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Don't Fly During Ramadan (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)

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Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus (www.hankboughtabus.com)

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Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How far the once mighty SourceForge has fallen… (www.gluster.org)

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Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors? (physics.stackexchange.com)

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In California, a Champion for Police Cameras (www.nytimes.com)

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Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy (wekeroad.com)

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Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever (techcrunch.com)

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Github now supports rendering tabular data (github.com)

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Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig (arstechnica.com)

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The Man Who Invented Modern Probability (nautil.us)

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Coursera-dl – A script for downloading course material from coursera.org (github.com)

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Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON (github.com)

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How to Make Perfect Coffee (www.theatlantic.com)

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Gaia: The 'impossible space mission' ready to fly (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Light Table 0.5.0 (www.chris-granger.com)

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D3 3.3 Released (github.com)

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Censorship Doesn’t Just Stifle Speech — It Can Spread Disease (www.wired.com)

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Trading Halted in Nasdaq-Listed Securities Due to Technical Issue (blogs.wsj.com)

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US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law (www.zdnet.com)

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Valencia will save 1.5 million € per year by migrating to LibreOffice (joinup.ec.europa.eu)

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Apple Buys Another Map App, Embark (jessicalessin.com)

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The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less (online.wsj.com)

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What Manning Revealed (gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com)

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Chess written in sed (github.com)

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An Open Letter To Former NSA Colleagues (www.slate.com)

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How privacy advocates shined light on the NSA’s unconstitutional surveillance (www.washingtonpost.com)

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My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander (www.forbes.com)

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The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis (www.vice.com)

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What's happening in Go tip (2013-08-23) (dominik.honnef.co)

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At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution (www.reuters.com)

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San Francisco Real Estate Exuberance (priceonomics.com)

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Show HN: I've tried to write a real Elon Musk biography (leanpub.com)

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Gloss – A Bidirectional Path Tracer in C (geon.github.io)

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Arimaa - Intuitively simple ... intellectually challenging (arimaa.com)

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Tesla Gets Carried Away Hyping Crash Test Results, Has Hand Slapped By Feds (www.forbes.com)

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"Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government (shkspr.mobi)

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Ubuntu Edge is dead, long live Ubuntu phones (arstechnica.com)

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Long live the callbacks (blog.trevnorris.com)

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Ubuntu Edge: founder says failure isn't the end of the dream (www.theguardian.com)

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Happy Anniversary WWW (www.jacquesmattheij.com)

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I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified. (medium.com)

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Wait.for: Sequential programming for Node.js (beta) (github.com)

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Specter - A minimal, elegant and free markdown enabled blogging platform (brislink.github.io)

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Limited injunction for David Miranda over data seizure (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Crowdtilt launches Crowdhoster, a WordPress for crowdfunding (techcrunch.com)

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14 Years of SQL Injection and Still Widely Exploited. Why? (www.mavitunasecurity.com)

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Makerbot Digitizer: Desktop 3D scanner goes on sale (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Adding an audio play indicator to your page's tab with JavaScript (weblogs.asp.net)

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Top Sites Built with Ruby on Rails (blog.netguru.co)

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After reviewing 300 startup applications, this is what I learned (www.techfounder.net)

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Google and IBM to work on self-driving cars with Continental (www.reuters.com)

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How Computers Took Over Trading (www.bloomberg.com)

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NZ police affidavits show use of PRISM for surveillance (www.itnews.com.au)

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Facebook for All (davidsasaki.name)

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Http upstream check (tengine.taobao.org)

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Using Meteor as front-end library (frozeman.de)

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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Startup Incubator (www.nytimes.com)

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Tetra for iOS - my new Letterpress-inspired board game app (itunes.apple.com)

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Dan Veltri (Weebly): The Difference Between Success and Failure (blogs.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Instagram and Facebook Photos Delivered Monthly (strikingly.com)

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Frequency Modulation (FM) with Web Audio API (greweb.me)

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Lavabit founder: 'My own tax dollars are being used to spy on me' (www.theguardian.com)

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Polyphasic Sleep (en.wikipedia.org)

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JFDI (justinjackson.ca)

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Great Software Entrepreneurs Are Artists (robertsaric.com)

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In a town of gamblers, Mattermark is counting cards (venturebeat.com)

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Uber raises at $3.5B valuation from TPG and Google Ventures (allthingsd.com)

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What Manning Revealed (gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.it)

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Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle Google (news.yahoo.com)

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Huffington Post ends commenter anonymity (www.theguardian.com)

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'I am Chelsea': Read Manning's full statement (www.today.com)

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TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages (whispersystems.org)

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Ask HN: What has the NSA changed about your daily life? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Open Source TV Show Airtime Guide (github.com)

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NSA Monitored ALL Salt Lake City Texts/Emails For 6 Months (www.dailykos.com)

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If Programming Languages Were Cars (users.cms.caltech.edu)

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According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively” (www.salon.com)

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What if in-app purchase came to real life? (www.nirandfar.com)

