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NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students (www.wsj.com)
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Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k (www.news.gatech.edu)
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Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) (setosa.io)
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YC China and Qi Lu (blog.ycombinator.com)
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Serverless Docker Beta (zeit.co)
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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (mchap.io)
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Exapunks (www.zachtronics.com)
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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available (academictorrents.com)
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What the f*** is the edge? (arcentry.com)
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Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube? (dolphin-emu.org)
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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017) (blog.bugsnag.com)
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1/0 = 0 (www.hillelwayne.com)
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Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash (github.com)
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Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness (phys.org)
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Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer (www.ucdavis.edu)
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Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate (medium.com)
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Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid (www.bloomberg.com)
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Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017) (oceana.org)
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Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs (letsencrypt.org)
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What did Earth look like X million years ago? (dinosaurpictures.org)
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FxSolver – A solver for engineering and scientific equations (www.fxsolver.com)
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Loss aversion is not supported by the evidence (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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4D toys (4dtoys.com)
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Filament: Physically-based rendering engine (google.github.io)
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Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces (brandur.org)
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JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars (github.com)
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In Pursuit of Production Minimalism (brandur.org)
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Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python (github.com)
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Lubuntu is taking a new direction (lubuntu.me)
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A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet (www.quaxio.com)
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Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm (www.quantamagazine.org)
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Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit (techcrunch.com)
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Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room (www.cjr.org)
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How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side (www.idontplaydarts.com)
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iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 (gitlab.com)
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The death of a TLD (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
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Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries? (www.nature.com)
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Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian (www.bloomberg.com)
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The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan (www.bloomberg.com)
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Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research (www.zotero.org)
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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (cacm.acm.org)
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EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing (techcrunch.com)
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Intel’s Plans for 3DXP DIMMs Emerge (www.realworldtech.com)
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Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing (krebsonsecurity.com)
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Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities (blog.ptsecurity.com)
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p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing (papers.ssrn.com)
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Why there's finally a drug for smallpox even though the disease no longer exists (www.cbc.ca)
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016) (www.sandimetz.com)
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Farewell, Google Maps (www.inderapotheke.de)
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Unveil(2) – Unveil parts of a restricted filesystem view (man.openbsd.org)
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Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch (techcrunch.com)
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Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat (engineering.riotgames.com)
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Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf] (yurichev.com)
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Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day (techcrunch.com)
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A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
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Async and Await in Rust: a full proposal (boats.gitlab.io)
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Taking Go modules for a spin (dave.cheney.net)
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Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router (github.com)
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Learn how to design large-scale systems (github.com)
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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” (mail.python.org)
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Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web (krebsonsecurity.com)
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FCC Proposes Rebuilding Comment System After Millions Were Found Fake (www.wsj.com)
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Djbsort: A new software library for sorting arrays of integers (sorting.cr.yp.to)
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Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar (segment.com)
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Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser (www.brow.sh)
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Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized (www.bloomberg.com)
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Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Data Was Falsified (www.wsj.com)
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Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015) (site.macleans.ca)
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PuzzleScript – an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine (www.puzzlescript.net)
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Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014) (www.buildyourownlisp.com)
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Amiga 600 FPGA Conversion (amigalove.com)
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The State of Rust on Haiku (www.haiku-os.org)
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California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online (www.niemanlab.org)
