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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• USWDS: The United States Web Design System
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• Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs
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• Ubiquiti is suing Brian Krebs for his reporting on their breach
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• SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test
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• Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
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• Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
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• Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
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• Generics can make your Go code slower
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• Filing Taxes Could Be Free & Simple. H&R Block & Intuit Lobby Against It (2017)
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• The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’
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• Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
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• Today Google is turning on tracking for many users that previously turned it off
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• Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC
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• Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”
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• $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network
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• React v18.0
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• Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?
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• FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
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• FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Firefox UI/UX History
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• Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
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• Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
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• I hate what video games have become
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• What is money, anyway?
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• Fuchsia Workstation
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• Maybe you should do less 'work'
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• Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time since Fukushima
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• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
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• Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
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• Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
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• A userspace WireGuard client that exposes itself as a proxy
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• What made the NES so interesting?
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• TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack
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• It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
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• Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing
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• Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
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• Killed by Microsoft
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• Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat
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• Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
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• Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds
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• Cat Printer
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• Vulnerability in Honda's Remote Keyless System
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• The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
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• Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
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• `COPY –chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35%
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• Running GUI apps within Docker containers
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• Mourning loss as a remote team
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 25, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• YouTuber builds his own x-ray machine after $69k hospital bill (2021)
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• I became the world's most prolific DJ, using code
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• A Way Out for A.out
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• The Cube Rule
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• Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020)
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• The end of the nice GTK button
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• Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf]
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• 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
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• Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
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• I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners
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• Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
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• But life had other plans
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• Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
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• If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
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• Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
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• Korn Meets KoRN
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• Crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds
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• MDN Plus
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• Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$
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• Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity
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• Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage
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• Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)
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• DEV-0537 targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction
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• Web3 is centralized and inefficient
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• I won an award from the FSF for my contributions to Emacs
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• A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
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• Thank You HN
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• Start Self Hosting
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters
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• Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
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• Tell HN: A $40B company killed my 2yo son. Now they force me to keep silent
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• My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)
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• Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle when Drive Pilot is active
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• OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no power cut-out
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• Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails
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• Tolkien's Paintings
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• Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
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• Nvidia Grace CPU
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
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• I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
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• Windows needs a change in priorities
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• Please put units in names
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• Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
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• Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages
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• Plain Text Sports
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• OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider
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• Ask HN: Is Apple down?
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• CSS's !important was added for one reason only
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Boschian Horror of ‘Elden Ring’
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• Gas pumps happen to be about as insecure as your typical router
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• Why America can’t build quickly anymore
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• Ask HN: What book changed your life?
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• Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder
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• Study on quality of sleep when pet cats choose location of slumber
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• NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines
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• Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
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• Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark
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• Vimeo: “We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel
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• How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
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• Christopher Alexander has died
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• How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London
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• Crypto is an Unproductive Bubble
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• First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations
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• Asahi Linux alpha release
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• Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
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• OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems
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• Arizona moves to ban recording video of police
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• MaskerAid iOS App
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• Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator
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• Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
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• Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)
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• Food Packaging
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• LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
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• Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here
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• The Line of Death (2017)
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• Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project
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• How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored
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• My boundaries as an open source developer
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• Deno Is Webby
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• TUIs
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• I found a security issue on a competitor, got fired and served a summons
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• Lapce – Fast open-source code editor
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• In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
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• H.264 is Magic (2016)
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• Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising
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• Zotero 6
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• On Being Indispensable
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• Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolation protest
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• Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH
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• The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
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• Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics
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• Zelensky video deepfake
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• Deliberately optimizing for harm
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• How our free plan stays free
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• 5 Charged with Stalking, Harassing, Spying on US Residents for PRC Secret Police
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• US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
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• RP2040 Doom
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• New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
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• Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
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• Cities should not pay for new stadiums
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• DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
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• CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach torture techniques
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• Go 1.18
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• US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
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• Senate votes unanimously to pass bill making Daylight Savings Time permanent
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How To Do Less
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• Vanced has been discontinued
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• Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial fusion companies
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• Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
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• Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
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• Spending more on retaining developers reduces the cost of hiring developers
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• Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
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• Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) – Trees that capture and store more carbon
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• Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
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• Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Python Design Patterns (2018)
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• A non-standard book list for software developers
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• .NET Myths Dispelled
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• The case for induction cooking
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• Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole
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• Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
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• We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption
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• Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)
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• EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
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• My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A short conversation with a bank
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• Roland 50 Studio
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• HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth
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• Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
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• How to Design Better APIs
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• Inspecting Web Views in macOS
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• Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday
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• Newer TP-Link Routers send large numbers of requests to Avira servers
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• Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
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• Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
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• Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated meat
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• Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
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• We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
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• Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies
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• Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
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• Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed
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• Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?
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• Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses
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• uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
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• Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL
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• Man given genetically modified pig heart dies
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• Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation
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• Barcode Detection API
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• Appeal to Ruby Community from Kharkiv Rubyist
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• f.lux
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• DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”
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• Stripe Crypto
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• Tradle
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do we import crude?
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• Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records
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• Bugs in Hello World
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• Elementary OS is imploding
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• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
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• China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war
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• Some tiny personal programs I've written
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• Twitter is now available on Tor
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• Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (2019)
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• Blender 3.1
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SATCOM terminals under attack in Europe: a plausible analysis
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• An update on the threat landscape
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• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
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• I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
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• Google to Acquire Mandiant
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• WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas
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• Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study
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• The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
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• Apple Mac Studio
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• Apple M1 Ultra
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• iMac G4 to M1 conversion process
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• C++ Cheat Sheets
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• My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
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• The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
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• Zero rupee note (2015)
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• Algorithms for Modern Hardware
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• Russia to legalize software piracy
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• The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability
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• Britain to start approval process for Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor
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• So you want to study mathematics
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Modern smartphone lenses are crazy
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• The hardest program I've ever written (2015)
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• Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
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• I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
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• Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)
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• IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)
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• A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function
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• Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages
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• Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?
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• Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
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• Mushrooms: Next big thing in environmentally-friendly packaging, construction?
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• Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
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• Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface
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• Possible BGP hijack
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• YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
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• A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)
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• Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
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• Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
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• GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU
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• How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased from 1990–2020
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• New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
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• How the weak can win – A primer on protracted war
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• Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
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• Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
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• Leaflet was created 11yrs ago by Vladimir Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv
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• Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
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• It's always been you, Canvas2D
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• There’s no need to change passwords if they're robust, unique and not breached
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How does perspective work in pictures?
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• Show HN: Huemint – Machine learning for color design
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• Amazon to close all of its physical bookstores and '4-star' shops
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• Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
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• Moving money internationally
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• My Stripe Tax Story
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• Map of Surnames in Europe
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• ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]
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• 43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (2005)
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• It's now your fault they don't know about it
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• David Boggs has died
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• Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
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• Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
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• Write plain text files
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• Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
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• EEG Cat Ears (2018)
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• SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
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• SPAs Were a Mistake
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• Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid
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• How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub
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• Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
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• No user accounts, by design
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• F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
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• Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
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• Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be
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• Things you don't need JavaScript for
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• RISC-V is succeeding
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• Zain Nadella, Satya Nadella's son, dies at 26
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why not hire part-time developers?
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• Caltech's CS interview prep course
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• Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes
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• The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)
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• Linux from Scratch
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• Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)
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• Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
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• “O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
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• I'm common as muck and spent £150 to try a Michelin star restaurant
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• Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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