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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
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• Why do so few people major in computer science?
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• Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor
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• MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
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• Someone forged my resignation letter
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• Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company
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• How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
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• SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold
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• Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
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• Node v8.0.0 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 29, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online
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• A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated the Ottomans
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• How to Sleep
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• A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats
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• “They Basically Reset My Brain”
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• Coffee from California
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• Ask HN: What are some examples of highly successful single-person businesses?
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• Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
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• Unicode is hard
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• Browse Against the Machine
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 28, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
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• What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (2008)
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• A Year of Google and Apple Maps
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• Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1
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• Our understanding of the way the body handles salt may be wrong
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• View Counting at Reddit
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• Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics
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• A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (2010) [pdf]
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• Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
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• Growing a Compiler (2009)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 27, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
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• Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
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• How to Report a Bug to Microsoft
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• AMD Announces Ryzen Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up to DDR4-4000
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• Apple Is Working on a Dedicated Chip to Power AI on Devices
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• PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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• Video Analysis of Erdogan's security detail brawl in Washington
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• AlphaGo's next move
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• Too many prisons make people worse
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• British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 26, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pix2code: Generating Code from a Graphical User Interface Screenshot
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• Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore
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• Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
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• Twilio Functions – Public Beta
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• Chrome Won
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• Writing a Fast JSON Parser
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• It's Never Too Early to Fire
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• Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++
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• Npm v5.0.0 released
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• NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 25, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity
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• Workspaces for Mac 1.0
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• Readable Clojure
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• MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud
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• Enough with the microservices
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• DevOps is a culture, not a role
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• How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?
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• Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux
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• Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
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• Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 24, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Who Owns England?
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• Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
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• Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015)
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• Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux
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• Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
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• NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
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• Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
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• Little Things I Like to Do with Git
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• Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices
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• The largest Git repo
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 23, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• When TV Logos Were Physical Objects
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• Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
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• The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo
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• Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8
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• New Surface Pro
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• I’ve become worse at programming
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• Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)
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• The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet
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• Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
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• 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 22, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2016)
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• Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
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• Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin
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• Linux utils that you might not know
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• GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API
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• How a 64k intro is made
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• HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
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• Get your loved ones off Facebook
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• U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to 'patent trolls'
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• How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 21, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Design principle: IKEA effect
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• Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)
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• The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D
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• We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment
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• Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
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• TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability
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• Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
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• A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 microprocessor
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• Ask HN: What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?
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• A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP
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• Bootsnap: Optimizing Ruby App Boot Time
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• Introducing zetcd
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• Hacker News Readers as Progressive Web Apps
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• 42-inch yacht still hoping to become the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic
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• Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime
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• Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt
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• Engineering management lessons (2014)
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• Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulated by government
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• Scott Gilbertson: ‘Kill Google AMP before it kills the web’
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An Indian village addicted to chess
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• Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes
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• One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
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• America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
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• Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page
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• Ask HN: Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?
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• Writing correct lock-free and distributed stateful systems in Rust, with TLA+
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• Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
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• Let's Encrypt is down
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• Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Elf Hello World
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• Google I/O 2017
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• JSON Feed
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• A Case of Stolen Source Code
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• Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud
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• Kotlin Is Better
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• Transform Data by Example [video]
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• Swift is like Kotlin
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• Let them paste passwords
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• PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus
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• Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End
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• Robots that learn
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• The Boring Company FAQ
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• Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium
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• Machine Learning
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• A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
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• Chelsea Manning released from prison
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• Google.ai
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• Android now supports Kotlin
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Two years of Rust
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• Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries
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• AI Playbook
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• Web Developer Security Checklist
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• DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign
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• Not Hotdog App
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• “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
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• My Family’s Slave
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• Maru OS – Your phone is your PC
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• Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags
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• Lessons from last week’s cyberattack
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• FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed
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• Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi
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• Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
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• Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
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• Why Amazon is eating the world
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• Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police
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• Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb
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• Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by ‘WannaCry’ attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Computer Games That Teach Assembly Language
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• Reverse-Engineering the Intel Management Engine
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• The Right to Read (1997)
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• The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
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• Netflix confirms it is blocking rooted/unlocked Android devices
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• Space-Efficient Construction of Compressed Indexes in Deterministic Linear Time
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• Moom removed from sale due to patent violation claim
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• Intel AMT Checker for Linux
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• Badger – A fast key-value store written natively in Go
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• Eigentechno – Principal Component Analysis applied to electronic music
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Europe is living under Microsoft’s digital killswitch
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• Guaranteed Minimum What?
