Who's doing this to my internet?
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• Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production
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• Stop pushing the web forward
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• Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• One in every 600 websites has .git exposed
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• I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help
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• Steam hit by major security breach
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• China stocks drop over 8%
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• 8-bit GIFs of Japanese life
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• Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
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• Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of
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• Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers
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• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died
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• Using Google without a Google+ profile
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Facebook Method of Dealing with Complexity
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• What Makes Founders Succeed
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• JSCity – JavaScript code visualizations using Three.js
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• Rwasa – A high-performance web server in x86_64 assembly
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• The Craigslist Lawsuit
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• Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle
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• Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study
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• How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling
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• Neural networks and deep learning
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Singular Mind of Terry Tao
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• Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4M cars after Jeep hack
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• Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
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• The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
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• Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely
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• Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
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• The Battle for Wesnoth needs help
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• Plasma Mobile
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• Why Debian returned to FFmpeg
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• In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
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• Storage for Photographers, Part 2
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• LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts
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• Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year
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• YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks
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• The Verge's web sucks
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• Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy
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• A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers
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• Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)
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• Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Snowden Meets the IETF
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• Handwriting Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks
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• rm -r fs/ext3
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• iLoo
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• Airbnb, My $1B Lesson
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• How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup
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• Today, 30 years ago, Commodore introduced the Amiga
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• NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
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• How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment
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• NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How we took our tests from 100 seconds to 100ms
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• Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
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• Isolated people in Sweden only stopped using runes 100 years ago
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• Career Advice for Engineers and Designers
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• PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database
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• Sandra Bland arrest video has continuity problems, anomalies
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• Sell it or run it, there is no middle ground
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• F21 Thread Screen
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• JRuby 9000 released
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• Pro Rata
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Woah that is some wild postgresql
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• Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)
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• Complete Course on Machine Learning
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• What happens when you talk about salaries at Google
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• Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway
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• Kubernetes V1 Released
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• Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings
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• The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town
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• Why I am pro-GPL
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• Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Gluglug – GNU/Linux laptop with libreboot firmware
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• Sorry to burst your bubble
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• Dragula: Simple drag and drop
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• Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort
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• Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
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• Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download
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• Announcing TypeScript 1.5
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• A Man Who Flies Around the World for Free
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• YC Fellowship
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• Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Introducing Incremental
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• Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers
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• Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention
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• Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction
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• A subsystem to restrict programs into a “reduced feature operating model”
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• The self-hating web developer
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• Tell HN: Hello
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• If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept
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• See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined
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• How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Last Great Steam Car (2006)
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• Artificial Killing Machine
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• Google Hires Tech Team from Homejoy, Readies Leap into Home Services
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• Must Be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code
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• If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014)
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• What is the most ridiculous aircraft design?
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• Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
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• Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code
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• Docker on FreeBSD
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• “Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Greuler – Graph theory visualizations
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• Pyxley: Python Powered Dashboards
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• Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA inside Mozilla?
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• LAX becomes largest U.S. airport to allow Uber, Lyft pickups
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• Legends in D3
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• How a car works (2012)
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• Homejoy says goodbye
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• NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
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• Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds
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• Dear Google Mail Team
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses
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• Potato paradox
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• Three Dead Protocols
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• 1.5 TB of Dark Net Market scrapes
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• United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for revealing risks
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• Donate to Chelsea Manning's Legal Defense
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• Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
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• How to learn data science
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• The Web’s Cruft Problem
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• Two.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Interview: Larry Wall
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• How Big is Space?
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• Outlier Detection at Netflix
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• Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares
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• New Horizons phones home
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• The anatomy of a credit card form
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• Thanks Pivotal, Hello Redis Labs
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• Keybase raises $10.8M
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• Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input
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• The Icy Mountains of Pluto
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Disadvantages of Single Page Applications (2014)
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• You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk”
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• After the Layoffs
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• The Electric Car
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• Starfighter, Summer 2015
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• Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
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• Iran Nuclear Deal Reached
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• New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
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• Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M
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• A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Toast
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• Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
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• Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around
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• Ceramic – Turn Lisp web applications into desktop apps
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• First Java Zero-Day Attack in Two Years Targets NATO and US Defense Organizations
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• The Really Big One
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• Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator
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• Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API
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• Pure UI
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• iTerm2 Shell Integration
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right?
