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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-30

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

• The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020
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• Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 1
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• Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
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• Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
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• The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source
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• Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
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• US government to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol (2015)
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• Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government
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• Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016
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• China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-29

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

• Nintendo releases original Zelda design docs
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• A Guide to Deep Learning
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• Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014)
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• UDP vs TCP
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• Why I close pull requests
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• Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 2
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• Chrome browser for businesses
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• What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics?
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• Rust is mostly safety
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• Technical report on DNC hack [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-28

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

• Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (2006)
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• Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case
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• The best board games of 2016
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• Top-down learning path: Machine Learning for Software Engineers
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• WebRTC: the future of web games
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• About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages
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• Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]
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• Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in European countries
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• Rust is more than safety
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• Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-27

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

• The farmer who built her own broadband
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• μWWVB: A Tiny WWVB Station
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• How to find size of an array in C without sizeof
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• Show HN: Learn how to build electronics with monthly kits
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• A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing
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• FreeDOS 1.2
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• 33rd Chaos Communication Congress Livestreams
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• No tipping means better business
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• Library-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwide
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• Carrie Fisher has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-26

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

• Basics of Making a Rootkit – From syscall to hook
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• LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was
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• 'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
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• Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
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• Advent of Code Solutions
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• Reflecting on Haskell in 2016
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• Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey
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• Rogue One – An Engineering Ethics Story
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• HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
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• The little book about OS development
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-25

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

• Ask HN: What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?
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• 8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year
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• Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old
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• Ruby 2.4.0 Released
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• U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote
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• A practical introduction to functional programming (2013)
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• House Judiciary Committee Encryption Working Group Year-End Report [pdf]
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• Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery
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• ThreadTone, halftone images made of thread
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• Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-24

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

• Why time management is ruining our lives
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• Principles
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• Hedge Fund Math: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
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• Things I learnt making a fast website
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• Writing web applications using only the Go Standard Library
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• “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar
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• Deep Learning Enables You to Hide Screen When Your Boss Is Approaching
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• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1997)
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• Cyanogen services shutting down
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• Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-23

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

• OpenWrt and LEDE to re-merge
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• Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains
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• Announcing Rust 1.14
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• How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
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• Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
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• LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
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• Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
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• Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
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• Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust
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• Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-22

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

• A Git catastrophe cleaned up
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• Four years with Rust
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• Why Are Ultrasound Machines So Expensive?
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• Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
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• Update on Multi-Process Firefox
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• Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
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• To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power
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• Top Python libraries of 2016
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• Why the Elixir language has great potential
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• Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-21

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

• No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
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• AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse
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• Learning from a Year of Security Breaches
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• 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
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• Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
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• Practical Deep Learning for Coders
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• Why are browsers so slow?
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• How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities
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• UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data
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• Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-20

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

• One Way to Improve Your Coding
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• Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
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• Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue
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• Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac
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• Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil
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• Blue Ocean
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• Modern garbage collection
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• Excessive load on NTP servers
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• Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
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• How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-19

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

• Making SQL Server run on Linux
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• Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
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• Gimli Glider
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• Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work
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• The Crystal Programming Language
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• Skip Lists Done Right
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• Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdrawn?
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• Building Jarvis
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• Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch 
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• So you want to expose Go on the Internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-18

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

• Shopify has paid over $300k in security exploit bounties
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• Haiku booting in UEFI mode
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• Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas
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• God's Number is 20 (2010)
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• Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies
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• Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project?
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• How Unix made it to the top
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• Maya – Python Datetimes for Humans
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• Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor
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• Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-17

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

• Stroustrup's Rule and Layering Over Time in Rust
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• MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval
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• Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader
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• Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested
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• Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density
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• How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
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• SQL Server on Linux public preview
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• Germany's New Crowdfunded Train
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• Galileo navigation satellite system goes live
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• Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-16

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

• Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming
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• Amazon Restaurants
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• GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
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• World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
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• Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent
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• Google Web Designer (2013)
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• Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective
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• The Idea of Lisp
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• Show HN: Hire an Oldster
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• I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-15

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

• Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
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• Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?
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• Visual Studio Code 1.8
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• Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
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• Starting a real business
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• One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers
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• Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
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• GodBolt: Enter C, get Assembly
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• The Talk
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• German research institutions boycott Elsevier
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-14

