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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-30

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

• Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]
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• Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations
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• Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]
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• Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity
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• F* – An ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification
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• The meaning of AMP
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• Firefox takes a bite out of the canvas ‘super cookie’
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• Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python
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• Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
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• Do you need a VPN?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-29

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

• I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos
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• Orchid: a new surveillance-free layer on top of the existing Internet
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• An anti-aging strategy that works in mice is about to be tested in humans
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• One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
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• I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds
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• Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
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• When did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
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• Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel [pdf]
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• DOJ: Billionaire pharma owner fueled the opioid epidemic with bribery scheme
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• AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-28

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

• Alan Kay on Lisp
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• IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture will speed up computers
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• Comcast Tries to Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband
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• Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit
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• Sorting Algorithms Revisualized
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• Public Key Pinning Being Removed from Chrome
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• Reason 3
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• Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets
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• Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, Variation [video]
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• Crystal in Production: Diploid
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-27

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

• Learning a hierarchy
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• New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
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• Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores
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• Georgia election server wiped after lawsuit filed
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• Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
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• Elixir web development 101: collaborative todolist with realtime updates
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• Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant
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• The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
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• Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%
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• Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-26

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

• The geometry of Islamic art becomes a game
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• How Unreal Renders a Frame
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• ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver
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• Reverse engineering of competitor’s software cost company big
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• Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
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• I have no side code projects to show you
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• Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects
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• Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes
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• “Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
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• Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-25

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

• Gmail Launches Add-ons
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• How we found rogerkver’s obfuscated wallet private key
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• How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
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• The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons
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• Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
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• U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits
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• Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
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• Scipy 1.0 released
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• Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples
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• Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-24

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

• Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
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• United States Census Bureau APIs
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• Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
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• SSH Escape Sequences
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• Introduction to web scraping with Python
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• Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers
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• Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011)
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• Saying Goodbye to Firebug
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• Speech Recognition Is Not Solved
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• If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-23

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

• Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol
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• Chevy Bolt: the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle
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• Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
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• Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
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• Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly
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• Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
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• Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
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• Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
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• Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
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• Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-22

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

• Avoiding Startup Tarpits
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• Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged
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• How Retailers Use Personalized Prices
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• Interview with Susan Fowler
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• Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013)
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• Getting the Most Out of Sqlite3 with Python
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• Tech workers worry about age discrimination at age 40: Study
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• C++ Tips of the Week
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• After the end of the startup era
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• A newly discovered moon tunnel
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-21

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

• IPv6 Buddy
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• Mastodon 2.0
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• The First PS4 Kernel Exploit: Adieu
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• “How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul”
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• Turning on Project Loon in Puerto Rico
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• Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design
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• Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
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• Linux ransomware in the wild
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• Sugar alters hormones and metabolism, sets stage for obesity and diabetes
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• The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-20

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

• My Journey to a Better Language Learning System
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• F-Droid 1.0 released
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• Robert Scoble and Me
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• University of Chicago Graduate Students Vote to Unionize
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• Writing a Bootloader
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• Let’s write a simple Kernel (2014)
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• Plain emails not only save time but work better (2016)
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• HolyJit: A New Hope
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• Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
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• Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-19

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

• Vim after 15 Years
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• Blockchains explained visually (part 1 of 2)
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• It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads
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• Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says
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• Why Ruby App Servers Break on MacOS High Sierra
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• Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
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• Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released
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• DevDocs API Documentation
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• Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fighting tool to the public
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• MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-18

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

• Just own the damn robots
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• Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs
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• MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill
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• Why we switched from Python to Go
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• Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard
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• Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
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• Documenting the Web together
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• AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
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• 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
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• New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-17

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

• The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
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• Falling through the KRACKs
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• The war to sell you a mattress
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• Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017
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• Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens
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• Adding Kubernetes support to the Docker platform
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• Flatiron School settles for operating without license, employment/salary claims
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• How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools
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• Introducing Surface Book 2
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• Show HN: Metaballs
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-16

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

• Essential C
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• Efficient pagination of a SQL table with 100M records
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• I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
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• Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
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• Python Graph Gallery
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• Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse
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• You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy
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• ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
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• A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly
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• Keyboard latency
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-15

