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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Shitty Products Survive and Thrive
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• Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects
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• Glider, Mac Classic game, open-sourced
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• 18F: CSS coding style guide
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• Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?
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• The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks
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• Making 20% Time Work
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• Open-Sourced Logos
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• Get HTTPS for free
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• China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tails 2.0 is out
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• Announcing TypeScript 1.8 Beta
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• Sit/Stand Desk: IKEA Skarsta Review
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• The Best Teacher I Never Had
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• How I fixed Atom
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• Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)
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• Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative
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• Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please
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• The Command Line Murders
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• San Francisco Bubble
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out
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• Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted
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• GitHub Outage
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• Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
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• Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery
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• Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
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• The result would be a catastrophe (1985)
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• MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
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• Fraternal Order of Police Data Dump
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• Facebook is closing Parse
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• From Python to Lua: Why We Switched
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• Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
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• “No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Debt Collectors
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• A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together
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• Glittering Blue
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• Voxel.css
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• Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer
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• Why are submarines demagnetized?
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• Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
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• Request For Research: Basic Income
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Simplifying Docker on OS X
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• Multiple security vulnerabilities in Rails
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• CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
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• Marvin Minsky dies at 88
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• Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures
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• Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
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• Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
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• It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
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• Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++
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• Fellowship V2
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Erlang looks like it does
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• World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
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• Things every React.js beginner should know
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• GoQt
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• The China GPS shift problem
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• Use JSON files as if they are Python modules
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• Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government”
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• Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
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• The Villain of CRISPR
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• I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Milligram: A minimalist CSS framework
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• You Need More Lumens
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• Favico.js – Animated favicons
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• I Built Myself a 16x20-Inch Camera in 10 Hours
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• Include-what-you-use: Clang tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files
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• Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA
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• Postgres Query Plan Visualization
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• MRI Scans of a person's brain
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• Virginia Tech Professor Spent $147k to Help Uncover the Flint Water Scandal
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• Amazon's customer service backdoor
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• NSA Chief Stakes Out Pro-Encryption Position, in Contrast to FBI
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• Number of legal Go positions computed
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• ES6 Cheatsheet
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• The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
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• Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
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• Advice for companies with less than 1 year of runway
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• Trello clone with Phoenix and React – 5-part tutorial
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• Launch, Land, Repeat
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• WeKan: Open-Source Meteor Kanban
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• T-Shirts Unravelled
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why didn't France adopt the longbow like England did?
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• Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom
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• Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones?
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• Announcing Rust 1.6
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• CA assembly member introduces encryption ban disguised as human trafficking bill
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• Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos
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• Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ
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• Google's Free Deep Learning Course
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• Why I quit my dream job at Ubisoft
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• Unikernels are unfit for production
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A free shipping mystery
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• How do bank payments actually work?
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• TorFlow
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• It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator
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• Federal cops gets pulled over by TN cops, car illegally searched
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• Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation
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• The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next
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• Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it
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• Docker Acquires Unikernel Systems as It Looks Beyond Containers
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• AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 2^74207281-1 is Prime
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• India's telecom regulator cracks down on Facebook for its Free Basics campaign [pdf]
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• Clojure 1.8
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• Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
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• Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10
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• Scrapy Tips from the Pros
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• The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong
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• The NICAM Codec replacement project
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• Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
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• Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
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• Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
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• Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years
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• Did European Court Just Outlaw “Massive Monitoring of Communications” in Europe?
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• “Subject: Urgent Warning”
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• Riemann – A network monitoring system
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• The Rails Doctrine
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• How Elon Musk Stole My Car
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• Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine
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• Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Always Docker?
