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Terry Jones has died (www.bbc.com)

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U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report (www.reuters.com)

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Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics (dev.to)

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TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages (tldr.sh)

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Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

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U.S. surveillance laws failed to counter terrorism, turn citizens into suspects (theprivacyissue.com)

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How housing became the world’s biggest asset class (www.economist.com)

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Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs (www.vice.com)

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Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall (www.archaeology-world.com)

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250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web (www.comparitech.com)

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City Roads – The website that renders every single road within a city (anvaka.github.io)

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I2C in a Nutshell (interrupt.memfault.com)

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Show HN: Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter (dustycloud.org)

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uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp (www.ulisp.com)

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Retiring Internet Explorer (textslashplain.com)

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Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source (github.blog)

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The strange properties of the infinite power tower (arxiv.org)

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The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org (prospect.org)

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‘Matryoshka’ diamonds unearthed in Siberia (2019) (siberiantimes.com)

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Float Toy (evanw.github.io)

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Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS (awesomekling.github.io)

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Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (arxiv.org)

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Tesla races past $100B in market valuation (www.reuters.com)

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World’s consumption of materials hits record 100bn tonnes a year (www.theguardian.com)

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Front (YC S14) raises $59M round led by other tech CEOs (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft had shifted at least $39B in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico (www.propublica.org)

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Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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Public Transport in Wuhan Suspended Due to Coronavirus Concerns (www.npr.org)

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Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in the Linux Kernel [pdf] (outflux.net)

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Show HN: A Simple Way to Setup/Build/Deploy React App and API on GKE/Kubernetes (adaptjs.org)

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Real-Time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python (www.poeticoding.com)

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A plant that seems to remember (2015) (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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GitHub: Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source (github.blog)

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First Node.js-Based Ransomware: Nodera (blogs.quickheal.com)

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Ever-growing cars: why they keep on getting wider (www.autocar.co.uk)

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Show HN: An example GraphQL server written in Rust (github.com)

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Defenestration (en.wikipedia.org)

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Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman Compared Reporters to Sexual Predators (www.theinformation.com)

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Effective Collaboration with Product and Design (www.joshwcomeau.com)

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Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default browser (docs.microsoft.com)

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A Unix Quiz (2012) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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The Geocities Gallery (geocities.restorativland.org)

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Super-Spreader (en.wikipedia.org)

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Tesla can sell vehicles in Michigan under legal settlement (www.freep.com)

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Apple’s privacy software allowed users to be tracked, says Google (www.ft.com)

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Boeing's new CEO refuses to recognise culture problem, blames email authors (twitter.com)

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A website has “stolen” my program and reselling it (item?id=22118470)

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Gitlab 12.7 Release (about.gitlab.com)

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GhostBSD 20.01 (www.ghostbsd.org)

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Top three requirements for OTA software updates for IoT (mender.io)

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Show HN: UI-Editor, a Component Builder (github.com)

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EFF Statement on Glenn Greenwald Charges – Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

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Unito raises $10.5M to unify disparate enterprise apps and services (venturebeat.com)

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A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp (github.com)

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Brazil prosecutes Glenn Greenwald in “attack on press freedom” (arstechnica.com)

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My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (medium.com)

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Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier (www.livescience.com)

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Ask HN: What are the IRC servers that are available as onion service only (item?id=22117636)

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An experiment to allow different versions of the same web component on one page (open-wc.org)

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The Fall of Trada (2019) (www.doxsey.net)

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Can Real-Time strategy come back from the brink of death? – PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)

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Tesla crosses $100B stock market valuation in extended trading (www.reuters.com)

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Where's my simulator? Simulated effect absent from the programming experience (shalabh.com)

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The Growth Ponzi Scheme (2011) (www.strongtowns.org)

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We're Sleepwalking into a Surveillance State (www.nytimes.com)

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Implementing PyLucid (billwadge.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: How to Blend 'Minimalism/Low-Tech/Degrowth' with Software Development? (item?id=22121909)

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Microsoft update for Office 365 makes Bing default search engine in Chrome (docs.microsoft.com)

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Show HN: New drag and drop search engine (https://www.dropicon.com)

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Ask HN: What data points do POS systems send to Credit Card Companies / Banks? (item?id=22119417)

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Nuclear Power: Game over (2016) [pdf] (www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au)

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Near-Infinite-Lasting Power Sources Could Derive from Nuclear Waste (interestingengineering.com)

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Meshcoin [2017] (www.nycmesh.net)

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Chinese academic suspended for copying programming language (www.ft.com)

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Over 70% of 12- to 14-year-olds in China are short-sighted (www.economist.com)

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High-speed police chases have killed thousands of innocent bystanders (www.usatoday.com)

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IBM’s debating AI just got a lContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ot closer to being a useful tool (www.technologyreview.com)

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New Large Aerial Image Database for Agricultural Pattern Analysis (medium.com)

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The poo panacea: inside the strange, surprising world of faecal transplants (www.theguardian.com)

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The Unexpected Diversity of Pain (www.knowablemagazine.org)

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Amplemarket (YC W14) Seeks Senior Software Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal (item?id=22118101)

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