hackerNews

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Intelligence Coup of the Century (www.washingtonpost.com)

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shit: An implementation of Git using (almost) entirely POSIX shell (git.sr.ht)

813 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021503 222 comments

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Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? (item?id=22299180)

751 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021303 166 comments

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People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected from Schizophrenia (www.vice.com)

682 points first seen 2020021221 last seen 2020021503 240 comments

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Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom (zephony.com)

627 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021503 295 comments

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Firefox 73 is upon us (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot (www.kqed.org)

588 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021403 856 comments

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Rotary Cellphone (justine-haupt.com)

561 points first seen 2020021215 last seen 2020021503 163 comments

4

Where are all the animated SVGs? (www.getmotion.io)

540 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021400 182 comments

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N26 will be leaving the UK (n26.com)

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Swift Playgrounds for macOS (apps.apple.com)

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All the Apps I Pay for as a Bootstrapped Business (daily.patwalls.co)

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Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy (www.protocol.com)

347 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021203 208 comments

10

Hard Drive Stats for 2019 (www.backblaze.com)

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Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions (qz.com)

340 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021306 398 comments

2

OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android (f-droid.org)

336 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021403 90 comments

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Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine (piqnt.com)

310 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021321 58 comments

7

Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day (blog.ndepend.com)

266 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021400 205 comments

10

Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web (blog.acolyer.org)

243 points first seen 2020021221 last seen 2020021400 107 comments

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Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’ (news.harvard.edu)

241 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021303 169 comments

21

Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation (gitlab.com)

235 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021306 81 comments

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Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (2018) (www.hillelwayne.com)

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10

U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks (www.wsj.com)

206 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021303 112 comments

4

Awk as a Major Systems Programming Language – Revisited (2018) (www.skeeve.com)

205 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021315 75 comments

10

Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis (distill.pub)

199 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021306 42 comments

8

The coming IP war over facts derived from books (abe-winter.github.io)

197 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021309 89 comments

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Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs (eclecticlight.co)

174 points first seen 2020021221 last seen 2020021312 147 comments

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Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died (www.nytimes.com)

172 points first seen 2020021215 last seen 2020021321 43 comments

3

Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds (www.sciencemag.org)

171 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021215 55 comments

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Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned? (item?id=22297780)

169 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021215 116 comments

21

Event Driven Architectures (pradeeploganathan.com)

147 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021303 54 comments

20

Mate Desktop 1.24 Released (mate-desktop.org)

146 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021303 66 comments

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Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says (www.nytimes.com)

141 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021303 134 comments

5

Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners [pdf] (airpower.airforce.gov.au)

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USB armory: an open-source hardware design, flash-drive sized computer (inversepath.com)

136 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021300 32 comments

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Plasma 5.18.0 LTS (kde.org)

135 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021221 77 comments

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The Economics of Clean Code (frederickvanbrabant.com)

122 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021221 103 comments

13

Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [video] (www.youtube.com)

118 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021303 97 comments

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Linus Torvalds, Tom Preston-Werner, Peff and Others Tell the History of Git (www.welcometothejungle.com)

115 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021215 38 comments

12

Applying Mypy to real-world projects (calpaterson.com)

112 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021303 21 comments

21

Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions (pspdfkit.com)

110 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021303 163 comments

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Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents (news.usni.org)

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27

People of Las Vegas (believermag.com)

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Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis (www.databreachtoday.asia)

101 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021218 36 comments

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Turtleocracy (www.notion.so)

98 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021215 55 comments

18

Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection (danilafe.com)

97 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021309 21 comments

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Ten simple rules for getting started on Twitter as a scientist (journals.plos.org)

94 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021303 32 comments

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Coronavirus Mortality Rate (www.worldometers.info)

89 points first seen 2020021215 last seen 2020021300 67 comments

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Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver (n4r1b.netlify.com)

87 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021303 10 comments

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Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow database written in Rust (github.com)

80 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021303 7 comments

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A Taxonomy of Privacy (2006) [pdf] (www.law.upenn.edu)

73 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021221 8 comments

19

The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics (nuscimag.com)

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Artificial atoms create stable qubits for quantum computing (phys.org)

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12

Apple 2 connecting via acoustic coupler modem and rotary phone (2015) [video] (www.youtube.com)

67 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021300 25 comments

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The high cost of a free coding bootcamp (www.theverge.com)

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Li Wenliang (en.wikipedia.org)

64 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021206 19 comments

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Raw Gadget is a kernel module that allows to emulate USB devices from userspace (github.com)

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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence (www.newscientist.com)

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ARM Launches Cortex M55 and Ethos-U55 (fuse.wikichip.org)

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F-Secure just made a super secure USB sized computer (www.trustedreviews.com)

53 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021203 12 comments

19

Appeals to Consequences (www.jefftk.com)

52 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021215 39 comments

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Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day? (item?id=22297851)

50 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021209 22 comments

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All Programming Languages are Wrong (2018) (users.rcn.com)

48 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021300 57 comments

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A skeptical look at some of ISO 8601's new extensions (www.datafix.com.au)

48 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2022032921 19 comments

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The Web Application Messaging Protocol (wamp-proto.org)

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US orders Google, Facebook and others to reveal details of years of acquisitions (www.theguardian.com)

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Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO (www.wsj.com)

44 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021300 17 comments

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Why I'm open sourcing the financial side of my business (ma.ttias.be)

43 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021203 8 comments

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What does /etc/mailname do? (wiki.debian.org)

40 points first seen 2020021215 last seen 2020021306 21 comments

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America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller (www.neh.gov)

