fix: replace dead links with Wayback archives, remove unarchivable entries - #944
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…vable entries Fixes practical-tutorials#344 - Replace 9 dead tutorial links with Wayback Machine archived versions: sahatyalkabov.com (React char-voting), thinkster.io (Django+Angular), ashwinhariharan.tech (Uber-for-X x2, contact-tracing x2), towardsdatascience.com (Quora BOW/TFIDF, Quora Word2Vec, NLP scikit-learn), dev.stephendiehl.com (Write You a Haskell) - Remove 5 confirmed-dead links with no surviving archive: hackhands.com (Instagram clone), TDS Twitter Sentiment Analysis 11-part series (5 of 11 parts have no archive), TDS Transfer Learning for Image Classification, TDS Mask detection with PyTorch Lightning, thinkster.io (Additional Resources)
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I checked the full diff and ran python scripts/check_readme.py lint; it exits cleanly with no errors or warnings. I also tested all nine replacement snapshots over HTTPS, and each currently returns 200. The removals are scoped to the dead-link cleanup in #344, and I found no overlap with the links changed in #943. This looks good to merge. Two small non-blocking cleanups: please use https://web.archive.org/... for the new archive URLs, and remove the two now-empty blank list lines left after the Twitter series and Thinkster removals.
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Summary
Closes #344
Audited the README for dead links and applied fixes:
Replaced with Wayback Machine archives (9 links):
sahatyalkabov.com– Create a Character Voting App (React/Node/MongoDB)thinkster.io/django-angularjs-tutorial– Build a Google+ cloneashwinhariharan.tech– Uber-for-X App (Part 1 & 2)ashwinhariharan.tech– Community-driven delivery app (Part 1 & 2)towardsdatascience.com– Find Similar Quora Questions (BOW/TFIDF & Word2Vec)towardsdatascience.com– Natural Language Processing with scikit-learndev.stephendiehl.com/fun/– Write You a HaskellRemoved (confirmed 404/DNS failure, no surviving archive):
hackhands.com– Build an Instagram Clone with Angular 1.xtowardsdatascience.com– Learn Twitter Sentiment Analysis (11-part series; 5 of 11 parts have no Wayback snapshot, making the series incomplete)towardsdatascience.com– Transfer Learning for Image Classification using Kerastowardsdatascience.com– Mask detection using PyTorch Lightningthinkster.io– Removed from Additional Resources (domain DNS failure)Not touched (403 responses): Links from Medium, Hackernoon, CodeBurst, etc. return 403 to HEAD requests due to bot-blocking — they are accessible in a browser and were not modified.
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