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I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days (blog.usejournal.com)

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Ask HN: How to self-study Mathematics from the Undergrad through graduate level? (item?id=18939913)

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Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test (www.cbc.ca)

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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2 (brechpunkt.de)

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MIDI 2.0 announced (www.midi.org)

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Costco opening a $440M chicken farm to escape America's chicken monopoly (www.cnbc.com)

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Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha (inkscape.org)

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Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years (www.bbc.com)

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Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America (www.wsj.com)

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What People Say Before They Die (www.theatlantic.com)

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Is C++ fast? (zeuxcg.org)

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Future of TypeScript on ESLint (eslint.org)

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Who Is horse_js? (whoishorsejs.com)

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Building CockroachDB on top of RocksDB (www.cockroachlabs.com)

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CNC milling with open source software (opensource.com)

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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016) (www.npr.org)

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To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: HTML5 Video Player in TypeScript (github.com)

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A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop (github.com)

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L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel (l4linux.org)

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Unofficial Open-Source Web Client my friends and I created (https://musi.sh)

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GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf] (octave.org)

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Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake (www.nature.com)

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Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change (www.bloomberg.com)

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Study Identifies Effective Mental Strategies for Going Thru Aversive Challenges (digest.bps.org.uk)

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Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017) (citizenlab.ca)

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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming (makecode.com)

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The Cerebellum Is Your “Little Brain”–and It Does Some Pretty Big Things (www.scientificamerican.com)

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The Art of Unix Programming (2003) (arp242.net)

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Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration (www.aboutchromebooks.com)

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Journalism,Patreon,SubscribeStar&being Collateral Damage in Western Culture Wars (medium.com)

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I was mistaken for a call girl (drugstoreculture.com)

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Nike’s auto-laced future (techcrunch.com)

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Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition (cityobservatory.org)

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Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review (chart.ly)

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Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches (jordanhall.co.uk)

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Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers (github.com)

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Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize (medium.com)

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Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL (www.espn.com)

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WiFi firmware bug affects laptops, smartphones, routers, gaming devices (www.zdnet.com)

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How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself (typesandtimes.net)

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No. 1 state for female entrepreneurs is Texas: Study (www.dallasnews.com)

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To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet (www.nytimes.com)

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FDA is considering drugs to help kids quit vaping (lite.cnn.io)

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Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages (arxiv.org)

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Object Detection: An End-to-End Theoretical Perspective (mlwhiz.com)

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Computer People for Peace (eli.naeher.name)

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GDPR complaints say Amazon, Spotify, and others are breaking EU law (www.theverge.com)

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Getting Answers (www.mikeash.com)

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Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed income (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, but in Opal (entomologytoday.org)

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I deleted My 118k follower Instagram (blog.yobenlee.com)

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Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Boris Artzybasheff’s Maps (makingmaps.net)

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We need ‘Goldilocks,’ not ‘voodoo,’ urbanism (www.cnu.org)

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Hey Google When did I ask you to read my purchase details (kanoki.org)

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An overflow error costing 500M dollars (1996) (around.com)

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Distributed Technologies Research (dtr.org)

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree (fivethirtyeight.com)

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Mainframe, Interrupted (logicmag.io)

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Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba (www.nytimes.com)

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Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery (www.kensodev.com)

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Nigeria has now lost 96% of it's forest. Here is an animated map to demonstrate (i.imgur.com)

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Chinese drone maker DJI uncovers corruption, sees $150M loss (sg.news.yahoo.com)

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Freno – Cooperative, highly-available throttler service (github.com)

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Facebook employees caught leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for Portal (www.businessinsider.com)

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Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (2009) [pdf] (psych.cf.ac.uk)

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RACK: a time-based fast loss detection algorithm for TCP (2018) (tools.ietf.org)

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M.U.L.E. for MSX2 (www.carpeludum.com)

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I Took a Couple Years Off of Work to Swing Trade. Here’s What Happened (theascent.pub)

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Rails 6.0.0 beta1 is released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones (www.cnbc.com)

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PG&E: The First Climate-Change Bankruptcy, Probably Not the Last (www.wsj.com)

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A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long (www.bbc.com)

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A 70 percent marginal rate could help, not hurt, innovation (www.theatlantic.com)