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• A dataset of every Reddit comment
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• Army National Guard announces data breach
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• Goodbye Moto
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• React UI Builder
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• SpaceProbes
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• Fish shell 2.2
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• Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?
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• Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak
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• 7 Rejections
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hack.chat – A minimal, distraction-free chat application
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• Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every Ten Minutes
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• Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015
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• Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds
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• Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site?
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• New Image of Pluto
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• If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear
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• When you give a tree an email address
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• New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism
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• How Shazam works
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
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• GitLab raises 1.5M
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• Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads
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• How We Deploy Python Code
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• The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
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• The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco
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• Is Kickstarter covering up a scam? An open letter to CEO Yancey Strickler
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• Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case
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• Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
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• Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mapping the U.S. By Property Value Instead of Land Area
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• Facebook’s Piracy Problem
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• Why does Gmail hate my domain?
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• Monopoly Man – the same image uploaded to Imgur 3.2M times?
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• Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices
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• IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
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• React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery
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• OpenSSL Security Advisory
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• AWS CodePipeline
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• Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google Optimization Tools
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• Project Oberon
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• I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders
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• CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking
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• Humans can sense the polarization of light with the naked eye
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• React on ES6+
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• Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor
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• DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
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• Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum
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• NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Berkeley CS 61AS – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Self-Paced
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• How I became an artist
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• Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS
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• Porting third-party programs to TempleOS
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• Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses
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• How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference?
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• Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?
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• What’s New in Python 3.5
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• The Max Headroom TV Hack
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• Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”
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• Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
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• Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
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• The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Human and Animal Health
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• Finish your stuff
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• Google launches Uber rival RideWith
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• Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map
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• ‘Flash Boys’ Programmer in Goldman Case Prevails Second Time
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• Revisiting how we build Firefox
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• Stuff in Space
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Developing Web Applications with Haskell
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• The physics of floating screwdrivers [video]
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• How I met my identity thief
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• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide
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• The Anti-Mac Interface (1996)
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• Greece
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• Redux: Atomic Flux with Hot Reloading
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• A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom
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• After simple dental surgery, William lost his ability to form new memories
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• Greeks Reject Bailout Terms
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• React Performance
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• The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt (2014)
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• Fireside Chat with Paul Graham [video]
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• Anonymous Reddit without servers
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• Dune, 50 years on
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• Show HN: Trigrad, a novel image compression with interesting results
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• Golang data structures
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• How I’d redesign piano sheet music
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• Show HN: Silicon Valley Dictionary – Urban Dictionary Meets Silicon Valley
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• Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GraphQL Working Draft
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• Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin
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• Tesla Beats Delivery Forecast with 52% Quarterly Surge
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• Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
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• Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide
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• Ask HN: I am busy with too many things at once
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• Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is
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• Current draft of The Art of Computer Programming pre-fascicle 6a [ps]
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• Things Rust shipped without
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• Der Spiegel Targeted by US Intelligence
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Microservice Trade-Offs
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• 1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999
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• Deep Dreams with Caffe
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• Craig Newmark Did Not Donate to EFF
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• A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
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• Photos from inside the Baikonur Cosmodrome
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• A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
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• What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?
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• What's Coming in PostgreSQL 9.5
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• Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thoughts on Time-series Databases
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• The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise
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• FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection
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• Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
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• “Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”
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• John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language
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• Show HN: Arrow Hero
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• Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
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• Leaked: What's in TPP’s intellectual property chapter
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Energy
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• Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
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• Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
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• Vim Colors
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• Pete Sampras: Letter to My Younger Self
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• Introducing s2n, a New Open-Source TLS Implementation
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• Safari is the new IE
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• Clojure 1.7 is now available
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• Compiler Errors for Humans
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• Show HN: Free Company Logo API
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