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EU copyright law proposal rejected (twitter.com)
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GitHub mirror compromise incident report (wiki.gentoo.org)
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My home lab setup for highly-available Internet (github.com)
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Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up (docs.google.com)
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Rules of optimization (www.humus.name)
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Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel (belowthesurface.amsterdam)
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How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Stingray to Find Him (www.politico.com)
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Lost in Math (www.math.columbia.edu)
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Grow the Puzzle Around You (foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
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Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler (www.eetimes.com)
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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records (www.wired.com)
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Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B (techcrunch.com)
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Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard (ifixit.org)
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Norwegian Consumer Council warns against dark patterns in Facebook and Google [pdf] (fil.forbrukerradet.no)
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Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset (bdd-data.berkeley.edu)
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Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers (www.theguardian.com)
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We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password (www.troyhunt.com)
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DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos (dev.tube)
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How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Dealing with Hard Problems (2015) (artofproblemsolving.com)
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Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk (auphonic.com)
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Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone (www.npr.org)
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Twitter ‘smytes’ customers (techcrunch.com)
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States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules (www.bloomberg.com)
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Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try (mobile.nytimes.com)
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The Machine Fired Me (idiallo.com)
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Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014) (ai.google)
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The SEC Will Leave Good ICOs Alone (www.bloomberg.com)
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We Should Teach Music History Backwards (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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No Copyright Law the Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? (2010) (m.spiegel.de)
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GitLab Web IDE (about.gitlab.com)
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Earliest images of the moon were much better than we realised (www.worldofindie.co.uk)
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Neural scene representation and rendering (deepmind.com)
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Datasets for Machine Learning (gengo.ai)
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Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web (blog.torproject.org)
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Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals (rfpose.csail.mit.edu)
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Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks (www.ietf.org)
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AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner (variety.com)
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Birth Rates Dropped Most in Counties Where Home Values Grew Most (www.zillow.com)
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Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Alternatives to Google Products (restoreprivacy.com)
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Attacks against machine learning – an overview (elie.net)
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Why does a spray bottle work? (alexanderellis.github.io)
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JVM Internals (blog.jamesdbloom.com)
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Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok (www.factorio.com)
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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? (blog.growthbot.org)
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AI at Google: our principles (blog.google)
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Cutter – A Qt and C++ GUI for Radare2 reverse engineering framework (github.com)
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Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (2015) (jochen-hoenicke.de)
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State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending (techcrunch.com)
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Observations running 2M headless sessions (docs.browserless.io)
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub (www.bloomberg.com)
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Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Has Died (www.nytimes.com)
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MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018) (nancysbraintalks.mit.edu)
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OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II (github.com)
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Google quits selling tablets (techcrunch.com)
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California approves $768M for electric vehicles (www.sfchronicle.com)
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Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010) (arxiv.org)
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Gnome has moved to GitLab (about.gitlab.com)
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Intel Announces Optane DIMMs (www.anandtech.com)
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De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds (money.cnn.com)
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Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal (www.theguardian.com)
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How ‘Authentic Relating’ Made Vulnerability a Movement (2017) (www.theatlantic.com)
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An embedded database written in Rust (github.com)
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Python’s For - Else (book.pythontips.com)
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Analog Devices AD9361 – when microchips are more profitable than drugs (zeptobars.com)
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The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (azeria-labs.com)
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Harvard Classics Book Download (www.myharvardclassics.com)
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Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound (www.bbc.com)
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Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone (www.bloomberg.com)
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Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact (www.kiro7.com)
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Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions (www.ccn.com)
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013) (www.computerhistory.org)
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Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS (getstream.io)
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org (log.perl.org)