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RACK: a time-based fast loss detection algorithm for TCP (2018) (tools.ietf.org)

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Gay Penguins of Australia (www.nytimes.com)

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Developer Ecosystem Survey 2019 (surveys.jetbrains.com)

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Crapularity Aesthetics (makingandbreaking.org)

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A dirty secret that everybody in your industry knows about (twitter.com)

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25% of antibiotics prescribed in the US are unnecessary (qz.com)

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Openrsync – a clean-room implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license (github.com)

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Marie Kondo, Fast Fashion, and the Thrift-Store Boom (www.citylab.com)

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China’s Looming Crisis: A Shrinking Population (www.nytimes.com)

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Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.? (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Q2VKPT: Fully path-traced Quake 2 fork using RTX (brechpunkt.de)

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Only Race Cars Should Burnout (brettshavers.com)

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Inspiration to Reality: Exploring Generative Art (blog.gskinner.com)

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Netflix is burning through cash. This can't last forever (www.cnn.com)

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Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js (github.com)

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Netflix says Fortnite is bigger competition than HBO or Hulu (www.polygon.com)

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The Art of Snaring Dragons (1975) [pdf] (harveycohen.net)

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DeepLabCut: Deep learning based markerless pose estimation of user-defined parts (www.mousemotorlab.org)

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MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file by default (twitter.com)

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MIT researchers use Bayesian inference, a form of AI, to make computer programs (www.zdnet.com)

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Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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What It Costs to Maintain an Older House (www.theamericanconservative.com)

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Anonymous Amazon worker says they listen to unrecognized Alexa recordings (twitter.com)

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Boeing's radical wing design unveiled (www.cnn.com)

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Simone Giertz brain tumor is back (www.youtube.com)

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Natural Language Preprocessing (prakhartechviz.blogspot.com)

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Verizon will offer free spam protection to all of its customers (www.theverge.com)

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AngelList Year in Review, 2018 (angel.co)

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On Weaponised Design (ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org)

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Utah Shows How Labor-Force Growth Fuels Economic Growth (www.wsj.com)

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Why Jeff Bezos’ Divorce Should Worry Amazon Investors (www.nytimes.com)

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Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops (boingboing.net)

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To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers (quillette.com)

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Dutch Startup Converts Heat into Cold via a Stirling Engine (www.forbes.com)

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ZFS on Linux Landing Workaround for Linux 5.0 Kernel Support (www.phoronix.com)

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Print out your code. On paper (medium.com)

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From City of Blight to City of Light (lareviewofbooks.org)

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LibGyro – Low-Level Multimedia API (github.com)

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You can see through frosted glass by using clear tape (twitter.com)

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Google faces renewed protests and criticism over China search project (theintercept.com)

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Tesla to cut more than 3,000 jobs because cars 'still too expensive' (www.theguardian.com)

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Rare 'Super Blood Wolf Moon' will be visible this weekend (mashable.com)

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Shutdown is breaking government websites, one by one (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Operating System in 2018 (www.infoq.com)

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Ask HN: How to make Facebook forget me without access to my email? (item?id=18942695)

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Research Paper Abstract Mad Lib from MIT (twitter.com)

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50 shades of C++ - Nicolai Josuttis - Meeting C++ 2018 Closing Keynote (www.youtube.com)

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'Frenzy of hatred': The dramatic rise of far-right extremists (news.sky.com)

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Americans trust the military more than Big Tech to develop AI (diginomica.com)

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Using Creative Cold Emails to Acquire Customers (www.starterstory.com)

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Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: A Golang library to build Turing machine (made2591.github.io)

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HyPerledger Fabric – the 20 most important terms made simple (hackernoon.com)

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A u-blox GNSS receiver for orienteering mapping (github.com)

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Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL (www.espn.in)

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Elon Musk: Moving to Mars would cost about $200,000 (bigthink.com)

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Ask HN: What have you done with Raspberry Pi so far? (item?id=18946143)

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Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems? (www.reddit.com)

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Python Steering Council Nomination: Peter Wang (discuss.python.org)

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Google VP told employees to stop using the word “family” after staff complaints (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018 (firstround.com)

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Inscribe (YC S18) Is Hiring Software Engineers in Dublin, Ireland (hire.withgoogle.com)

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