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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
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• Grok Code Fast 1
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• Flunking my Anthropic interview again
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• Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
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• Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
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• The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
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• John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
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• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
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• Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
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• Cognitive load is what matters
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
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• Uncertain<T>
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• Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
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• Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
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• Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
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• The Synology End Game
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• Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it
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• Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
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• If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
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• Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
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• The GitHub website is slow on Safari
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• Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
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• VIM Master
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• Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
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• Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
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• Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
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• The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
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• Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?
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• Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
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• US Intel
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• A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
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• Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
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• Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs
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• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
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• Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him
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• The Therac-25 Incident (2021)
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• Monodraw
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• Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A visual introduction to big O notation
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• A bug saved the company
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• Google's Liquid Cooling
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• Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
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• macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
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• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
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• Framework Laptop 16
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• We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
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• Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment
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• Claude for Chrome
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We put a coding agent in a while loop
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• Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
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• Everything I know about good API design
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• Ghrc.io appears to be malicious
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• Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
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• What are OKLCH colors?
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• Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
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• Building the mouse Logitech won't make
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• FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections
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• Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Burner Phone 101
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• RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
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• Line scan camera image processing for train photography
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• What makes Claude Code so damn good
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• The cost of interrupted work (2023)
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• How to build a coding agent
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• Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)
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• A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
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• Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
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• Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
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• Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges
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• Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)
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• Everything is correlated (2014–23)
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• LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis
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• Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
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• The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
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• Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
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• Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
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• Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An interactive guide to SVG paths
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• Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
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• Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
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• DeepSeek-v3.1
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• Code formatting comes to uv experimentally
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• Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
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• Go is still not good
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• FFmpeg 8.0
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• Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
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• U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• D4D4
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• Sequoia backs Zed
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• Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering
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• Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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• Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts
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• Code review can be better
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• Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
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• AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
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• 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend
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• AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
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• How to Think About GPUs
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• D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
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• How to Draw a Space Invader
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• AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
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• Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
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• Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
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• Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
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• Pixel 10 Phones
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• Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger
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• Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery
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• Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
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• Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
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• Left to Right Programming
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• T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree
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• Obsidian Bases
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• OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
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• \"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec\"
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• How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut
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• Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
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• Show HN: NextDNS Adds \"Bypass Age Verification\"
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• Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
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• The Enterprise Experience
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• ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links
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• Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia
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• Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
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• FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
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• Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
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• Pfeilstorch
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• Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
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• Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
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• OpenAI Progress
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• GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
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• Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
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• Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
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• LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers
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• Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• AI is different
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• I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
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• ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
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• Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
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• The electric fence stopped working years ago
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• Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
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• The future of large files in Git is Git
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• PuTTY has a new website
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• Good system design
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• Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)
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• What does Palantir actually do?
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• Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
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• Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer
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• Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text
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• I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer
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• We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application
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• Blurry rendering of games on Mac
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• Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
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• Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
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• Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
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• OCaml as my primary language
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• Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy
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• Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
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• Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court
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• Why LLMs can't really build software
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• Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
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• Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
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• Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LLMs aren't world models
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• Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
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• Search all text in New York City
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• VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
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• F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
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• Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
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• FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
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• This website is for humans
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• Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
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• PYX: The next step in Python packaging
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit
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• Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
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• GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]
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• StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
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• Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
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• Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive
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• GitHub is (again) having issues
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• Why are there so many rationalist cults?
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• Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
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• Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place
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• GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2
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• Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
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• The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
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• OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography
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• Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
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• I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
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• Claude Code is all you need
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• GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
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• Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop
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• How I use Tailscale
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• The Framework Desktop is a beast
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• Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia
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• MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems
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• My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
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• Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications
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• How I code with AI on a budget/free
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• Try and
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• Fight Chat Control
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C
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• How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB
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• Getting good results from Claude Code
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• Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
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• The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
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• Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
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• Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
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• Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
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• OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
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• Debian 13 \"Trixie\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Windows XP Professional
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• Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
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• OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
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• Historical Tech Tree
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• Cursor CLI
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• Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security
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• Cursed Knowledge
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• Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole
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• Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
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• I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Automerge 3.0
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• Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
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• Jules, our asynchronous coding agent
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• Litestar is worth a look
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• Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
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• Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
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• GPT-5
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• GPT-5 for Developers
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• GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
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• Vibechart
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apache ECharts 6
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• Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds
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• Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
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• US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief
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• Ollama Turbo
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• Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
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• Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
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• I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
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• Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
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• Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
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• Objects should shut up
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• Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
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• PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
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• Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
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• uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
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• Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
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• Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
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• Claude Opus 4.1
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• Open models by OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How we built Bluey’s world
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• Tokens are getting more expensive
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• UN report finds UN reports are not widely read
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• Writing a good design document
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• So you want to parse a PDF?
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• Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
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• Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
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• Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
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• Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
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• Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Online Collection of Keygen Music
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• PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor
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• 6 weeks of Claude Code
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• A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
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• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
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• Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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• If you're remote, ramble
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• Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
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• Modern Node.js Patterns
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
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• Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
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• Our Farewell from Google Play
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• At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery
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• I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
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• Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU
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• Cerebras Code
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• This Month in Ladybird
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• We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
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• Telo MT1
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
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• Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided
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• Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea
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• MacBook Pro Insomnia
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• Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
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• AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
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• The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
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• Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
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• Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
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• Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Face it: you're a crazy person
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• Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
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• Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
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• The Math Is Haunted
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• Vibe code is legacy code
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• Ollama's new app
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• Figma will IPO on July 31
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• I tried Servo
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• How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
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• Slow
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