33 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021221 38 comments

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FTC to Examine Past Acquisitions by Large Technology Companies (www.ftc.gov)

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Show HN: Census – Sync your warehouse data to any app (https://www.getcensus.com)

32 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021300 3 comments

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In 1986 Microsoft advertised Windows was available “except in Nebraska”. Why? (www.reddit.com)

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Checksumming in filesystems, and why ZFS is doing it right (oshogbo.vexillium.org)

28 points first seen 2020021221 last seen 2020021309 2 comments

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Senet: the original board game of death? (www.sciencemag.org)

27 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021303 6 comments

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The locksmith, the surgeon, and the mechanical hand (2019) (muse.jhu.edu)

27 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021303 0 comments

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I Made a Color Scheme for Programming Using Math (draculatheme.com)

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Turns out Piketty was right: inequality in owning companies will worsen (www.afr.com)

26 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021203 5 comments

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Meaningful Availability [pdf] (www.usenix.org)

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Using audio channels as a social signal for remote workers (pragli.com)

26 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021306 6 comments

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How to Become an Amazing Open Source Project Maintainer, Survive, and Have Fun! (www.bwplotka.dev)

24 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021203 4 comments

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Atari acquires Wonder, a hybrid mobile gaming and entertainment platform (venturebeat.com)

22 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021303 6 comments

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Why poor people make poor decisions (thecorrespondent.com)

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Novel Coronavirus: Highly Contagious and More Infectious Than Initially Est [pdf] (www.medrxiv.org)

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CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients and countries (www.businessinsider.com)

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At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus (www.scmp.com)

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Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites (https://airsite.co)

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Xkcd Smearing Clock (tonybox.net)

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Utah sends employees to Mexico for lower prescription prices (news.yahoo.com)

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Ask HN: How do you pay attention to emotions in your remote teams? (item?id=22297511)

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Lenovo leaked an AMD Ryzen 9 U-series chip (www.techradar.com)

14 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021203 0 comments

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Red Teaming Toolkit Collection – 0xsp (0xsp.com)

14 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021215 0 comments

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Lambda School's ISAs are being sold off to investors (twitter.com)

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Why is movie theater popcorn so expensive? (thehustle.co)

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Warren Buffett Has Started the Biggest Energy Revolution (www.forbes.com)

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84

How to Develop Alone (Without Making an Enormous Mess) (spin.atomicobject.com)

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The price of a .com domain is set to rise, and some sellers aren't happy (www.engadget.com)

11 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021215 2 comments

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Understand Proportional Symbol in Probability and Statistics (leimao.github.io)

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Software error exposes the ID numbers for 1.26M Danish citizens (www.zdnet.com)

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Use a:visited in your CSS stylesheet (evertpot.com)

10 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021303 3 comments

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Bizcat: An 8x16 Bitmap Font (robey.lag.net)

9 points first seen 2020021200 last seen 2020021200 4 comments

0

The wealth gap: how changing fortunes tear close friends apart (www.theguardian.com)

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Self-Training with Noisy Student Improves ImageNet Classification (arxiv.org)

9 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021300 0 comments

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Career Builder's CEO: Young people are 'ghosting' employers (www.yahoo.com)

9 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021212 13 comments

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Data Science Portfolio (github.com)

8 points first seen 2020021203 last seen 2020021206 0 comments

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Abductive Natural Language Inference Leaderboard (leaderboard.allenai.org)

8 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021215 0 comments

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Disease caused by the Wuhan coronavirus officially has a name: Covid-19 (www.statnews.com)

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Is an Antidepressant Right for You? Ask Your Brain Waves (www.scientificamerican.com)

7 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021212 0 comments

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Wadge Degrees (2015) (billwadge.wordpress.com)

7 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021300 0 comments

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Personal data of all 6.5M Israeli voters exposed by security flaw in app (edition.cnn.com)

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The Doctors Who Bill You While You’re Unconscious (www.theatlantic.com)

6 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021206 0 comments

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California 'refugees' moving to Idaho to avoid vaccinating their kids (www.sfgate.com)

6 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021209 0 comments

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The Bloom Tree (arxiv.org)

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Safe Systems Programming in Rust: The Promise and the Challenge [pdf] (robbertkrebbers.nl)

6 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021221 0 comments

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Battling Malaria at the Atomic Level (directorsblog.nih.gov)

5 points first seen 2020021206 last seen 2020021209 0 comments

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Mysterious radio signal from space is repeating every 16 days (www.cnn.com)

5 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021209 0 comments

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Basicode: The 8-bit programming API that crossed the Berlin Wall (fosdem.org)

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The Dismal Kingdom: Do Economists Have Too Much Power? (www.foreignaffairs.com)

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US finds Huawei has backdoor access to mobile networks globally, report says (www.cnet.com)

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Show HN: Privacy preserving notes and journal webapp with personal analytics (https://poplar.one)

4 points first seen 2020021209 last seen 2020021215 4 comments

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New Hampshire town's voting system is 130 years old (m.youtube.com)

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Subset of thContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1e dependency graph of NPM's react-scripts package (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021218 0 comments

0

The World According to Thiel [video] (youtu.be)

3 points first seen 2020021212 last seen 2020021212 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Trouble with Next Career Move (item?id=22305215)

3 points first seen 2020021215 last seen 2020021215 0 comments

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Hard Data Shows a Centrist Democrat Would Be a Losing Candidate (www.salon.com)

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Introduction to Interscript (1985) [pdf] (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)

3 points first seen 2020021218 last seen 2020021300 0 comments