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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-30

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

• Dear Architects: Sound Matters
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• Starters and Maintainers
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• os.js: JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform
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• Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin
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• Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
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• No Brainer
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• How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
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• Resolutions for programmers (2012)
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• In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
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• Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-29

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

• Why Engineers Can’t Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak
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• China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys
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• Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider
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• SQL Tabs – Rich SQL Console for Postgresql
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• AVG: “Web TuneUP” extension multiple critical vulnerabilities
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• Judge: Drinking tea, shopping at garden store probable cause for SWAT raid
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• Mysterious Android codebase commit
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• Linode is suffering on-going DDoS attacks
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• When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
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• Best things and stuff of 2015
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-28

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

• Big Oil Companies Should Adopt a Self-Liquidation Strategy
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• TLDR pages
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• Postgres 9.5 feature rundown
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• DLL Hijacking Just Won’t Die
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• How bad are things?
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• Free Springer math books
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• 191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database
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• When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together
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• Introducing d3-scale
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• How I Created a $350M Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-27

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

• React-boilerplate: setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps
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• Watch a Computer Made Out of Dominoes Do Basic Math
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• Extracting the Private Key from a TREZOR
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• Am I hacked? Oh, it's just Vodafone
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• Much faster incremental apt updates
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• Shellcode Injection
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• 32C3 – Chaos Communication Congress – Streams Online
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• DOJ defers payments to local police agencies through asset forfeiture program
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• SuperTux v0.4.0 – first stable release since 2005
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• Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-26

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

• What I Learned from Losing $200M
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• What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”?
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• OLEOutlook: Bypass Almost Every Corporate Security Control with a GUI
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• How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube
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• Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out
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• Rbenv 1.0.0
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• Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM
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• My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO
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• AWS mistakes to avoid
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• Perl 6 Released after 15 years of work
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-25

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

• Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
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• Make a Doom level, part 1: the basics
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• Lab explosions and accidents
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• Russia's leading expert on criminal tattoos
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• Larry Wall announces that Perl6 is ready for production
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• Darktable 2.0 released
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• Why Copenhagen Has Almost Perfect Water
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• Ruby 2.3.0 Released
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• Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
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• Steam: Seeing other people's accounts when logged in
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-24

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

• Things I wish I knew earlier about Machine Learning
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• Neon: Node plus Rust
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• How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
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• Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
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• Want to Write a Compiler? Read These Two Papers (2008)
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• How to get rich in tech
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• HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
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• State Considered Harmful – A Proposal for a Stateless Laptop
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• Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
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• ClojureScript Year in Review
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-23

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

• I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages
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• The cold fusion horizon
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• GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
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• LÖVE 0.10 released with iOS and Android support
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• Background on the Falcon 9 Launch
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• Kim Dotcom loses extradition case
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• Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx
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• Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
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• 'New' Python modules of 2015
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• When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-22

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

• What web developers should know about SSL
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• NES Graphics – Part 3
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• Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X
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• Android NDK: GCC is now deprecated, everyone should be switching to Clang
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• Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses Choose Walkable Areas
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• Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days
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• SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]
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• On the Juniper backdoor
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• BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts
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• Santa Claus Confirms NSA Attack on Naughty or Nice Database
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-21

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

• What RESTful actually means
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• About those lava lamps
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• India to make CBSE textbooks available online for free
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• Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science
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• Deep Learning: An MIT Press Book in Preparation
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• Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted
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• Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API Mode, Rails Command
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• Fuck the Cloud (2009)
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• Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python
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• Boringcc: Proposal for a C compiler for secure software
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-20

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

• Why 451?
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• How Tor Works: Part One
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• Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule?
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• Wine 1.8 is released
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• Norwegians campaign to give Finland a mountain
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• AI will cause “structural collapse” of law firms by 2030
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• The Internet Archive Telethon
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• Juniper hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration
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• YC's 2015 Reading List
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• Real-time GIF images
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-19

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

• The best icon is a text label
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• Show HN: A fireplace for Emacs
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• Reflecting on Haskell in 2015
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• PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released
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• Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010)
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• Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
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• Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law
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• Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras
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• Juniper: Recording Some Twitter Conversations
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• Stop looking at HN and go work that thing you promised yourself you'd work on
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-18

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

• DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
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• The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam
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• My positive experience as a woman in tech
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• Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening
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• Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator
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• Unauthorized code in Juniper ScreenOS allows for administrative access
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• Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt
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• Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
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• A visualisation of all of the money in the world
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• Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-17

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

• Phoenix 1.1 Released
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• ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
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• Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours
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• What You Believe Affects What You Achieve
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• Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
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• CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges
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• Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice
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• Why Python 3 Exists
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• Show HN: Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API
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• Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-16