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

• A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X
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• Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way
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• Sharing National Security Letters with the Public
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• Steve Wozniak Was My Computer Teacher in 1995
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• New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
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• AI Programmer’s Bookshelf
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• A Git query language
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• CHVote: Open-source e-voting system from Switzerland
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• I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years
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• Kickstarter open-sources their Android and iOS apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-13

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

• Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?
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• YC's Winter Reading List
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• How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage
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• Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
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• Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
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• Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
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• The Rule of Silence (2006)
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• Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor
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• Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
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• Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-12

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

• Spaced repetition
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• Things You Notice When You Quit the News
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• uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge
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• All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now available free online (2014)
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• What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
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• Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change
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• Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
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• Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z
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• VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim
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• Hyper 1.0.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-11

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

• Neurogenesis linked to aerobic exercise
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• Tips for Self-Learning Programming
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• The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
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• Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)
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• Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field
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• Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
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• German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking software is legal
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• Why we chose Vue.js over React
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• Run Unix processes inside your browser
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• Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-10

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

• Intake – American's largest psychiatric chain
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• Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
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• AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU patch
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• Developers’ side projects
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• Ask HN: Maybe I kind of suck as a programmer – how do I supercharge my work?
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• Let your kids lose: Success inhibits preschoolers’ ability to trust
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• Why I'm Making Python 2.8
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• LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown
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• My Pixel has a manufacturing defect
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• Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-09

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

• Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
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• Belarus finally bans Tor
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• UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power
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• On Getting Older in Tech
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• Linux kernel maintainer says no to AMDGPU patch
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• I am not a self-made man
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• Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
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• Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
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• Bose Hearphones
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• De-Googleify Internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-08

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

• A Guide to the Breads of India
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• Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
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• Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors
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• Talks that changed the way I think about programming
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• LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip
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• Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013)
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• 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience
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• Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
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• 1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856
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• John Glenn has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-07

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

• Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
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• How to Ship Side Projects
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• It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
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• Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half
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• Saving Data: Reducing the Size of App Updates by 65%
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• Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire
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• Pebble's next step
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• Announcing TypeScript 2.1
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• Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
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• Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-06

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

• Why does calloc exist?
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• Secure ROM extraction on iPhone 6S
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• My Favorite Books of 2016
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• How to not fuck up your manufacturing startup
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• Google Trusted Contacts
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• The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
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• Write a Shell in C (2015)
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• I'm giving up on PGP
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• Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
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• Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-05

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

• Data Science: CSCI E-109 Publication Listing
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• PouchDB, the JavaScript Database That Syncs
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• Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio
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• Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible with News
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• OpenAI Universe
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• Azure Jupyter Notebooks
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• Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab
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• Amazon Go
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• Dear JavaScript
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• Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-04

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

• Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril
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• A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (2013) [pdf]
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• Practical Common Lisp (2005)
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• The world’s worst air force
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• Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
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• How I Wrote the Screenplay for “Arrival” and What I Learned Doing It
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• Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released
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• Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions'
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• The FBI Can Now Legally Hack Everywhere Around the World
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• Disassembling Sublime Text
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-03

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

• Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video]
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• Redis 4.0 RC1 is out
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• Jq – Work with JSON on the command line
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• One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people
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• Reflections on Rusting Trust
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• Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines
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• Leaflet: An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
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• Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people
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• Ask HN: Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?
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• This AI Boom Will Also Bust
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-02

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

• \"Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF'd in short term\"
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• “AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”
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• Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
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• My Google Internship
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• Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
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• Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’
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• Htop explained
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• I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud
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• Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
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• Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-01

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

• FDA Agrees to New Trials for MDMA as Relief for PTSD Patients
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• How to Hide $400M
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• How Google Is Challenging AWS
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• Zero Cost Abstractions
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• Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
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• Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M
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• How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
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• Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
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• AngelList acquires Product Hunt
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-30

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

• What’s the Second Job of a Startup CEO?
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• Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released
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• Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Private
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• Show HN: Anycomplete
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• Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser
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• Oh right, about those LEDs
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• Svelte – A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules
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• More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
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• Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
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• Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
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