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A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms (twitter.com)

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Update: Looking Glass Add-On (blog.mozilla.org)

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Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county (www.freep.com)

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10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned (andrewchen.co)

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Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin (medium.com)

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Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms in Sleep (npr.org)

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Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care? (tomassetti.me)

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Building a Deep Learning Camera with a Raspberry Pi and YOLO (www.makeartwithpython.com)

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Complete design of a silicon quantum computer chip unveiled (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)

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What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World (www.nytimes.com)

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Improving my productivity using Pomodoro: takeaways after 2 years of practice (mehdi.cherti.name)

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Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help (www.theguardian.com)

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How traders 'pump and dump' cryptocurrencies (uk.businessinsider.com)

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What are the complex numbers, really? (robjlow.blogspot.com)

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Moving from Disqus to schnack. An easy to use and open source commenting system (blog.webkid.io)

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How do Ruby and Python profilers work? (jvns.ca)

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Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem (blog.kubernetes.io)

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Overture JS: FastMail's web app library (overturejs.com)

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A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (staltz.com)

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How Land Registry data reveals London’s secret tunnels (whoownsengland.org)

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XMR mining app, built with Vue.js, D3 and CoinHive (github.com)

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China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars (www.thedrive.com)

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Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut (www.bloomberg.com)

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Exploiting Windows 10 in a Local Network with WPAD/PAC and JScript (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Kernel debugging for newbies (www.alexlambert.com)

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Intel vs GlobalFoundries at the leading edge (www.semiwiki.com)

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Since 1700, Wine Glasses Have Gotten 7 Times Bigger (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Show HN: All Politicians in Switzerland (politiker-politicien-politici.ch)

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Colly – Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang (github.com)

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Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI (item?id=15951647)

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Dynamic Tracing a Pony and Python Program with DTrace (blog.wallaroolabs.com)

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Keras and deep learning on the Raspberry Pi (www.pyimagesearch.com)

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Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do (www.nytimes.com)

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Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle (bundlephobia.com)

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U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack (www.reuters.com)

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Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk' (www.theguardian.com)

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The Real Danger to Civilization Isn't AI. It's Runaway Capitalism (www.buzzfeed.com)

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Bitcoin Climbs as Futures Debut Fails to Incite Attack by Shorts (www.bloomberg.com)

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The simple process of re-identifying patients in public health records (pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)

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Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasonal Tips (www.nytimes.com)

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A Small Fintech Stock Surged 2,400% After Announcing It’s a Crypto Company (www.bloomberg.com)

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A Look at the Internals of 'Tiered JIT Compilation' in .NET Core (www.mattwarren.org)

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Belgium ends 19th-Century telegram service (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Cr – Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency (github.com)

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The Indie Web movement (2013) (www.wired.com)

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New York City Moves to Create Accountability for Algorithms (www.propublica.org)

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Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior (blog.twitter.com)

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What Bitcoin shows us about how money works (www.bzarg.com)

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Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music (alestsurko.by)

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This old drug was free. Now it’s $109,500 a year (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (hackernoon.com)

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Chainer Chemistry: A Library for Deep Learning in Biology and Chemistry (preferredresearch.jp)

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Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S (www.npr.org)

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Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False (motherboard.vice.com)

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China's Nio takes on Tesla with a car half the price of Model X (www.cnbc.com)

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At the Solstice, in Praise of Darkness (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Dependabot – Automated Dependency Update PRs for Ruby, JS, Python and PHP (https://dependabot.com)

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The Next 5 Years of Chip Technology (semiengineering.com)

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China’s Plan to Keep Sand from Swallowing the World (www.motherjones.com)

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OpenEMR is Accepting Donations on OpenCollective (www.openemr.blog)

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Osquery: Change license to Apache 2.0 and GPLv2 (github.com)

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Ask HN: Flexible, lightweight build automation/CI tool? (item?id=15954551)

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Show HN: Encrypt your home-lab server disks using AWS Key Management Service (github.com)

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Show HN: Delaunay Triangulating Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower Paintings (modalduality.org)

37 points first seen 2017121921 last seen 2017122018 10 comments

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Unsupervised Machine Learning on Rigetti 19Q with Forest 1.2 (medium.com)

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Remote LD_PRELOAD Exploitation (www.elttam.com.au)

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Pixel Buds review: OK Google, go back to the earbud drawing board (arstechnica.com)

