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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What happened to Vivaldi Social?
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• Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
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• Functions are vectors
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• Snowflake
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• Welcome to Wikifunctions
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• Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
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• Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier
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• Emacs 29.1
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• I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one week of empathy training
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• Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Threads users down by more than a half
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• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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• Why is DNS still hard to learn?
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• Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation
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• The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
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• Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional
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• No-GIL mode coming for Python
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• So you want to build your own open source chatbot
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• IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)
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• If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
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• Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
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• Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh
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• Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
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• Watch TV from the 90s and earlier
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• Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge
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• Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
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• California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
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• Cap'n Proto 1.0
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• Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset
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• Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
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• It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
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• Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing
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• Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
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• Tarsnap outage postmortem
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• Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
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• Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
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• BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
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• No one wants to talk to a chatbot
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• When did people stop being drunk all the time?
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• Guide to running Llama 2 locally
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• PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language
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• Google vs. the Open Web
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• Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
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• Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
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• Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
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• Mold 2.0
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• Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
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• Sinead O’Connor has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
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• The Fall of Stack Overflow
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• Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
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• Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
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• Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices
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• Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed
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• OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
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• A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
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• At this company, we are family
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• The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable
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• U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
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• Inkscape 1.3
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• Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
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• Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
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• Zenbleed
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• Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
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• 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
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• Attention Is Off By One
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• Have attention spans been declining?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Important Coding Habits
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• A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work
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• Egregoria: 3D City Builder without a grid
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• Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
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• Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations
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• I found an IT job thanks to this blog
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• Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi
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• Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
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• Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C
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• All Foster Kids in California Can Now Attend Any State College for Free
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense
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• Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
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• Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
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• Llama: Add grammar-based sampling
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• Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
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• FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator
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• Putting the “You” in CPU
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• Plane – Open-source Jira alternative
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• I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
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• Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Human Shader
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• TypeChat
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• Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it
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• A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
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• Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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• Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers
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• I have written a JVM in Rust
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• Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
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• Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age
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• In the LLM space, \"open source\" is being used to mean \"downloadable weights\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
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• Kevin Mitnick has died
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• Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative
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• The past is not true
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• Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative
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• No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
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• Accidentally Load Bearing
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• Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
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• JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going
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• FedNow Is Live
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies
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• Sweden Sans
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• Val, a high-level systems programming language
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• Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker
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• ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products
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• Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)
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• Advanced Python Mastery
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• Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books
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• Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
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• Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)
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• Coroutines for Go
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• The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X
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• Never waste a midlife crisis
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• Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo
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• A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
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• Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
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• A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft
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• Llama 2
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• Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
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• SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation
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• How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
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• Underwater ears everywhere
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• Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
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• LazyVim
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• A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
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• Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?
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• You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email
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• The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
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• Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data
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• Nobody cares about your blog
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• A third of North America’s birds have vanished
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• How I run my servers (2022)
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• Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope
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• 6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)
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• Discord is not documentation
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• Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm
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• The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Chiptune.app
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• The Blob Toy
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• S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
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• Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way
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• The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
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• The Uxn Ecosystem
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• “Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?”
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• Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
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• Another World ported to FPGA
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• Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
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• It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
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• Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
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• StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100
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• Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables
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• Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings
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• On Becoming a VP of Engineering
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• Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash
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• WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
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• Internet Archive expands Flash support
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
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• Telling the Bees
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• Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
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• Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)
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• Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal
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• Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta
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• Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)
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• Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud
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• Passkeys will come at a cost
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• The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Proof you can do hard things
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• PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
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• Claude 2
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• Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
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• Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night
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• Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly
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• The Free Movie
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• Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing
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• I Am Leaving
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• Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
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• Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset
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• Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
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• Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
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• Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
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• GPT-4 details leaked?
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• Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share
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• SUSE is forking RHEL
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• Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
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• Displayport: A Better Video Interface
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python
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• InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion
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• A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]
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• Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
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• Thunderbird 115
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• Nitter is working again
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• Firefox address bar
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• First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming
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• New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
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• Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I stopped buying new laptops (2020)
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• Why use Pascal?
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• Learn electronics by practice
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• PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS
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• How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
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• Defecting from North Korea is now harder
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• Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
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• PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
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• Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
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• Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP
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• Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)
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• TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types
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• How the new Threads app is made
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• Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
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• ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
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• Software engineers hate code
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• If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython
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• When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option
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• Langchain Is Pointless
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better
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• Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
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• {n} times faster than C
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• Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine
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• Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
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• Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs
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• OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm
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• Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
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• 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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• Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LLama.cpp now has a web interface
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• Rejected GitHub profile achievements
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• Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
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• Cloud Backed SQLite
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• Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10
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• Godot 4.1
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• Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government
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• France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
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• LEGO Building Instructions
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• GPT-4 API General Availability
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
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• Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
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• Simple Unix Chat
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• Bret Victor update
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• Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
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• PhD Simulator
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• Regex engine internals as a library
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• Why is desalination so difficult?
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• Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
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• Fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Data-Oriented Design (2018)
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• Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
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• Threads, an Instagram app
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• Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild
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• Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
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• Companies must stop using Google Analytics
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• Sourcegraph is no longer open source
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• More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
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• Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
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• How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 2,200 forgotten vintage computers from a barn in Massachusetts
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• AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare
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• JavaScript Gom Jabbar
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• Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?
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• Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
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• 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
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• Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
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• Where in the USA is this?
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• Joins 13 Ways
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
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• A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)
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• The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment
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• How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera
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• Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules
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• After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted
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• Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures
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• Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5
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• Stanford A.I. Courses
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• First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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• Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
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• New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)
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• Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
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• Gping – ping, but with a graph
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• VUDA: A Vulkan Implementation of CUDA
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• How to Do Great Work
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• Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
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• Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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• “It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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• Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
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• Github.com is down
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• Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
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• MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown
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• Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library
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• How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf]
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• Terrible real estate agent photographs
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• Hurl 4.0.0
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• Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go
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