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

• Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
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• Pebble Seizure Detect
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• Slack Platform Launch
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• LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
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• I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
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• Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform
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• The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
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• Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
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• Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
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• Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-15

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

• The sad economics of being famous on the internet
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• Onboarding teardowns
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• Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse
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• Plan to throw one away
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• -2000 Lines of Code
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• Bash Academy
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• Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared
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• Move Fast and Fix Things
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• Angular 2 Beta released
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• How Product Hunt really works
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-14

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

• UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
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• Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us
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• Graphics Drivers
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• Show HN: FuckFuckAdblock
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• Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
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• A Look into Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal
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• Koel: A personal music streaming server
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• How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
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• Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch
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• Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-13

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

• Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
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• Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
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• How I became a morning person
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• Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?
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• Stockfighter is live
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• Chris Lattner on Swift and dynamic dispatch
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• Files Are Hard
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• Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
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• Bullshit Startup Experiences
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• Avast’s man in the middle
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-12

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

• MTProto, the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram, is not IND-CCA secure
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• Dow and DuPont to merge
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• US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads
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• Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
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• How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over
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• Spideroak Kloak: Zero-Knowlege Social Networking
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• Stop using gzip
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• Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015
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• Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams
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• Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-11

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

• Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game
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• Atlassian gets IPO share price of $27
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• Japanese government dismantles freedom of the press
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• New Style of Police Training Aims to Produce Guardians, Not Warriors
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• YC Open Office Hours
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• Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
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• Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme
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• I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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• Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
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• Introducing OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-10

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

• Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments
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• Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
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• The Content Marketing Handbook
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• Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup
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• No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue
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• Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs
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• Don't bother creating a mobile app
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• The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation
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• Rust 1.5
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• April Zero v3
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-09

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

• What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks: Modeling a person from photos
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• Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
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• How to Get Good at Chess, Fast (2013)
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• Private key for *.xboxlive.com certificate disclosed
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• Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
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• Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?
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• Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
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• Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
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• Why Go Is Not Good
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• Cortana available on iOS and Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-08

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

• Raspberry Pi Zero vs. Elliott 405
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• Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, laser-cut Stainless Steel
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• After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6
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• Choosing an HTTP Status Code
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• Learn to play chess online
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• Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
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• We ditched Google Analytics
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• How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
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• Who Y Combinator Companies Want
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• Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-07

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

• The Starfighter Low-Level Tech Tree
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• Australian Geocoded national address data to be made openly available
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• E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'
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• Working with Binary Data in Python
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• France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi
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• D3.compose – compose reusable charts and components with D3.js
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• Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox
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• Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi
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• Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change
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• The Best Books I Read in 2015
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-06

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

• I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook
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• Pricing Programmers
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• Python: Generators, Coroutines, Native Coroutines and Async/Await
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• Why Japanese leaders attacked Pearl Harbor
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• Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze
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• Introducing d3-shape
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• Ghost Streets of Los Angeles
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• Base65536 – Unicode's answer to Base64
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• Building the Tamagotchi Singularity
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• Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-05

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

• Debugging Node.js in Production
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• TPP Threatens Security and Safety by Locking Down US Policy on Source Code Audit
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• KiCad 4.0.0 is Out
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• Advent of Code – solve a puzzle every day
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• Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming
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• Let's Encrypt Stats
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• Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox
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• The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires
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• Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
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• Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-04

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

• Jury Duty
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• Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
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• French Uber drivers have created their own Uber
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• The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
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• Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidance scheme?
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• Car turns driver in for hit-and-run
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• Open source software for developing world hospitals
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• Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox
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• Show HN: Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client
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• The Fall and Rise of SVG
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-03

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

• How to be like Steve Ballmer
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• Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images
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• The 99% (of startups)
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• Kickstarter is Debt
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• Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata
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• Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
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• Labella.js – placing labels on a timeline without overlap
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• HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
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• Swift is Open Source
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• Entering Public Beta
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-02

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

• Raspberry Pi Zero Hidden in an Xbox Controller
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• Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Computing
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• Three Stories
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• Django 1.9 Released
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• Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
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• Google sheep view
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• PHP 7 Released
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• Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released
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• Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
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• Signal Desktop
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-01

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

• An interesting data structure with search time O(sqrt n)
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• Someone left my Gmail in debug mode
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• Flexbox Froggy: A game for learning CSS flexbox
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• Next Generation Eclipse IDE
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• Linux Performance Analysis
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• This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University
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• Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
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• WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
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• Leaving the Mac App Store
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• A letter to our daughter
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-30

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

• Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?
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• The day I did something
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• Double paid traffic
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• Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design
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• What Web Can Do Today
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• Show HN: Something pointless I made
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• Raspberry Pi Zero – Conserve power and reduce draw to 30mA
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• The C standard formalized in Coq
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• The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection
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• A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted
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