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• Introducing Apex – Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
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• I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
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• WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
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• Tech faces hour of reckoning as fundraising drops, layoffs rise
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• Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
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• Netboot
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• SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space
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• Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments
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• Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Scalable C – Writing Large-Scale Distributed C
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• Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all
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• Why London Underground stopped people walking up the escalators
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• Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted
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• Life is Short
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• An introduction to Machine Learning
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• Richard Stallman on Data Autonomy [video]
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• Parsing 10TB of Metadata, 26M Domain Names and 1.4M SSL Certs for $10 on AWS
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• The Unreasonable Reputation of Neural Networks
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• Read the TPP
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A game made with CSS/HTML only
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• You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two
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• Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin
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• A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
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• Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months
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• 13k BTC, 300k LTC Stolen from Cryptsy Exchange
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• How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans
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• Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop
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• Iceland sentences bankers to prison for their part in the 2008 collapse
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• Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Programming with Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally
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• Why Kubernetes isn't using Docker's libnetwork
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• A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement
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• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
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• There are no secure smartphones
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• Amazon Has Just Registered to Sell Ocean Freight
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• Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London
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• Wikipedia Turns 15
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• An open letter of gratitude to GitHub
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• Before Growth
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April
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• Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk
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• Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law
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• A Canvas Made of Pixels
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• When to join a startup
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• Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
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• OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777
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• Yahoo Releases the Largest-Ever Machine Learning Dataset for Researchers
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• 10th Anniversary of JQuery
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• Dear GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The pirate game
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• Ansible 2.0 released
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• So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
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• Voxel Quest January 2016 Update
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• Docker for Beginners
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• Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
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• Lodash 4.0.0 is out
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• The pirate game
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• Project Rider – A C# IDE
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• ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• People Call Me Aaron
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• Superpowers, a collaborative HTML5 2D and 3D game maker, is now open-source
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• Aaron Swartz died three years ago today
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• Shutting down persona.org in November 2016
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• A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS
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• Two Weeks of Rust
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• Google recommends inlining small CSS
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• SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls
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• Code that will break in Python 4
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• Stripe now supports ACH payments
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Intel CPU Bugs of 2015 and Implications for the Future
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• Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU
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• YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks
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• Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
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• David Bowie Has Died
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• Open Guide to Equity Compensation
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• IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes
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• Why NSA Surveillance Scares Me
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• iOS 9.3 Preview
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• TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber
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• Google Genomics: store, process, explore and share genomic data
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• Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency
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• An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff
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• Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode
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• Tesla Model S can now park itself
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• The Trouble with the TPP, Day 5: Rights Holders “Shall” vs. Users “May”
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• Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
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• Running costs for running a web app
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• Amazon is relatively new to the job of running an app store
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla
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• How I Built a Side Project
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• YC Updates and Additions
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• A Guide to Seed Fundraising
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• 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved
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• Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger
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• Why I Write Games in C
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• Hacker Monthly Shuts Down
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• Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware
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• Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The internet has made defensive writers of us all
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• Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
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• Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
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• RemixOS – Android for the desktop
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• T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’
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• How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
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• The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC
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• How to C in 2016
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• T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fuck Are You, EFF?'
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• Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Three Years as a One-Man Startup
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• Evernote’s 5% problem offers a cautionary lesson to tech companies
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• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?
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• SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy
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• Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India
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• CodeReddit: Cover UI for Reddit at Work
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• Segway robot
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• Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error
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• PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
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• Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7%
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
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• Magic+
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• Kodak resurrects Super 8
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• Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
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• This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday
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• Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework
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• Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)
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• Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order
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• Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
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• Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar
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• New Adventures for Elm
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• Please do not delete this commented-out version
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• Dell Computers Has Been Hacked
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• Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
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• Working fewer hours would make us more productive
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• Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL
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• Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
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• Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal?
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• Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors
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• IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment
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• Google, HP, Oracle Join RISC-V – Open-source processor core gains traction
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• Peter Naur has died
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• Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
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• Tor Anonymity: Things Not to Do
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• Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.1.5
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• G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
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• Angular 2 versus React
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• T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
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• Bing Goes Full-On Censorship in English Search Results Within China
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• Income inequality is not the problem, it's a symptom
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• Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
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• IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
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• Taco Bell Programming (2010)
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• Netflix is on Fire
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• Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone
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• The $10 Echo
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• How Paul Graham Gets It Wrong in “Economic Inequality”
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reverse Engineering the GoPro Cineform Codec
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• Writing an OS in Rust: Remap the Kernel
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• Python moves to GitHub
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• Show HN: GPU text rendering with vector textures
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• Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
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• BitTorrent file system
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• Disque 1.0 RC1 is out
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• The Refragmentation
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• Economic Inequality
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• A Response to Paul Graham’s Article on Income Inequality
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reverse Engineering for Beginners
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• Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
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• Joyce K. Reynolds, co-editor of RFCs, has died
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• } // good to go
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• Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit
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• Swift: Commonly Rejected Changes
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• The Website Obesity Crisis
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• Clojure 2015 Year in Review
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• Elixir 1.2.0 Released
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-12-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Do the math on your stock options
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• Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition
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• The Amazon Whisperer (2013)
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• Permission to Fail
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• Android-x86 dev offers $50k for proof of contribution by Kickstarted ConsoleOS
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• Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]
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• The “Chad” bug
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• Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
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• NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated
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• A Requiem for Ian Murdock
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