hackerNews

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Craigslist Suing Padmapper (gigaom.com)

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Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping (www.eff.org)

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If You Don’t Think You Need It, You Haven’t Seen Greatness (techcrunch.com)

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Iranian nuclear program hacked, made to play AC/DC (www.f-secure.com)

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Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"? (paulgraham.com)

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Even experts get it wrong (notch.tumblr.com)

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The Mystery of 355/113 (davidbau.com)

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Show HN: Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h (brandseenapp.com)

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Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon EC2: Video Transcoding (blog.zencoder.com)

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Just pay me. (blog.samuellevy.com)

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Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Amazon to pay 95% tuition for warehouse employees (www.amazon.com)

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On Leaving Academia (cs.unm.edu)

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Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books (http://idreambooks.com)

142 points first seen 2012072506 last seen 2012072606 87 comments

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php.js - Run PHP code in JavaScript (phpjs.hertzen.com)

128 points first seen 2012072521 last seen 2012072700 59 comments

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MITx Announced 7 Free Courses (www.edx.org)

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6

Datomic Free Edition (blog.datomic.com)

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Starting a Django Project the Right Way (www.jeffknupp.com)

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Effective Go (golang.org)

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Recycled Cardboard Bicycles For $9? (nocamels.com)

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The first open company (blog.gittip.com)

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So you want to offer a public API … (www.zemanta.com)

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SmartAsset (YC S12) Helps With Tough Financial Decisions Like Homebuying (techcrunch.com)

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How can a programmer learn to design websites that don’t suck (vascop.github.com)

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WP Engine launches git deployment for WordPress (pandodaily.com)

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Low Tech Magazine: The Chinese Wheelbarrow (www.lowtechmagazine.com)

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New 100W USB 3.0 Spec Can Charge Laptops (www.techweekeurope.co.uk)

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Hot Dogs & Caviar (daltoncaldwell.com)

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Closed for Business (mattgemmell.com)

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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results: $35B/$8B profit (www.marketwatch.com)

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Xamarin raises $12M to help you make better apps faster (blog.xamarin.com)

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Unrequited Love (steveblank.com)

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Show HN: Collections for Mac, now with Instagram Support and a Revamped UI (http://collections.me)

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SmartAsset & Our Office Hours with PG (blog.smartasset.com)

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OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys. (gist.io)

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Show HN: New Sub-Reddit for Hardware Startups (www.reddit.com)

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YC-Backed Chute Nabs $2.7M To Become The Twilio For Media Content (techcrunch.com)

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11

Simple And Safe In-App Purchase Using Parse (blog.parse.com)

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THIS Is How The First Google Glass Commercial Should Have Went… (phandroid.com)

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Spooky: How NSA’ Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life (techpp.com)

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Airbnb Acqui-Hires Brian Pokorny And The Batch/DailyBooth Team (techcrunch.com)

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Non-Tech Founder of YCW12 Daily Muse Learns Code & Builds New Feature in 6 Days (mashable.com)

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Want Dave McClure to be interested? Avoid future tense. (e27.sg)

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How I Data Mined the top 300 paids apps to create Tehula's icon (friggeri.net)

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Trigger.io v1.4 available: Facebook SDK integration, QR scanning (trigger.io)

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Apple wins EU-wide ban on Galaxy Tab 7.7; Tab 10.1N not covered (arstechnica.com)

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What's the use of stories that aren't even true? (swombat.com)

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Thoughts on Consoles and Certification Processes - Jonathan Blow (the-witness.net)

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Ask HN: how to find a good mentor? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook Opens First International Engineering Office In London (techcrunch.com)

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30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes (youtu.be)

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"Shockingly reasonable" cell phone policy announced by D.C. police chief (arstechnica.com)

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Tech's center of gravity shifts north to San Francisco (www.itworld.com)

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Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 (techcrunch.com)

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Marionette - The Future of FirefoxDriver in Selenium (www.theautomatedtester.co.uk)

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Apple Wants a Whopping $2.5 Billion From Samsung in Patent Suit (www.wired.com)

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Peter Thiels first Australian investment @scriptrock (thenextweb.com)

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Apple Warms Up to Hackers, Plans Presentation at Black Hat (go.bloomberg.com)

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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results (www.apple.com)

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Show HN: Ergonomic mouse where you lift your fingers to click (news.ycombinator.com)

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Inquisitio interrupta - squashing a MySQL connection-dropping bug (www.anchor.com.au)

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Dart's plan to make it easier for you to build web apps (youtu.be)

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Ask HN: Examples of truly great dashboards? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft: The Vanity Fair Article (www.vanityfair.com)

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VMWare is Back And It Looks Like the Old VMWare (jrodthoughts.com)

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DjangoCon US Program Published (www.djangocon.us)

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SpaceBase Can Now Be Used as a Spatial Redis (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Improvements to the First Time Sign-up Flow (identity.mozilla.com)

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Betakit: open source beta management (invites, referrals) (github.com)

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'with' gets better with python 3.1 (h3manth.com)

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LinkedIn has been redesigned (https://www.linkedin.com)

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Girl Programs Artificial 'Brain' to Diagnose Breast Cancer (www.livescience.com)