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• Treble: A modular base for Android
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• 110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
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• Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm
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• Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
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• I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour
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• Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
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• Rejection Letter
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• Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Noun Project – Icons for Everything
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• Startup Graveyard – History Shouldn't Have to Repeat Itself
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• Windows 10 on ARM
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• Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says
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• Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
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• Recovering from Burnout and Depression
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• How to shoot on iPhone 7
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• Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules
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• A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
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• Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Britecharts: D3.js based charting library of components
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• Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database
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• A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
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• Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
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• A plan for open source software maintainers
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• Interactive Mind Map for learning
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• Keylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver
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• Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem
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• Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)
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• Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thunderbird’s Future Home
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• JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
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• Making a Game in Rust
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• CPU Utilization is Wrong
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• A novel approach to neural machine translation
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• Opera is Reborn
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• CockroachDB 1.0
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• Visual Studio for Mac
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• Solar Roof
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• Beware of Transparent Pixels
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist
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• Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an overrated ideology
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• Repl.it – React Native mobile apps in browser
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• Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc
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• The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)
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• BBR, the new kid on the TCP block
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• Get started making music
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• Amazon Echo Show
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• SQL Notebook
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• President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book
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• I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users
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• Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission
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• Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
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• Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)
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• Things to Use Instead of JSON Web Tokens
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• Ask HN: What's your working day like?
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• Gallery of programming UIs
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• Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
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• Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ODrive Project – Using inexpensive brushless motors in high performance robotics
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• Ways to Read More Books
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• Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
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• Open-source chip RISC-V to take on closed x86, ARM CPUs
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• JMAP: A better way to email (2014)
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• Random – Probability, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes (2015)
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• The great British Brexit robbery
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• My Struggles with Rust
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• Vue HN 2.0
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• Wikipedia has cancer
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy
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• Total.js Messenger – A small alternative to Slack
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• Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows
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• The Horror in the Standard Library
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• Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms
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• Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
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• Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
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• Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
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• Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
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• Recent version of Handbrake download infected with malware
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thieves drain 2FA-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol
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• Build yourself a Linux
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• How Stripe teaches employees to code
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• Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities
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• My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year
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• Stop the Daily Standup Meeting
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• Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surveillance
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• The Patek Philippe Caliber 89 and Horology’s Easter Problem
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• Build Yourself a Redux
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• The Rust Libz Blitz
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Get into VR
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• Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal its tech
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• FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
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• How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]
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• Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress
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• Coinbase adds support for Litecoin
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• Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
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• How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So
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• Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
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• I tried Haskell for 5 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)
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• Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff
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• International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
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• MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console
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• Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
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• Root – Programmable bank account for software developers
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• SCOTUS Rejects Guilty Until Proven Innocent – Can't Keep Money from the Innocent
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• Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient
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• Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
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• Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states
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• Programming as a Way of Thinking
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• Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key
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• The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated
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• Escalation of Privilege Advisory
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• Cap'n Proto 0.6 released – 2.5 years of improvements
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• NeoVim 0.2.0 released
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• SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today
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• Introducing Surface Laptop
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• CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Read Mathematics
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• “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)
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• Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014)
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• Y Combinator When No One Cared
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• SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video]
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• Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole
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• Esoteric programming paradigms
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
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• Getting Started with Headless Chrome
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• Moneyball teams
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Invisible War for the Open Internet
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• Rust your ARM microcontroller
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• Award-Winning Nautilus Enters Rough Waters
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• Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers
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• How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]
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• How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
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• Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons of gold in New York
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• National Park Maps
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• Why Use Postgres?
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• First introduction to LaTeX
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