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320
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849
294
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502
312
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https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
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492
458
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402
211
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401
84
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298
57
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282
86
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276
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256
357
Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
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250
41
Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify/
213
266
Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity
198
20
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9hM0h6IQDo
192
69
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189
44
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3
188
215
Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20793590
187
162
The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
180
191
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https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cuu8rc/why_didnt_the_romans_contribute_much_to/
174
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167
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The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-handwriting/
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376
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-25/germany-in-uproar-as-negative-rates-threaten-saving-obsession
153
47
Chicken Hypnotism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism
146
The Gig Economy (2018)
https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/
138
8
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https://defn.io/2019/08/20/racket-ecommerce/
28
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/127.0.0.1
137
12
Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
http://ma-graph.org/
133
196
America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-18/america-is-obsessed-with-beef-but-it-has-no-use-for-hides-so-leather-prices-plunge
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130
13
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127
54
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126
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https://2019.phpce.eu/en/
122
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117
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101
Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31812-9/fulltext
100
Keyringless GnuPG
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/08/09/
97
23
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ninth-circuit-goes-step-further-protect-privacy-border-device-searches
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20795113
92
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India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-48050020
30
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http://www.webmin.com/exploit.html
