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How “the king of the world’s booksellers” produced manuscripts
https://lithub.com/goatskin-tree-bark-and-one-expensive-scribe-how-the-king-of-the-worlds-booksellers-produced-manuscripts/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20April%2013%2C%202021&utm_term=lithub_master_list

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Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357

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Simone Weil and the Need for Roots
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-great-unsettling

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'World’s most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-56818538

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Quandaries of Quinine
https://jhiblog.org/2021/04/07/quandaries-of-quinine/

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Ask HN: I am building a bugtracker. What would you like to see?
https://bugasura.io/

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The Reason to End the Death Penalty
http://www.paulgraham.com/real.html

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Moving Forth (1993)
https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm

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Apple Is Sued for Telling You That You're “Buying” Movies
https://nofilmschool.com/apple-movie-buys

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Must Love Bogs
https://thebaffler.com/latest/must-love-bogs-emory

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Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
http://beej.us/guide/bgc/pdf/bgc_usl_c_1.pdf

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Cooperative male dolphins can tell who's on their team
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-ally-cooperative-male-dolphins-team.html

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Mars Sucks
https://www.marssucks.com/

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FFmpeg and a Thousand Fixes (2014)
https://security.googleblog.com/2014/01/ffmpeg-and-thousand-fixes.html

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Spry Error Handling
http://goran.krampe.se/2021/04/21/spry-error-handling/

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Europe’s Super League scores an own goal
https://www.economist.com/business/2021/04/22/europes-super-league-scores-a-spectacular-own-goal

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Why Lichess will always be free
https://lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQAACAA89PI/why-lichess-will-always-be-free.

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Police search cryptocurrency trading firm after Turks say they were scammed
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkish-crypto-traders-file-complaints-after-access-accounts-frozen-lawyer-2021-04-22/

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The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/

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Some useful regular expressions for programmers
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/22/some-useful-regular-expressions-for-programmers/

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