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82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding (www.aarp.org)
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Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread (www.nature.com)
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Libui: a portable GUI library for C (github.com)
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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign (wikipedia.fivefilters.org)
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Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook (digiday.com)
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An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression (www.novaspivack.com)
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The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written (www.quora.com)
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LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time (www.robertxiao.ca)
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Too Clever by Half (epsilontheory.com)
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HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud (www.howeycoins.com)
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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems (queue.acm.org)
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Completely Silent Computer (tp69.wordpress.com)
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Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers (www.statnews.com)
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Safe ways to do things in bash (github.com)
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EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME (efail.de)
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Make front end shit again (makefrontendshitagain.party)
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Google's Plan to Make Tech Less Addictive (www.fastcodesign.com)
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Reviving Smalltalk-78 (2014) [pdf] (freudenbergs.de)
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Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store (www.linuxuprising.com)
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (arxiv.org)
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Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60 (www.morbo.org)
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Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence (www.cs.cmu.edu)
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Study: Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely (foodtank.com)
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Beautiful Racket (www.beautifulracket.com)
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Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (ai.googleblog.com)
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)
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96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M (www.nytimes.com)
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Subscription Hell (techcrunch.com)
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AstroNavigation – A free course (my.vanderbilt.edu)
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Our Approach to Employee Security Training (www.pagerduty.com)
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NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report (www.reuters.com)
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Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch' (www.reuters.com)
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Is there a fix for impostor syndrome? (interactions.acm.org)
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Python startup time: milliseconds matter (mail.python.org)
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TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming (tic.computer)
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Facebook announces Clear History feature (www.facebook.com)
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You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? (twitter.com)
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IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) (www.rogerschank.com)
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Home Chip Fabrication in 66 Steps (sam.zeloof.xyz)
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StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations (streetlend.com)
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The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1 (groups.google.com)
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Make your own sourdough (github.com)
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NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google' (www.npr.org)
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Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called the i-motif inside cells (www.scimex.org)
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Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case (www.sacbee.com)
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A Well-Known Expert on Student Loans Is Not Real (www.chronicle.com)
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Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours (doublepulsar.com)
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Fast website link checker in Go (github.com)
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MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’ (motherboard.vice.com)
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Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia (blog.wikimedia.org)
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You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts (threadreaderapp.com)
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Inside the Linux boot process (2006) (www.ibm.com)
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My account is sending spam emails (productforums.google.com)
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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class (www.cjr.org)
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Google's Project Zero exposes unpatched Windows 10 lockdown bypass (www.zdnet.com)
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Smugmug Acquires Flickr (smugmug.com)
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Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines (www.npr.org)
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Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video] (batteryfreevideo.cs.washington.edu)
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB (www.foundationdb.org)
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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login (freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] (m.youtube.com)
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Facebook Container for Firefox (www.mozilla.org)
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GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere (www.graalvm.org)
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NirSoft Freeware (www.nirsoft.net)
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ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility (reactos.org)
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H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017) (www.propublica.org)
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My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter (severalnines.com)
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Scientific Communication As Sequential Art (2011) (worrydream.com)
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Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case (www.bbc.com)
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SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round (www.bloomberg.com)
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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017) (journals.plos.org)
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Fuchsia is not Linux (fuchsia.googlesource.com)
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Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70 (blog.bookandledger.com)
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ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files (github.com)
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Next generation video: Introducing AV1 (people.xiph.org)
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Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage (blog.travis-ci.com)