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Plex Introduces Plexamp (medium.com)

33 points first seen 2017121909 last seen 2017122003 28 comments

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Evolving Stable Strategies (blog.otoro.net)

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A Response to REST Is the New SOAP (philsturgeon.uk)

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The Agricultural Revolution a Mistake? Not If You Count Food Processing (2016) (www.rachellaudan.com)

29 points first seen 2017121921 last seen 2017122100 15 comments

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Ask HN: Ruby or Python for 2018? (item?id=15955527)

28 points first seen 2017121909 last seen 2017121921 29 comments

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Diffix: High-Utility Database Anonymization [pdf] (aircloak.com)

28 points first seen 2017121921 last seen 2017122018 5 comments

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Humble “Be a Coder” Book Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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Visual to Sound: Generating Natural Sound for Videos in the Wild (arxiv.org)

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Programming for Grade 8 (henrikwarne.com)

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Canon printers found using very outdated (NSA backdoored) encryption standard (www.ietf.org)

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Ask HN: How do you get the most out of HN? (item?id=15953287)

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Aggressive WordPress Brute Force Attack Campaign Started Today (www.wordfence.com)

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Ivy for Bitcoin: a smart contract language that compiles to Bitcoin Script (blog.chain.com)

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How to build your own Ethereum based token and launch an ICO in next 20 minutes (hashnode.com)

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Writing My Own C++ Game Engine (preshing.com)

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Modulino: both script and module in Perl (perlmaven.com)

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Headphone Amplifiers (www.headphoneamp.co.kr)

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Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved monitor for programming? (item?id=15950381)

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C# – All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Highly Anonymous Cryptocurrency Monero Peeks Out of the Shadows (www.fastcompany.com)

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Will Apple Remove and Ban Xamarin and PhoneGap from the App Store in 2019? (www.nodesagency.com)

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Man Kidnapped Friend and Stole $1.8M of Ethereum – Viral Docks (viraldocks.com)

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Kaspersky Sues Trump Administration for Banning Its Software (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: Recommended Products for Home Office? – Dec 2017 (item?id=15954949)

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SSH Key Collision Found on GitHub (twitter.com)

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North Korea is behind WannaCry (www.wsj.com)

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Simulating Physics (www.news.ucsb.edu)

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Linux Performance: Why You Should Almost Always Add Swap Space (haydenjames.io)

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Virgin Hyperloop One raises $50M, Branson becomes chair (www.axios.com)

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A first look at RPG: turns out it's not only Role-Playing Games (www.viva64.com)

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The Battle of AI Processors Begins in 2018 (www.designnews.com)

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Deliverance from 27,000 feet (www.nytimes.com)

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Lessons from a YC company, after 3 years of trying to build it. (medium.com)

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Apple cracking down on template apps (9to5mac.com)

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Ask HN: How much are you making from self published ebooks? (item?id=15958226)

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Max Levchin on how his personal loans startup is misunderstood (www.inc.com)

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U.S. declares North Korea carried out massive WannaCry cyberattack (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Source-Level Decentralized Autonomous Organization (SDAO) (medium.com)

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C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law (esr.ibiblio.org)

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Show HN: Recommender Systems in Keras (nipunbatra.github.io)

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It’s Way Too Hard to Buy an Electric Car in Canada – 5 Times Harder Than the US (motherboard.vice.com)

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Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz (zwischenzugs.com)

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“Cumulative Code” smell (hackernoon.com)

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Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert 'An Idiot' and Says Public Transport 'Sucks' (fortune.com)

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Decentraland shows the potential of blockchain and VR combined (venturebeat.com)

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Deliverance from 27,000 feet (www.nytimes.com)

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Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county (boingboing.net)

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'He began to eat Hermione's family': bot tries to write Harry Potter book (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: SSID Ticker – showing current Common Air Quality Index in SSID (github.com)

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Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music (pitchfork.com)

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Apple to close iTunes store in 2019 (weraveyou.com)

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Ep 23: Test Pilot to Astronaut – NASA (www.nasa.gov)

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Millennium prize problems (uk.businessinsider.com)

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Electronic Christmas Card (dornerworks.com)

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Facebook’s Top Open Data Problems (research.fb.com)

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Able Health is hiring Rails engineers to help doctors improve care (ablehealth.com)

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Join Kodable and help teach over 10M kids to code (angel.co)

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