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Show HN: Pinbot – An extension to privately search one's browser history with AI
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Reddit Releases Post Mortem for Its 3 Hour Outage Last Week
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The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999
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TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
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How to Annotate Everything
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Reverse engineering yet another eBook format
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I tracked everything I read on the internet for a year
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Two Years and over 700 Websites Later
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Twenty years of my blog
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Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
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Scrapism
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Web scraping with Python open knowledge
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Marginalia Search: 1 Year
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Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases
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The State of Web Scraping 2022
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Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow
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Caught in the Study Web
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Bibliogram – Open-source front-end for Instagram
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Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
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I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019
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How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping
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Show HN: Notado – Content-First Bookmarking
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Pinboard Turns Eleven
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Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history
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Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime
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Fast or Slow
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The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
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Mining Social Media
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How to annotate everything
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PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life
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I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads
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I Can’t Stop Winning
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How healthy is the internet?
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The Web We Broke
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Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
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A hundred million cars run curl
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Researchers contest widely-accepted UN's predictions on urban population growth
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Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway
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Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
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Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
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Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files
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Linux Marketshare on Desktops Apparently Hit 6.91% in September, Higher Than Mac
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Linux desktop market share over 3%
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Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf]
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Office365 users shared hundreds of sensitive docs publicly through docs.com
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Topic mining with LDA and Kmeans and interactive clustering in Python
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Desktop Operating System Market Share
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Linux Market Share on Desktop
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Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
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Analyzing Last.fm Listening History
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Web Scraping to Create Open Data
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The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy
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Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey
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Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks
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Layer cam
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The Craigwatch Story
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Artoo, the client-side scraping companion
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Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading
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A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus
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Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in SF
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Subreddit connections
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Without even knowing: the HN post I missed
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Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site
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Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?
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90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F)
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Quirksmode is seeking to raise € 2,500 in donations
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From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind Breakup Notifier
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Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews
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What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?
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How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records
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The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
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The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching 404s
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Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders
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How big is YouTube?
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Analyzing Spotify Stream History
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PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
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Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
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