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How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS (arstechnica.com)
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The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user (jameshfisher.com)
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TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV (github.com)
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Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook (www.theguardian.com)
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I wandered off and built an IDE (blog.querystorm.com)
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System Shock 1 source code released under GPL (github.com)
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Linux Kernel Lockdown and UEFI Secure Boot (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project (www.nytimes.com)
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Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text (medium.com)
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Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B (techcrunch.com)
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We might be swinging away from the newsfeed (www.ben-evans.com)
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Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel (www.bloomberg.com)
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Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks (www.quantamagazine.org)
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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service (blog.cloudflare.com)
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Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted (nymag.com)
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It's time to head back to RSS? (www.wired.com)
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Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks (news.berkeley.edu)
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Former Equifax Executive Charged with Insider Trading (www.sec.gov)
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FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services (www.fcc.gov)
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Ripple fully funded every live project on DonorsChoose.org yesterday (www.donorschoose.org)
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OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS (www.openbazaar.org)
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Au Revoir (blog.docker.com)
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Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA (www.craigslist.org)
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The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees (www.gsb.stanford.edu)
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Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5 (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident (twitter.com)
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Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M (techcrunch.com)
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Blocklist Facebook domains (2016) (github.com)
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Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors (github.com)
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Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation (www.nytimes.com)
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Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street (www.reuters.com)
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Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia (blog.pizzabox.computer)
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B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010) (queue.acm.org)
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Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture (www.theguardian.com)
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Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook (newsroom.fb.com)
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The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization (www.filfre.net)
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Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election (techcrunch.com)
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Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year (techcrunch.com)
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Git Magic (www-cs-students.stanford.edu)
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Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud (www.sec.gov)
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Stephen Hawking has died (www.bbc.com)
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Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps (repl.it)
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Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript (roughjs.com)
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TLS 1.3 and Proxies (www.imperialviolet.org)
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Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012) (github.com)
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The Rubik's Contraption (build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com)
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Round Peg in a Square Hole [video] (www.youtube.com)
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FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites (spectrum.ieee.org)
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A Career Cold Start Algorithm (boz.com)
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Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life (www.conwaylife.com)
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Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time (petapixel.com)
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All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate (techcrunch.com)
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Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System (www.entsoe.eu)
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Coinbase Index Fund (blog.coinbase.com)
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First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (www.esa.int)
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Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe (techcrunch.com)
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Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve (www.quantamagazine.org)
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Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord (jalopnik.com)
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Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit (www.amazon.com)
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Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s (boglin.iwarp.com)
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Machine Learning Crash Course (developers.google.com)
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Spotify Form F-1 (www.sec.gov)
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Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS (d.tube)
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Pricing low-touch SaaS (stripe.com)
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Nobody's just reading your code (akkartik.name)
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Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia (www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)
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How poverty changes your mindset (review.chicagobooth.edu)
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In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better (www.nytimes.com)
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Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell (arxiv.org)
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Dropbox S-1 (www.sec.gov)
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Show HN: Hacker News Classics (jsomers.net)
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Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum (www.computerhistory.org)
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Signal Foundation (signal.org)
On HN | |
Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k/mo (www.starterstory.com)
On HN | |
The Business of SaaS (stripe.com)
On HN | |
Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011) (johanneskopf.de)
On HN | |
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS (mrale.ph)
On HN | |
Ask HN: What has HN given you? (news.ycombinator.com)
On HN | |
Asciinema 2.0 (blog.asciinema.org)
On HN | |
How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve (github.com)
On HN | |
MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images (bombich.com)
On HN | |
The case for ending Amazon’s dominance (timharford.com)
On HN | |
OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble (blog.emacsen.net)
On HN | |
The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books (www.pathsensitive.com)
On HN | |
Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String (manishearth.github.io)
On HN | |
Email is your electronic memory (blog.fastmail.com)
On HN | |
AMP for email is a terrible idea (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
Shipping a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native (attardi.org)
On HN | |
Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning (www.argmin.net)
On HN | |
Let’s talk about usernames (www.b-list.org)
On HN | |
Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI (scotthelme.co.uk)
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Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing (krausefx.com)
On HN | |
Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time (www.independent.co.uk)
On HN | |
Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement (www.uber.com)
On HN | |
Science’s Pirate Queen (www.theverge.com)
On HN | |
John Perry Barlow has died (www.eff.org)
On HN | |
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (socket3.wordpress.com)
On HN | |
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice (www.reuters.com)
On HN | |
Modern CSS Explained (medium.com)
On HN | |
RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language (dl.acm.org)
On HN | |
“Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996) (amasci.com)
On HN | |
How Google Chrome’s new ad blocker works (www.ctrl.blog)
On HN | |
Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts (blog.positive.com)
On HN | |
John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google (www.spectrum.ieee.org)
On HN | |
Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties (blog.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine (www.sparkfun.com)
On HN | |
Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS (www.redhat.com)
On HN | |
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
LinuxBoot (www.linuxboot.org)
On HN | |
Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability (www.securityweek.com)
On HN | |
Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf] (lsub.org)
On HN | |
‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs (krebsonsecurity.com)
On HN | |
The Follower Factory (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense (www.atlasobscura.com)
On HN | |
Extensions in Firefox 59 (blog.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive (skyriddles.wordpress.com)
On HN | |
Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
Waze Carpool (www.waze.com)
On HN | |
Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean (www.outsideonline.com)
On HN | |
Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Ursula Le Guin has died (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Facebook open-sources Detectron (research.fb.com)
On HN | |
Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal (thehill.com)
On HN | |
The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 (www.dwmkerr.com)
On HN | |
Brushing up on operating systems and C programming (www.shubhro.com)
On HN | |
Intel Has a Big Problem (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections (objective-see.com)
On HN | |
U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars (www.reuters.com)
On HN | |
Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere (fosdem.org)
On HN | |
JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake (jspaint.ml)
On HN | |
Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler (hacks.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality (blog.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
Google Memory Loss (www.tbray.org)
On HN | |
Chinese Text Project (ctext.org)
On HN | |
Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview (web.stanford.edu)
On HN | |
Rust in 2018: easier to use (jvns.ca)
On HN | |
Aaron, 5 years later (www.bensw.com)
On HN | |
An Experimental Course on Operating Systems (web.stanford.edu)
On HN | |
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (qz.com)
On HN | |
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype (signal.org)
On HN | |
Turning brain signals into useful information (www.economist.com)
On HN | |
The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won (robert.ocallahan.org)
On HN | |
Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnerability report (letsencrypt.status.io)
On HN | |
Meltdown Proof-of-Concept (github.com)
On HN | |
Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (randomascii.wordpress.com)
On HN | |
JVM Anatomy Park (shipilev.net)
On HN | |
Linux-insides: Linux kernel load address randomization (github.com)
On HN | |
Many packages suddenly disappeared (github.com)
On HN | |
CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games (www.epicgames.com)
On HN | |
WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities (gulftech.org)
On HN | |
Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown (www.raspberrypi.org)
On HN | |
Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH (github.com)
On HN | |
Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
On HN | |
NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg (www.washingtonpost.com)
On HN | |
Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
On HN | |
SQL Keys in Depth (begriffs.com)
On HN | |
The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches (pythonsweetness.tumblr.com)
On HN | |
IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability (siguza.github.io)
On HN | |
Three Years on Google App Engine (blog.stephanbehnke.com)
On HN | |
Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time (spa.mnesty.com)
On HN | |
Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 (www.twistlock.com)
On HN | |
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance (www.apple.com)
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India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year (qz.com)
On HN | |
How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf] (www.blackhat.com)
On HN | |
Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) (digventures.com)
On HN | |
Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter (www.nycresistor.com)
On HN | |
Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps (github.com)
On HN | |
Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play? (highscalability.com)
On HN | |
NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbidden now (www.nvidia.com)
On HN | |
LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum (twitter.com)
On HN | |
The Effect of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing on American Mortality Patterns [pdf] (www.keithameyers.com)
On HN | |
How I went from programming to consulting (2012) (training.kalzumeus.com)
On HN | |
A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits (spectrum.ieee.org)
On HN | |
Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
On HN | |
Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers from Job Ads (www.propublica.org)
On HN | |
Google Maps' Moat (www.justinobeirne.com)
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WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities (www.reuters.com)
On HN | |
Design of a silicon quantum computer chip (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)
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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (www.righto.com)
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Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse (www.reddit.com)
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Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games (google.github.io)
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Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time (inews.co.uk)
On HN | |
WebAssembly Raytracer (sniklaus.com)
On HN | |
Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser (support.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to (docs.google.com)
On HN | |
How to Read Mathematics (www.people.vcu.edu)
On HN | |
How to get your first 100k active users (blog.winnie.com)
On HN | |
Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (www.sec.gov)
On HN | |
Exercism – Level up your programming skills (exercism.io)
