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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-30

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

• Billion-year-old air reveals surprise about oxygen on ancient Earth
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• Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution
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• Habits of highly mathematical people
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• Obtaining Wildcard SSL Certificates from Comodo via Dangling Markup Injection
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• Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
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• A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell
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• Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
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• Love for TypeScript
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• America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems
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• Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-29

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

• Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B
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• Building a software-defined radio from scratch
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• Special projects
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• How Magic Leap Works – From Field of View to GPU
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• Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
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• The Inner Json Effect
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• We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
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• Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
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• Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released
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• After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-28

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

• Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995)
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• Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X
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• YC’s Summer Reading
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• The Rust Platform
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• Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys
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• The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User
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• Scipy Lecture Notes – Learn numerics, science, and data with Python
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• Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1B
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• The End of Gmane?
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• What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-27

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

• New attack that cripples HTTPS crypto works on Macs, Windows, and Linux
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• Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf]
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• Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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• LastPass autofill exploit
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• Philae Lander: “It’s time for me to say goodbye”
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• Salary transparency at Stack Overflow
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• Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
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• Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck
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• Twitter's Fucked
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• ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-26

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

• Log Structured Merge Trees
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• Ask HN: Why don't companies hire programmers for fewer hours per day?
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• Nexus phones now identify suspected spam callers
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• NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over
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• The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline
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• Why do so few humans kill themselves?
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• Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
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• Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
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• Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
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• Employee #1: Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-25

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

• Linux 4.7 Released
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• The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
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• Don't add your 2 cents
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• 9th Circuit: It’s a crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it
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• Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]
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• 64-bit ARM desktop hardware?
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• Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
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• UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end encryption
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• Introduction to Zipline: A Trading Library for Python
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• Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration: why we often hate new stuff
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-24

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

• Category Theory for the Sciences
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• Pokémon Go Is Teaching Americans the Metric System
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• Journalists confused an opinion piece for an alcohol-cancer study
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• Overview of all Amazon AWS APIs
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• The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation
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• Functional Programming Jargon
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• My biology paper in Science
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• With Launch of AU Passport, Africa Is Now Borderless
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• Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
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• Verizon 'agrees to $5B Yahoo deal'
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-23

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

• David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness
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• Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released
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• WeWork evicted a startup after it published a negative blog post about it
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• How Humble Bundle stops online fraud
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• Approaching Almost Any Machine Learning Problem
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• Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site
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• Twitter's Vine source code dump
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• Rust: The New LLVM
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• Wire open-sourced
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• How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-22

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

• Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners
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• Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
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• Zenzizenzizenzic
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• A practical security guide for web developers
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• Reddit is still in turmoil
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• Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder
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• Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life
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• Verizon nears deal to acquire Yahoo
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• Create React Apps with No Configuration
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• Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-21

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

• Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux
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• Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
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• Master Plan, Part Deux
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• A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
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• How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
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• Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
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• Show HN: Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
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• Why I’m Suing the US Government
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• Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
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• I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-20

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

• Cloudflare ReCAPTCHA De-Anonymizes Tor Users
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• How to Pitch Your Company
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• The rectangularness of countries
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• Stick a Fork in Ethereum
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• When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)
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• Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything
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• Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO
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• Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech
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• Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams
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• Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-19

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

• India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Demonstrator Successfully Flight Tested
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• The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
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• “I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”
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• Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?
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• The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting
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• ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech
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• John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)
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• Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design
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• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
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• Vim GIFs
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-18

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

• Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
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• Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
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• SpaceX Picks Rocket for First Relaunch
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• SoftBank Group Nears Deal to Buy ARM Holdings
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• Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS
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• What ever happened to Wordstar?
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• Vulkan Tutorial
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• Is full-time work bad for our brains?
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• D4 – Declarative Data-Driven Documents
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• Serverless Architectures
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-17

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

• Does 1+2+3+... Really Equal -1/12?
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• Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on Lisp
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• Is duckduckgo.com partially enforcing the “celebrity threesome injunction”?
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• Dissonant tones sound fine to people not raised on Western music
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• Destroy All Ifs – A Perspective from Functional Programming
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• How I Could Steal Money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft
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• Misfortune
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• A Wait-Free Stack
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• A Wait-Free Queue as Fast as Fetch-And-Add [pdf]
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• Passport Index 2016
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-16

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

• Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and \"Genius\" (2010)
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• Book of Proof – An introduction to the methods of proving mathematical theorems
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• AutoMicroFarm is now open-source
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• Robert Fano has died
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• Billions of Messages a Day – Yelp's Real-Time Data Pipeline
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• Coup attempt underway in Turkey
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• Sandstorm – An open source operating system for personal and private clouds
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• CloudFlare, We Have a Problem
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• Cron checker
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• J-core Open Processor
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-15

