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Apple introduces 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook (www.apple.com)

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John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (www.facebook.com)

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Brave launches 1.0 – offers 3-6x faster browsing (brave.com)

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AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (google.github.io)

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GitHub Archive Program (archiveprogram.github.com)

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Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city (www.bbc.com)

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Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M (techcrunch.com)

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Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues (www.quantamagazine.org)

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GitHub for Mobile (github.com)

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Show HN: Can a neural network predict if your HN post title will get up votes? (github.com)

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Private Equity company acquires .Org registry (domainnamewire.com)

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Show HN: Workouts – Learn by doing real developer projects (real.dev)

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Nike won’t sell directly to Amazon anymore (www.cnbc.com)

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The 16-Inch MacBook Pro (marco.org)

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The Problem with Diamonds Is They Keep Getting Cheaper (www.bloomberg.com)

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Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance–Banking (www.wsj.com)

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Venice Floods Because of Highest Tide in 50 Years (www.nytimes.com)

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AWS Data Exchange (aws.amazon.com)

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Helm (the Kubernetes package manager) 3.0.0 has been released (helm.sh)

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How internet ads work (michelenasti.com)

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Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs (www.foxbusiness.com)

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The NYPD kept an illegal database of juvenile fingerprints for years (theintercept.com)

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Go.dev: a new hub for Go developers (blog.golang.org)

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What people get paid to work in journalism (www.cjr.org)

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We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance (blog.torproject.org)

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A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard (www.oodaloop.com)

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Ask HN: Why so many startups claim “machine learning” is their long game? (item?id=21528246)

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Microsoft Comic Chat (en.wikipedia.org)

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Comparison of CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) and GDPR [pdf] (www.bakerlaw.com)

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Show HN: A powerful but retro and minimalist IDE (github.com)

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Using Python to generate JavaScript for creating interactive website tours (github.com)

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Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (www.bigmessowires.com)

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We’re Rewarding the Question Askers (stackoverflow.blog)

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The Perl Master Plan: How to Put Perl Back on Top (perlmasterplan.com)

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Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket (https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com)

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Weird Number (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Road to Brave 1.0 (brave.com)

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AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's (www.spiegel.de)

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Can the long-lost abalone make a comeback in California? (www.latimes.com)

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Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease (arstechnica.com)

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Oslo's Ambitious Plan to Decarbonize Its Port (www.citylab.com)

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Nature’s survey of 6k grad students reveals the turbulence of doctoral research (www.nature.com)

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Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping (news.mit.edu)

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We shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s microscopic marketshare (valdyas.org)

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We’re Rewarding the Question Askers (stackoverflow.blog)

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Dynamicland and the Whimsical Digital Object: Analoguing the Digital (www.cabinetmagazine.org)

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Disney, IP, and “Returns to Marginal Affinity” (www.matthewball.vc)

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How to turn the complex mathematics of vector calculus into simple pictures (www.technologyreview.com)

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Handel and the Bank of England (bankunderground.co.uk)

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Show HN: My Weekend Project, AutoSSL (https://autossl.co)

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Big Oil’s New Favorite Toy: Supercomputers (2018) (www.wsj.com)

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Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (www.vice.com)

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Black Facebook staff describe workplace racism in anonymous letter (www.theguardian.com)

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Uruguay's detective of despair (www.washingtonexaminer.com)

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Ask HN: What are your favorite freelance developer websites? (item?id=21524780)

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Wpcom – A curated directory of resources and tools for WordPress (https://www.wpcom.org)

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‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn (www.theguardian.com)

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Three Mysterious Philanthropists Fund Fourth-Largest U.S. Charity (2014) (www.bloomberg.com)

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Google App Engine (GAE) will no longer have a standard free tier (techtudor.blogspot.com)

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How Fritzing is killing itself (bowero.nl)

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Found: 17th-Century Warships at the Bottom of a Swedish Channel (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Tencent open sourced its distributed graph computing framework: Plato (github.com)

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iOS 13.3 Supports NFC, USB, and Lightning FIDO2-Compliant Security Keys (www.macrumors.com)

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MacBook Pro 16" First Impressions (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: A friend introduced me to a client, now he wants a 25% cut (item?id=21526331)

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Ask HN: How do you navigate prioritization in mature software teams? (item?id=21528715)

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Why British teachers are fleeing overseas (www.theguardian.com)

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UFO Witnesses Tell the Truth (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Logic Programming in C++ (wordsandbuttons.online)

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Monopolies cost Americans $300 a month (www.theguardian.com)

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New Graphcore IPU Benchmarks (www.graphcore.ai)

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EU confirms all new cars will be fitted with breathalysers from 2022 (uk.news.yahoo.com)

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Where Have All the Fragments Gone? (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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A64FX Arm Chip Gets a Big Push from Cray (www.nextplatform.com)

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A man who got his overweight cat into the passenger cabin of a plane (www.nytimes.com)

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‘Invisible barcodes’ could improve sorting of recycling [video] (www.bbc.com)

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GitHub faces more resignations in light of ICE contract (techcrunch.com)

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The Fall of “The Uber for Shipping” (www.failory.com)

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Trashing Teens (2007) (www.psychologytoday.com)

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Tracking smartphones is helping TfL update it’s Journey Planner (www.ianvisits.co.uk)

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Show HN: Hordes – A WebGL based 3D mmorpg in the browser (www.youtube.com)

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MacBook Pro 16-Inch (www.apple.com)

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NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident (www.schneier.com)

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A Very Fatal Murder (2018) [audio] (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: React Screenshot Test (github.com)

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Section 230 supporters turn on it, its critics rely on it (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Greta Thunberg leaves US with simple climate crisis message: vote (www.theguardian.com)

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On automation and the nature of mental effort (www.thinkautomation.com)

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Open Source Code Will Survive the Apocalypse in an Arctic Cave (www.bloomberg.com)

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Microsoft to Kids with Chromebooks: No 2019 Minecraft Hour of Code for You (slashdot.org)

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Flight 1080 (1978) [pdf] (www.tristar500.net)

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Riches from Rags (www.bloomberg.com)

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New MacBook Pro: Apple Executive Phil Schiller on How It Listened to Feedback (www.independent.co.uk)

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UC Berkeley instructor on rural Americans 'bad people..made bad life decisions’ (www.theblaze.com)

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Loie Fuller and the Serpentine (publicdomainreview.org)

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Scientists further refine how quickly the universe is expanding (phys.org)

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A Review of the recent Google paper about a user-space networking project Snap (tempesta-tech.com)

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A polar dinosaur feather assemblage from Australia (linkinghub.elsevier.com)

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Apple Is Trying to Kill Web Technology (medium.com)

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FPGAs that speak your language (cerncourier.com)

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AI outperforming 95% of professional handicappers predicting NFL games (unanimous.ai)

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DJI wants to let anyone with a smartphone monitor nearby drones (www.theverge.com)

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Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code – Serval (blog.acolyer.org)

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The thinking error at the root of science denial (theconversation.com)

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Coinbase (YC S12) Is Hiring iOS, Android, and React Native Engineers in SF (item?id=21531003)

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