On HN | |
Project Euler (projecteuler.net)
On HN | |
Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game (airma.sh)
On HN | |
Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) (dl.acm.org)
On HN | |
Decentralized Web Primer (www.gitbook.com)
On HN | |
Making a Game Boy game in 2017 (www.gamasutra.com)
On HN | |
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
Japan eyes startup visa program (asia.nikkei.com)
On HN | |
A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab (hacks.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
On HN | |
Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js (www.robinwieruch.de)
On HN | |
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence (distill.pub)
On HN | |
Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively (www.sciencedirect.com)
On HN | |
What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004) (www.newyorker.com)
On HN | |
CVS Is Said to Agree to Buy Aetna (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Dice Become Ordered When Stirred, Not Shaken (physics.aps.org)
On HN | |
Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive (robert.ocallahan.org)
On HN | |
Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands (www.upguard.com)
On HN | |
Suicide by Culture (250bpm.com)
On HN | |
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) (news.ycombinator.com)
On HN | |
A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages (www.openculture.com)
On HN | |
System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan (blog.system76.com)
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As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (plumshell.com)
On HN | |
AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure (aws.amazon.com)
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Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year (www.wdc.com)
On HN | |
Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed (www.business-review.eu)
On HN | |
Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp, owner of Family Circle and AllRecipes (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default (www.hellorust.com)
On HN | |
Simplified and community-driven man pages (tldr.sh)
On HN | |
My unusual hobby (www.stephanboyer.com)
On HN | |
Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code (github.com)
On HN | |
A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm (www.washingtonpost.com)
On HN | |
Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server (glowstone.net)
On HN | |
“I thought I could ship at least 700 units to stay in business” (www.gamasutra.com)
On HN | |
Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers (gophercises.com)
On HN | |
Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
Tether Critical Announcement (tether.to)
On HN | |
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will (m.nautil.us)
On HN | |
How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012) (www.greenteapress.com)
On HN | |
Span<T> in C# (github.com)
On HN | |
Matrix Calculus (www.matrixcalculus.org)
On HN | |
Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux (arstechnica.com)
On HN | |
Tesla Roadster (www.tesla.com)
On HN | |
Security alerts on GitHub (github.com)
On HN | |
Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011) (avichal.com)
On HN | |
Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom (blog.atom.io)
On HN | |
A Guide to Natural Language Processing (tomassetti.me)
On HN | |
Using SVG as image placeholders (medium.com)
On HN | |
How Firefox Got Fast Again (hacks.mozilla.org)
On HN | |
Uber confirms SoftBank has agreed to invest (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic (www.gwern.net)
On HN | |
A Visual Guide to Evolution Strategies (blog.otoro.net)
On HN | |
Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant (ha.cking.ch)
On HN | |
RSS: there's nothing better (davidyat.es)
On HN | |
History of AOL Warez (peteflow.blogspot.com)
On HN | |
Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation (www.justice.gov)
On HN | |
Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies (medium.com)
On HN | |
Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
An Open Letter to Intel (www.cs.vu.nl)
On HN | |
Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends (aerolab.co)
On HN | |
Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1 (jaycarlson.net)
On HN | |
Does anyone remember websites? (tttthis.com)
On HN | |
Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works (tim.hibal.org)
On HN | |
What is backpropagation and what is it actually doing? [video] (www.youtube.com)
On HN | |
Neugram – Scripting in Go (neugram.io)
On HN | |
Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed (rapidcityjournal.com)
On HN | |
USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion (arstechnica.co.uk)
On HN | |
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (www.neustadt.fr)
On HN | |
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017) (news.ycombinator.com)
On HN | |
Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative (www.airbornos.com)
On HN | |
HTTP 103 approved as new status code (datatracker.ietf.org)
On HN | |
F* – An ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification (fstar-lang.org)
On HN | |
When did the golden age of The Simpsons end? (www.nathancunn.com)
On HN | |
One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks (arxiv.org)
On HN | |
Crystal in Production: Diploid (crystal-lang.org)
On HN | |
Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, Variation [video] (www.youtube.com)
On HN | |
The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service (open.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes (www.theparisreview.org)
On HN | |
Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects (www.nature.com)
On HN | |
Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect (www.fastcodesign.com)
On HN | |
How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability (blog.canny.io)
On HN | |
SSH Escape Sequences (lonesysadmin.net)
On HN | |
United States Census Bureau APIs (www.census.gov)
On HN | |
Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages (www.arxiv-vanity.com)
On HN | |
Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China (www.wsj.com)
On HN | |
A newly discovered moon tunnel (www.washingtonpost.com)
On HN | |
How Retailers Use Personalized Prices (hbr.org)
On HN | |
Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design (blog.prototypr.io)
On HN | |
Iceland's attempts to replant its forests (www.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Printers Meant to Make Rockets (www.bloomberg.com)
On HN | |
Why Ruby App Servers Break on MacOS High Sierra (blog.phusion.nl)
On HN | |
75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (journals.plos.org)
On HN | |
Documenting the Web together (blogs.windows.com)
On HN | |
Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime (github.com)
On HN | |
Show HN: Metaballs (varun.ca)
On HN | |
Falling through the KRACKs (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
On HN | |
ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source (www.eso.org)
On HN | |
What is Nix and why you should try it (yakking.branchable.com)
On HN | |
Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead, but His Offspring Are All Right (mobile.nytimes.com)
On HN | |
Some Insights from a Julia Developer (www.stochasticlifestyle.com)
On HN | |
IGN acquires Humble Bundle (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U (techcrunch.com)
On HN | |
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (github.com)
On HN | |
Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going (mesosphere.com)
On HN | |
Please take care of my plant (www.pleasetakecareofmyplant.com)
On HN | |
Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music (hackernoon.com)
On HN | |
The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case (www.dreamhost.com)
On HN | |
Disabling the Intel Management Engine (wiki.gentoo.org)
On HN | |
150 days of living and coding in a van (ruby-on-wheels.github.io)
On HN | |
Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp (robertheaton.com)
On HN | |
Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time (www.db.com)
On HN | |
Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger (robert.ocallahan.org)
On HN | |
Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
On HN | |
Sorting Visualizations (imgur.com)
On HN | |
Generate avatars from user initials (ui-avatars.com)
On HN | |
Adafruit acquires RadioShack (twitter.com)
On HN | |
Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin Accused of Racketeering, trade secrets theft (www.mercurynews.com)
On HN | |
Security.txt (securitytxt.org)
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