hackerNews

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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison (twitter.com)

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USB-C Was Supposed to Simplify Our Lives. Instead, It’s a Total Mess (debugger.medium.com)

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My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf (www.reddit.com)

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We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020) (item?id=24651639)

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Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find (www.cbc.ca)

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Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity (phys.org)

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Commodore 64 Program Discovered on 35-Year Old Vinyl Album (popcultureretrorama.com)

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Germany fines H&M 35 million euros for data protection breaches (www.marketscreener.com)

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A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir (serokell.io)

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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop (www.wired.co.uk)

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The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs (marker.medium.com)

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Unfck the Internet (firefox.com)

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020) (item?id=24651637)

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Spamtoberfest (drewdevault.com)

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Tracking Mixed Bitcoins (arxiv.org)

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Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home (twitter.com)

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The internet needs our love (blog.mozilla.org)

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Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions (bernsteinbear.com)

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Programming Language notation is a Barrier to Entry (blog.sigplan.org)

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Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged (www.justice.gov)

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Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 100 (wildbit.com)

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GDPR Enforcement Tracker (www.enforcementtracker.com)

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Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF (https://pixielabs.ai)

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My prof gave me zero because ProctorU Review+ said that I was talking (twitter.com)

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Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data (puri.sm)

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Lossless Compression of English Short Messages (bellard.org)

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Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model (www.macrumors.com)

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Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds (www.cnet.com)

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Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3 (github.com)

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Discovery Suggests the Solar System Has Two Planes of Orbital Alignment (www.sciencealert.com)

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US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told (www.theguardian.com)

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EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement (www.theguardian.com)

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Programmers need to think like hackers (gexos.org)

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I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III (gizmodo.com)

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Microsoft says ‘configuration update’ caused global Outlook outage (www.cnbc.com)

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The Grand Design (2010) (blas.com)

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Google to Pay Publishers over $1B for News Content (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: How to Get into the Chip Industry (item?id=24649959)

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Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat (www.schneier.com)

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Memgraph DB 1.1 Up to 50% Better Memory Usage and Higher Throughput (memgraph.com)

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Update on our commitment to reducing spam in Hacktoberfest (hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com)

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Dick Costolo: Some Business Leaders Should Face a Firing Squad (www.forbes.com)

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CFTC charges BitMex with illegally operating derivatives exchange (cointelegraph.com)

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Segment Tree – Competitive Programming Algorithms (cp-algorithms.com)

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Form Follows Function: On Louis Sullivan’s Kindergarten Chats (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Web Neural Network API (webmachinelearning.github.io)

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ProtonMail Statement regarding BGP hijacking on September 29 (protonmail.com)

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Employee Works for Both Google and Facebook from Home (mobile.twitter.com)

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Show HN: I made a screen recorder for developers (https://vasai.app)

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Show HN: Automatic Tagging for Terraform (github.com)

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SF and NYC Tech Workers Are Moving to LA During Covid, Driving Housing Up 17% (dot.la)

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