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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for April 20, 2023 :</p>

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Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years

Summary: The founder of Legit Torrents, a legal torrent tracker, announced that the site has shut down after being null-routed by the host with no way to spin it up again. The site was started in 2005 as there was no 100% legal torrent tracker that anyone could easily submit to. The founder ran it out of his bedroom at his parents' house for a long time, eventually switching over to a VPS. He learned a lot from running the site, including web development, marketing, and server administration. The site was also how he made his first dollar online through Google Adsense, until his account was banned. He redesigned the site to have a custom Web 2.0 style and had a routine of checking through a list of sites for new torrents to add to his site. He helped his friends launch an album that they produced, which he had "pinned" to the torrents page for a long time. The founder received a takedown notice from "The

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Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire

Summary: In the mid-6th century, two monks smuggled living silkworms into the Byzantine Empire from China with the support of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. This led to the establishment of an indigenous Byzantine silk industry that held a silk monopoly in Europe. Silk was a valuable trade commodity along the Silk Road, and with the rise of the Sassanid Empire and the subsequent Roman-Persian Wars, importing silk to Europe became increasingly difficult and expensive. Justinian I tried creating alternative trade routes to Sogdiana, a major silk-producing center, but the failure of these efforts led him to look elsewhere. The two monks had observed the intricate methods for raising silkworms and producing silk while preaching Christianity in India, and sought out Justinian I in 552 CE.