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

• How JavaScript works: Event loop and the rise of Async programming
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• Using the Web Audio API to Make a Modem
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• The software engineering notebook
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• Recompiler: Porting Xbox360 Executables to Windows
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• Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques
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• My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
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• US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
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• Why physicists still use Fortran
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• Uber and Lyft have reduced mass transit use and added traffic in major cities
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• What is Nix and why you should try it
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-14

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

• ProseMirror 1.0
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• ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
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• Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
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• Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch
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• Open Source Game Clones
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• The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms
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• IGN acquires Humble Bundle
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• Coding Interview Cheatsheet
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• Call for help: fund GIMP development and Libre animation
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• The impossible dream of USB-C
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-13

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

• An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
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• Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code
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• John Carmack's Keynote at Oculus 4 Live Stream [video]
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• Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
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• TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
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• Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias
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• What If We Put Warnings on IoT Devices?
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• Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation
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• Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U
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• An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-12

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

• Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX
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• Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
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• Competitive Self-Play
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• Please take care of my plant
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• A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command
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• Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going
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• Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update
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• Exploding Git Repositories
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• Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’
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• Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-11

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

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners
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• Pencil and Paper Games
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• Google Data Studio
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• The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case
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• Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Been Breached
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• Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?
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• Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music
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• Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
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• The Depression Thing
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• RIP the Broccoli Tree
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-10

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

• Librem 5 Phone Funded
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• Dangers of CSV Injection
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• First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe
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• What happened when I opened a restaurant in Portland
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• 150 days of living and coding in a van
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• OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics
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• iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
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• CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens
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• The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
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• Disabling the Intel Management Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-09

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

• On the devastating effects of a year in space
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• Tensorflow sucks
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• Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
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• Java at Alibaba [pdf]
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• Reverse Engineering MacOS High Sierra Supplemental Update
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• Debian 9.2 released
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• Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
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• Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you
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• Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
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• Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-08

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

• 'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
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• A Comparison of Four Algorithms Textbooks (2016)
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• A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder
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• A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor
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• London Cutaways
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• Show HN: A platform for sharing DIY solar projects
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• Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger
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• No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
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• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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• Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find (written in Rust)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-07

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

• I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study
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• Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
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• Security.txt
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• Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue
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• Hazelcast 3.8.3
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• Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry
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• A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money
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• Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit
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• Sorting Visualizations
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• Five minute guide to better typography
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-06

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

• Best CPUs for Workstations: 2017
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• URL to PDF Microservice
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• Modern B-Tree Techniques (2011)
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• I/O Access Methods for Linux
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• Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
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• Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
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• iOS 11's Misleading \"Off-Ish\" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
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• Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets
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• AIM will shut down after 20 years
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• The Land of Lisp
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-05

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

• An Update on Firefox Containers
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• Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says
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• Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
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• Google Pixel Buds are wireless earbuds that translate conversations in real-time
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• WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
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• Colony: A platform for open organizations
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• Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child
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• PostgreSQL 10 Released
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• A Pre-History of Slashdot
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• If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-04

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

• Matcha – A framework for building iOS and Android apps in Go
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• Breast-cancer death rate drops almost 40 percent
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• Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
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• Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows
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• Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
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• Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
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• Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
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• Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser
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• Interactive Vim tutorial
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• Keybase launches encrypted Git
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-03

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

• ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network
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• Y Combinator's Founding Principles
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• What's been wrought using the Piece Table? (2014)
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• Google and Facebook Have Failed Us
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• Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway
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• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
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• Facebook Lies
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• How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
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• Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps
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• Paul S. Otellini has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-02

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

• Interesting Codebases
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• Ask HN: Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al?
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• Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)
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• Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React
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• Facebook Blocks Chinese Billionaire Who Tells Tales of Corruption
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• Text Editor: Data Structures
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• IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
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• Diminishing returns of static typing
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• Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-01

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

• Without Power, Puerto Rico Is Cash Only
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• Toward a Predictive Theory of Depression
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• 3D crosswalk in Iceland helps slow down speeding motorists
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• Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated
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• HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)
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• Vladimir Voevodsky has died
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• Never Completed Game
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• Cheatsheet for the modern JavaScript
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• EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning
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• I wanted to understand why racists hated me, so I befriended Klansmen
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-30

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

• Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
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• Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?
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• Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library
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• Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google Play after court order
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• Photos of Soviet control rooms
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• The SEC has charged two initial coin offerings with defrauding investors
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• VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”
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• Learn Blockchains by Building One
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• Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel
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• Wozniak and Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it
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