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

• Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer
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• Atlassian Acquires StatusPage
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• Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua
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• Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
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• JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook
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• Real-world HTTP/2: 400GB of images per day
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• Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
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• Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg
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• “Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB” [video]
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• HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-14

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

• React: Mixins Considered Harmful
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• A Single Div
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• Our Handbook is open source: here's why
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• Gimp 2.9.4 Released
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• The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code
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• Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from modern violins
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• Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon
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• Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
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• Django REST framework 3.4 Released
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• Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-13

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

• Jepsen: VoltDB 6.3
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• Google and LinkedIn announce massive land swap
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• Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana
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• A Course in Machine Learning
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• Nintendo Developer Portal
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• Startup Technical Diligence Is a Waste of Time
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• Highly Available Block Storage
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• Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation
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• The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
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• On Being a Black Man
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-12

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

• Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations
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• A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
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• Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
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• Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
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• Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
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• Shipping Rust code in Firefox
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• A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
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• Professional Software Development
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• Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
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• Pokemon Go – Permissions Update
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-11

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

• A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline
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• Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders
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• Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
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• How we're scammed into eating phony food
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• Elixir 1.3.1 released
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• Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
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• The axle count of trains in Switzerland must not be a multiple of 2^8
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• Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta
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• Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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• Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-10

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

• Replacing Google with microG
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• Mozilla Fathom: Find meaning in the web
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• Simple questions to help reduce AI hype
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• Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
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• The DOOM 3 Network Architecture (2006) [pdf]
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• Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework
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• Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
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• Rustls: new, modern TLS library written in Rust
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• Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
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• Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-09

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

• Judges Rely on a Flawed $2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars
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• Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
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• Amazon software engineer interview
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• Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs
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• Chasing Cats
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• Our nightmare on Amazon ECS
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• Linux debugging tools I love
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• Pinboard Turns Seven
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• Post Ghost Shutdown: An Open Letter to Twitter
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• Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-08

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

• Bee Bread
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• Investor Day
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• A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]
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• How Trees Calm Us Down
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• U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years
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• Release of IPython 5.0
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• Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol
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• Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
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• Corrode: C to Rust translator written in Haskell
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• Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-07

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

• Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us
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• Make the Web Work for Everyone
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• HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales
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• Wireworld
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• Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
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• Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
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• Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1
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• NASA Data Shows Toxic Air Threat Choking Indian Subcontinent
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• Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than $1B
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• Announcing Rust 1.10
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-06

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

• The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
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• Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?
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• Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
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• Excel: Error when CSV file starts with “I” and “D”
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• Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy (2015)
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• Unpleasant Design
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• Let’s make peer review scientific
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• Go’s march to low-latency GC
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• See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services
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• Rudolf Kálmán Has Died
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-05

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

• Show HN: OpenGL in super slow motion – visualising Z-buffering
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• How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov (2015)
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• Living, in Limbo
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• BSD vs. Linux (2005)
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• Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
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• How To Start An Amazon FBA Business
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• CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS
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• Freely available programming books
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• Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#
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• ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-04

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

• Brian Eno: We've been living happily with AI for thousands of years
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• Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification
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• Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)
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• Ruma, a Matrix homeserver written in Rust
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• ABI vs. API (2004)
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• Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
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• Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
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• Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
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• No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
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• fMRI software bugs could upend years of research
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-03

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

• Kubernetes 1.3 released
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• How AWS came to be
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• I2P: Invisible Internet Protocol
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• How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox
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• Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
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• Forestry.io
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• Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing
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• Why is Python slow
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• Rats free each other from cages (2011)
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• Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-02

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

• How 'Advantage Players' Game the Casinos
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• Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem
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• How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
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• OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation
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• Improving Color on the Web
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• Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
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• Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
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• Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?
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• MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)
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• PostgreSQL Exercises
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-01

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

• StartEncrypt considered harmful today
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• Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder Case
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• The Fining of Black America
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• DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo
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• Servo Nightly Builds Available
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• Show HN: Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React
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• Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively
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• Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules
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• Google collects metadata from Android phones
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-30

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

• Lossless compression with Brotli
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• Making open source data more available
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• Ten Year Old Girl Gets Accepted as Paris Innovation Fellow
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• Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys – Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption
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• Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax
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• Ways to maximize your cognitive potential
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• Employee 1: Yahoo
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• Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?
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• A Tragic Loss
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• Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more
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