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My Story About the Long(est) Way to Build a Job Board (blog.talentopoly.com)

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Crowdfunding meetup hosted by WePay (Aug 9th) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Closed Timelike Curves Make Quantum and Classical Computing Equivalent (www.scottaaronson.com)

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Thoughts on the Jigsaw debacle (alexismp.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: roundabout.io - Jobs for devs by devs (London) (news.ycombinator.com)

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1998-A band encoded a txt file on a VINYL record, with a secret message in ASCII (www.noisemademedoit.com)

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0

How about a functional programming conference? (tech.puredanger.com)

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The nginx-Varnish-nginx sandwich (mikkel.hoegh.org)

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Square close to closing $200m round at $3.25 billion valuation (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Challenge HN: Show your company doesn't contribute to the male/female pay gap. (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development tools do you recommend? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mom Arrested For Hacking School Computers to Change Kids' Grades (abcnews.go.com)

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Petit Computer brings the power of BASIC to Nintendo 3DS and DSi (www.gizmag.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone making a living from creating open source software? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Many People Use Twitter's Own Apps? (benjaminmayo.co.uk)

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Grubwithus buys The Social Feed, expands dining network to Canada (gigaom.com)

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Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Best way to get involved with open source? (news.ycombinator.com)

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80

The Bookless Library (www.tnr.com)

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Programming Error - United Airlines $35 Ticket to Hong Kong (www.chicagotribune.com)

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Will YouTube's comment jerks willingly out themselves? Not bloody likely (www.itworld.com)

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How Apple’s phantom taxes hide billions in profit (www.boston.com)

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If I was rethinking Digg (blog.jgc.org)

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Pixar Image Computer: Yours on eBay for a cool $25K (www.tuaw.com)

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Super troll sues Netflix, Yelp, dozens more over Autocomplete (gigaom.com)

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Session Fixation and Hijacking - Basic Security Part 6 (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)

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V1 survey results | Rethink Digg (rethinkdigg.com)

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The Singularity and schools: an interview with Vernor Vinge (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Strategies for Overcoming Startup Depression (jevy.org)

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81

Watching Fortress' creation, and termination (www.sdtimes.com)

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Automatically generate REST APIs from Core Data models (github.com)

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60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS (www.colinsteele.org)

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0

Show HN: Better notepad (notepadbin.appspot.com)

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Things 60 minutes didn’t tell you about making apps (samrussell.com.au)

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Facebook announces a London engineering office (www.facebook.com)

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StyleDocco v0.5 generates web style guides for responsive demos and debugging (jacobrask.github.com)

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0

Ask HN: Review my startup, intro.getletsapp.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Twitter does not allow monitoring of its API (royal.pingdom.com)

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0

Emails From Iran (www.f-secure.com)

4 points first seen 2012072503 last seen 2012072503 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Continue building or move on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Goodbye my startup – it’s time for me to be selfish (www.junloayza.com)

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0

Double Standards (curiousrat.com)

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IFTTT Adds Box And Plans New Channel Platform Intended To Connect Business Apps (techcrunch.com)

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Building a Real-Time Database for Hadoop on MapR (drawntoscale.com)

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Blog from inside Dropbox (scriptogr.am)

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0

Elon Musk Day In The Life Of The Tesla And SpaceX CEO (www.businessinsider.com)

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Apple Reports Softer Than Expected Third Quarter Earnings (abcnews.go.com)

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Php.js - PHP VM with JavaScript - run that PHP code in JavaScript (www.reddit.com)

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82

Show HN: All Travel Deals in one page from 50+ travel sites (http://www.travelope.com)

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Semicolons; So Tricky (m.newyorker.com)

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Berkeley Joins 'EdX' Effort to Offer Free Open Courses (chronicle.com)

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0

Ask HN: How do you learn to design? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

The Compiler Rarely Knows Best in Python (alexgaynor.net)

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0

The Backbone + CoffeeScript book is ready (www.scriptybooks.com)

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0

Show HN: UrbanCyclr a Social Bicycle HeatMap (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

How Big Cable killed the open set-top box—and what to do about it (arstechnica.com)

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0

The Myth of the Libertarian Internet (www.slate.com)

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0

WellsFargo Ignores Case Sensativity on passwords (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Digital Photography - Difference Engine: Let there be Light (www.economist.com)

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0

What does the Internet think? (www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net)

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A Surprisingly Long List of Everything Smartphones Replaced (www.technologyreview.com)

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Developers dish on iCloud's challenges (www.macworld.com)

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HTML website 10x faster than Wordpress on shared hosting (nongraphical.com)

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0

A Real Day in the Life of a hackNY Fellow (hackny.org)

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Computing for data analysis (www.coursera.org)

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Software patent: String length determination on a distributed prContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ocessing system (patft.uspto.gov)

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0

Stop Being So Afraid Of Offending Someone (pentagram.me)

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700m tunnel with train used to smuggle goods, people into EU (www.economist.com)

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Design how business communicates. SendHub (YC W12) is looking for a Designer (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mixpanel is looking for a Frontend Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

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Engineers for A16Z Startup Circle/Work with ACM World Finalists (news.ycombinator.com)

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