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Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO (www.gamasutra.com)

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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning (dev.to)

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EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive (www.techdirt.com)

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Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore? (item?id=18945658)

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Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store (www.apple.com)

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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets (www.microsoft.com)

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I Nearly Lost All of My Data (kevq.uk)

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HandBrake 1.2.0 Released (handbrake.fr)

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Vitamin B1 deficiency at the heart of an environmental mystery (www.pnas.org)

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Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019 (zendev.com)

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Zkeme80 – A Forth-Based OS for the TI-84+ Calculator (github.com)

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Reahl 4.0: Build web apps in one language only (Python) (www.reahl.org)

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Darkstar: A Xerox Star Emulator (engblg.livingcomputers.org)

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Wikipedia cofounder: How and why I transitioned to Linux–how you can, too (larrysanger.org)

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My Parents Are Flat Earthers (jameshfisher.com)

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The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change (www.bloomberg.com)

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After 25 Years Studying Innovation, Here Is What I Have Learned (www.linkedin.com)

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Ask HN: Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do? (item?id=18950679)

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To cripple AI, hackers are turning data against itself (www.wired.co.uk)

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Michael Dell Gets $12B Richer with Break from Public Eye (www.bloomberg.com)

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Remotely compromise devices by using bugs in Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi (embedi.org)

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Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs (www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com)

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Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data (www.nytimes.com)

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NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moon Titan (www.space.com)

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Mozart.js (adamjgrant.github.io)

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People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from articles (www.bu.edu)

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Fever effect (embraceasd.com)

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Purism Librem 5 Pre Order (puri.sm)

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Show HN: C++ Editor for Teaching How to Code (emun.ro)

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Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go (taskfile.org)

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OCaml bindings for PyTorch (github.com)

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Windows Subsystem for Linux Proves Linux Is Really GNU/Linux (mobile.twitter.com)

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Purism announces PureOS Store (puri.sm)

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Iridium Completes Constellation Replacement (www.flyingmag.com)

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EU cancels McDonald’s trademark for the Big Mac (slate.com)

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A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf] (www.microsoft.com)

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Open sourcing bioinstruments (liorpachter.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer (item?id=18948427)

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Learn about Neural Networks and Backpropagation (towardsdatascience.com)

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Show HN: Pipelines – Language for scripting parrallel pipelines with Python (github.com)

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Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015) (www.viva64.com)

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MRTHS's “Algol 68” blog post re: 1970 Ian/Susan and John “astounded the (mraths.org.uk)

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A Letter in Response to the ASA’s Statement on P-Values (errorstatistics.com)

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Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator series goes modular (www.factmag.com)

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VLC developers refuse to consider updates over HTTPS (trac.videolan.org)

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Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often? (item?id=18951008)

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Hitman Runner Mark Fellows Convicted of Murder on GPS Watch Data (www.runnersworld.com)

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Subsidizing Upstate New York Nuclear Power Plants More Expensive Than New Wind (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Carnegie Mellon launches free high school CS curriculum (www.cmu.edu)

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Tim Cook: 'It's Time for Action on Data Privacy' (daringfireball.net)

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Surprising Network Activity in the Immature Brain (maxplanck.nautil.us)

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Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they are a piece of art (http://www.finewordclocks.com)

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Driverless Cars Tap the Brakes After Years of Hype (www.wsj.com)

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Atom 1.34 (blog.atom.io)

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Ethical bot-making (mewo2.com)

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Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) (groups.csail.mit.edu)

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30th anniversary of the Macintosh SE/30 (twitter.com)

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Instrumenting HTTP requests in Node (medium.com)

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Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate (phys.org)

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Tularosa Study: Experimental Quantify the Effectiveness of Cyber Deception [pdf] (scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu)

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Ask HN: What are your favorite board games? (item?id=18950649)

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Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei (www.theguardian.com)

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Ride That Nearly Killed Me Changed How I Think About Ride-Hailing Apps (www.bloomberg.com)

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Innovative robotics developments of the past year (techxplore.com)

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A Short Rebuttal to Searle (1984) [pdf] (ai.stanford.edu)

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As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice (2018) (www.newyorker.com)

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Companies are still designing open plan offices (www.fastcompany.com)

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Marie Kondo and the Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Soft Power (www.nytimes.com)

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Inside the Strange yet Profitable World of Retail Arbitrage (melmagazine.com)

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Top-Performing College Grads Fall into the ‘Prestige Career’ Trap (medium.com)

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Suicides among veterinarians become a growing problem (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Drunkard’s Progress: Alcohol in 19th Century America (medium.com)

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GM plant where nooses and 'whites-only' signs hung (2019) (www.cnn.com)

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Leaked emails show Apple tried to use Qualcomm modems in iPhone XS/XR (9to5mac.com)

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Slandering the Unborn (2018) (www.nytimes.com)

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Dell returns to public stock market after years as private company (www.theverge.com)

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An open letter to the mathematical community (www.mcsweeneys.net)

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Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a 'Wrecked' Novel (2010) (www.theatlantic.com)

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Swift-sh (nshipster.com)

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Show HN: Colony Ant Simulator with Python3 (github.com)

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GeoServer 2.14.2 Released (blog.geoserver.org)

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Google Maps will now display speed limits for its Android and iOS apps (www.theverge.com)

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DDD, event sourcing and CQRS – theory and practice (www.youtube.com)

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MySQL server has access to client-side filesystem (twitter.com)

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I've wanted enumerable classes for *so long* (abe-winter.github.io)

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‘It’s like hell here’: Australia bakes as record temperatures nudge 50C (www.theguardian.com)

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Changing email address on Twitter for Android unsets “Protect your Tweets” (hackerone.com)

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Maskless photolithographic system using low-cost projector and microscope (2005) [pdf] (web.archive.org)

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Oracle systematically underpaid thousands of women, lawsuit says (www.theguardian.com)

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An epic Twitter thread on venture capital, startups, and zebras (siliconflorist.com)

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Understand TensorFlow by mimicking its API from scratch (medium.com)

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BlackRock Exposes Confidential Data on Thousands of Advisers on iShares Site (www.bloomberg.com)

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Unstoppable Upward (www.lrb.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Options for distributed peer-to-peer image datasets? (item?id=18947109)

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Towards a hands-free query optimizer through deep learning (blog.acolyer.org)

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Steps on How to Setup Your Business Goals for 2019 (hackernoon.com)

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Free EBook from Microsoft: Azure for Architects [pdf] (azure.microsoft.com)

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Persisting Fast in Database with LOAD DATA and COPY (medium.com)

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Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots (www.wsj.com)

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