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What Is It Like to Work With Elon Musk? (www.slate.com)

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Blueflood: A New Open Source Tool for Time Series Data at Scale (developer.rackspace.com)

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Why British Authorities Detained David Miranda (www.theatlantic.com)

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Edward Snowden leaks reveal UK’s secret Middle-East web surveillance base (www.independent.co.uk)

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My approach to guessing a gender from a first name. (news.ycombinator.com)

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David Miranda granted injunction against UK Government by UK court (m.bbc.co.uk)

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Float Like a Butterfly: Why AngularJS beat out Ember.js in our stack (errplane.com)

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Obama’s ‘outside experts’ for NSA review are former intel and WH staffers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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ASk HN: How to get major websites coverage on your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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OpenSSL PRNG Is Not Really Fork-safe (emboss.github.io)

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Why Spike Lee's Kickstarter campaign is not the success you think it is (thebitterscriptreader.blogspot.com)

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Electrochemical sensors in the next generation of mobile devices (news.ycombinator.com)

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Snowden Leak Reveals UK's Secret Middle East Internet Surveillance Base (www.independent.co.uk)

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Easy Way to Start Monitoring Cloud Servers (blog.mongu.ru)

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Compression techniques (developers.google.com)

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Why automatic app updates in iOS isn’t a good idea (www.sparsebundle.net)

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What You Want in a VP Eng from the Recruiters Behind Twitter and LinkedIn (firstround.com)

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Blueflood – open source metric processing system (blueflood.io)

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TIGTA: IRS May Be Violating Copyright Law on 89% of its Software (taxprof.typepad.com)

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Famous Hackers (www.onextrapixel.com)

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North Carolina Bans Use of Latest Science on Rising Sea Level (abcnews.go.com)

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Amit’s Game Programming Information (www-cs-students.stanford.edu)

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Obama’s “outside experts” surveillance review panel has deep ties to gov’t (arstechnica.com)

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Debian/Ubuntu root privilege escalation (blog.cmpxchg8b.com)

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Yahoo beats Google in traffic for first time since 2011 (money.cnn.com)

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OpenGlass gives Google Glass real-time augmented reality [video] (www.engadget.com)

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Fling media to a ChromeCast device without Google registered app dependency (github.com)

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Reporter goes rogue on RT, blasts "horrific" homophobia (www.slate.com)

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Yes, Open Source Jobs are Hot – and We Have Stats to Prove It (www.reddit.com)

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Ways to Increase Android Support Library Stability (www.crashlytics.com)

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Comet Flies Into The Sun, Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory (www.npr.org)

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With Facebook’s new Login, Facebook Platform is all about mobile now (gigaom.com)

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Facebook login option reduces eCommerce sales (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)

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Credo (medium.com)

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Users: Send me Screenshots of Bugs. Please. (usersnap.com)

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Laser listening: Could you eavesdrop on the Guardian? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The CRM Graveyard (blog.selligy.com)

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Show HN: Curate - discover and create content via collections of links (http://curate.im)

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Open Source Crowdfunding - Announcing Crowdhoster 1.0 (blog.crowdtilt.com)

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Durnken Lnauch Avdcie — Huors bferoe Our Frist Luanch (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Red Team (news.ycombinator.com)

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Makerbot releases 3D Scanner (store.makerbot.com)

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Former Windows President Steven Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com)

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Learning by Shipping (blog.learningbyshipping.com)

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Around the World Wide Web in Eighty Minutes (alistapart.com)

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Robots Hallucinate Humans to Aid in Object Recognition (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Pushes — Github post-commit notifs in your OS X Notification Center (github.com)

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Bradley Manning says wants to live as woman named Chelsea (www.reuters.com)

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Ex-Soviet hackers play outsized role in cyber crime world (www.reuters.com)

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Hotel Gives Guest Bed Bug Bites and $95,000 Bill (blog.sweetiq.com)

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DOJ wants Bush, senior cabinet members exempt from Iraq War trial (rt.com)

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The Smart Watch Needs to Matter (twotoasters.com)

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Former Windows Head Sinofsky at Andreessen Horowitz as Board Partner (allthingsd.com)

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Is Spiri the Programmable Quadrotor You've Always Wanted? (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Authentication Flaws in the Tesla Model S REST API (broadcast.oreilly.com)

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Lucky (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Show HN: Our newly launched dev/ops consultancy (http://makeropspro.com)

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How to Work with PMs (medium.com)

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Next Generation messaging (news.ycombinator.com)

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Oppenheimer Did All The Work On Black Holes But Wheeler Took All The Credit (www.lastwordonnothing.com)

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Amazon Is Said to Have Tested a Wireless Network (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: How to create textbook-like PDFs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Programming languages list, by Ian Hickson (ian.hixie.ch)

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We sent our last hire to Ethiopia. Where in the world will you go? (www.craftcoffee.com)

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Grid is hiring engineers to make the world more creative and productive (news.ycombinator.com)

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Come help us change car buying forever – CarWoo (YC S09) (news.ycombinator.com)

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