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Closes #344 (partially — there may be more dead links elsewhere in the README; this PR covers what I checked).

Checked every link in the README with a real browser user-agent (to avoid false positives from sites that block bots) and removed entries confirmed to return 404 or be otherwise unreachable:

  • Create a Character Voting App (sahatyalkabov.com, 404)
  • Build an Instagram Clone with Angular 1.x (hackhands.com, 404)
  • Find Similar Quora Questions series, both parts (towardsdatascience, 404)
  • Learn Twitter Sentiment Analysis, Parts III–XI (towardsdatascience, 404) — left Parts I–II since those still work; removed the rest rather than leave gaps in a sequential series
  • Transfer Learning for Image Classification using Keras (towardsdatascience, 404)
  • Natural Language Processing using scikit-learn (towardsdatascience, 404)
  • Mask detection using PyTorch Lightning (towardsdatascience, 404)
  • Hack Club Workshops (hackclub.com/workshops, 404)

A few other links timed out or threw SSL/connection errors (fullstackreact.com, thinkster.io, blog.bitsrc.io, csl.name, a couple of ashwinhariharan.tech posts, flenker.blog) but DNS still resolves for all of them, so I left those alone rather than guess — could be slow/bot-blocking rather than actually dead.

Test plan

  • python scripts/check_readme.py lint passes: errors=0 warnings=0
  • Only removals, no content/formatting changes otherwise

Checked every link under the React, Angular, Machine Learning, Deep
Learning, and Miscellaneous sections and removed entries that return
404 or are otherwise confirmed unreachable (verified with a real
browser user-agent to rule out bot-blocking false positives):

- Create a Character Voting App (sahatyalkabov.com, 404)
- Build an Instagram Clone with Angular 1.x (hackhands.com, 404)
- Find Similar Quora Questions series, both parts (towardsdatascience, 404)
- Learn Twitter Sentiment Analysis, Parts III-XI (towardsdatascience, 404) -
  left Parts I-II since they still work; removed the rest rather than leave
  gaps in a sequential series
- Transfer Learning for Image Classification using Keras (towardsdatascience, 404)
- Natural Language Processing using scikit-learn (towardsdatascience, 404)
- Mask detection using PyTorch Lightning (towardsdatascience, 404)
- Hack Club Workshops (hackclub.com/workshops, 404)

Addresses practical-tutorials#344. `python scripts/check_readme.py lint` passes with
0 errors / 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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