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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming
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• Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
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• Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
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• Pandas 1.0
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• Sun's surface seen in new detail
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• Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
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• Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
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• Monoliths Are the Future
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• Not everyone has an internal monologue
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• Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
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• U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams
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• WireGuard is now in Linus' tree
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• A Graph of Related Subreddits
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• Off-Facebook activity
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• Godot 3.2
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• Being a Noob
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• Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
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• Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia
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• Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Disk Prices on Amazon
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• A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript
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• What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
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• Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
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• The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
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• Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
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• My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
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• Ted versus The Media Lab [video]
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• Microsoft Application Inspector
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• How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
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• GNU Recutils
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• Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack
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• “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
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• Elixir v1.10
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• Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
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• Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent
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• Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
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• An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
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• CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste
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• New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market
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• Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?
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• Am I Unique?
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• The Infinite Loop That Wasn't
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• South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon
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• SQLite Is Serverless
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• Responsive Pixel Art
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• In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
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• Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy
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• Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser
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• Layoffs hit Quora
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• How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
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• MirageJS: An API mocking library for frontend development
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• Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
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• List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
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• Google backtracks on search results design
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• Linode launches free DDoS protection
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• The Era of the Trident Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pantone 448 C
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• Why I Procrastinate (2019)
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• What happened to Mint?
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• 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones
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• ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)
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• My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
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• 23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline
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• Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web
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• We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
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• Clayton Christensen has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
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• Float Toy
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• I2C in a Nutshell
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• 250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web
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• Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework
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• City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
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• The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org
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• Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
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• “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
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• Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Learn Awk? (2016)
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• Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
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• How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study
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• Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
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• Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology
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• DuckDuckGo Traffic
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• Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
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• U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
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• Terry Jones has died
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• TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My story as a self-taught AI researcher
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• FreeBSD is an amazing operating system
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• Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
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• A small DIY air purifier
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• Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
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• Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
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• WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
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• How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy
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• Every Google result now looks like an ad
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• Wine 5.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How is search so bad? A case study
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• Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?
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• My FOSS Story
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• BMW Connected Apps Protocol
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• Ask HN: Do you ever contact people who have had a positive impact on you?
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• A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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• Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month
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• How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File
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• Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
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• The Internet of Beefs
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign
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• Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
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• Lisping at JPL (2002)
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• Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes
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• C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master
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• The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
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• Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open
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• Show HN: A set of standard document templates
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• Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration
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• Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines
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• Startup Ideas 2020
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• PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee
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• I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS
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• Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
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• HTTP static server one-liners
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• Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink
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• Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
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• Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images
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• Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Christopher Tolkien has died
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• Back pain is a problem which is badly treated
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• Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)
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• BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next
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• What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
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• EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
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• Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL
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• A Sad Day for Rust
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• DigitalOcean is laying off staff
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• An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Everything I Know About SSDs
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• Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds
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• Reverse engineering course
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• An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)
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• Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used
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• Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
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• How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
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• Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable
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• Adult site leaks data of cam models
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• Unofficial Apple Archive
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
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• Bug #915: Solved
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• Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
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• DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel
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• New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law
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• JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
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• Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware
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• Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction
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• The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
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• Mozilla lays off 70
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
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• Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
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• How to Invest in Startups
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• iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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• Visa Buys Plaid
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• Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
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• GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data
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• Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
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• Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]
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• Hipmunk Says Goodbye
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
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• Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (2012) [pdf]
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• Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
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• DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
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• Images Created from Prime Numbers
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• Language Learning with Netflix extension
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• Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement
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• Why I Keep a Research Blog
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• 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers
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• Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A billion medical images are exposed online
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• A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
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• How to make roguelike games in Rust
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• HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
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• Why I Quit Using Google
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• Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor
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• Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time
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• Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
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• Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
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• Bug #915: Please help
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
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• Facebook's PR feels broken
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• I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M
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• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
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• Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation
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• SMS is not 2FA-secure
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• Haters
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• Medications that change who we are
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• Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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• Goodbye, Clean Code
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
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• Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python
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• Managing my personal knowledge base
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• Hacker News Classics (2018)
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• Linus: Don't Use ZFS
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• After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free
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• Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters
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• The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
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• VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now
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• War Is a Racket (1933)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
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• 13.3\" full color ePaper display
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• Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
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• Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
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• Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019
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• Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
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• Why are some things darker when wet?
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• Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
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• BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
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• The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• C Compiler from Scratch
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• Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
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• How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]
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• Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
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• Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway
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• Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
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• How to Exit Vim
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• ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
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• Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
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• US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error
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• AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs
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• Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)
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• The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
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• Translating Quake 3 into Rust
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• Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
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• Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online
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• Firefox 72.0
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• Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives
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• Airpods make more money than Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)
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• Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’
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• Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]
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• Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level
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• Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig
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• Products I Wish Existed
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• New Cambridge Analytica Leaks
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• The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
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• Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money
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• For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
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• Notes on Technical Writing
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• Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
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• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
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• Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
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• No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)
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• Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
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• Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
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• Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
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• Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Just Build the Product
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• Dive into Deep Learning
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• What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?
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• Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
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• Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
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• U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
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• A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
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• Lessons from six years as a solo consultant
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• Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
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• Ask HN: Are books worth it?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China
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• Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
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• Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
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• Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
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• Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
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• Which Emoji Scissors Close?
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• Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
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• EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
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• When good ideas make bad business
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hard deadlines are not user-first
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• What Will Happen in the 2020s
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• Guide to speaking at tech conferences
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• Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free
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• Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon
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• Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)
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• Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
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• I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
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• Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
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• The Polygons of Another World
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• All DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak in 2019 were bogus
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• Doing a database join with CSV files
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• Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript
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• Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
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• Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit
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• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)
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• Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript
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• Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust
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• Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future
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• Software Disenchantment (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Scaling React Server Side Rendering
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• Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player
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• Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study
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• What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
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• ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
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• New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity
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• Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?
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• Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020
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• IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
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• Marijuana laws appear to significantly reduce prescription opioid use
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