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Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you (hiringengineersbook.com)

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Programming Fonts – Test Drive (app.programmingfonts.org)

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Windows 98 Icons are Great (alexmeub.com)

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Kubernetes Failure Stories (srcco.de)

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B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens (http://b612-font.com)

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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Students learn from people they love (www.nytimes.com)

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Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls (write.as)

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Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam (twitter.com)

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Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids (www.citylab.com)

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NumPy 1.16 released as the last version to support Python2 (github.com)

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Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus (twitter.com)

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Cleaning New York's filthy harbor with one billion oysters (www.cnn.com)

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Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple (github.com)

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Inside the C Standard Library (begriffs.com)

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Decidim: Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations (decidim.org)

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Ferrock: A Stronger, Greener Alternative to Concrete? (buildabroad.org)

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Google launches an AI contest for social good (ai.google)

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Amazon Ruined Online Shopping (www.theatlantic.com)

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3Blue1Brown: So why do colliding blocks compute pi? [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog (blog.joinmastodon.org)

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An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989) – now free for download (www.realtimerendering.com)

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MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file (gwillem.gitlab.io)

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Best Display for Programming? (hackernoon.com)

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Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf] (www.gnuradio.org)

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Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger (item?id=18954890)

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A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic (vanemden.wordpress.com)

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RE:DOM – Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces (redom.js.org)

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OnSen UI: Mobile Web App (Vue.js) (onsen.io)

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Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants (twitter.com)

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Gömböc (en.wikipedia.org)

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My Life After a Heart Attack at 38 (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl (github.com)

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Japan's Rail Workers Can't Stop Pointing at Things (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble (www.bloomberg.com)

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JavaScript iterator patterns (loige.co)

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Ask HN: How to deal with internet addiction? (item?id=18953356)

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Technology’s dark forest (techcrunch.com)

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JupyterLab (jupyterlab.readthedocs.io)

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Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city (www.vox.com)

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Covariance and contravariance in C++ (quuxplusone.github.io)

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How To Edit A Low-Budget Blockbuster [video] (www.youtube.com)

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World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam (www.theguardian.com)

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Mapping the Brain at High Resolution (news.mit.edu)

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You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better (www.inc.com)

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Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor (www.livoxtech.com)

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Show HN: List of serverless failure stories (github.com)

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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right? (www.wired.com)

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Intro to Docker, React, and Security (gooddebate.org)

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Torrent Paradise Creates Decentralized 'Pirate Bay' with IPFS (torrentfreak.com)

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Economics of Spotify is making songs shorter (qz.com)

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Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms [video] (www.bbc.com)

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Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct (nautil.us)

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Planning scientific equipment for Antarctic conditions (www.antarctica.gov.au)

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Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Characteristics in Music (www.aes.org)

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Lime scooters are causing some issues for Brisbane's vision impaired community (www.abc.net.au)

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Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career–and its own guitars, software (arstechnica.com)

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Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve (2018) (www.quantamagazine.org)

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How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat (www.economist.com)

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Altruistic Autonomy: Beating Congestion on Shared Roads (ai.stanford.edu)

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Understandable Ray Tracing in 256 lines of bare C++ (github.com)

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What MDMA Therapy Did for Me (medium.com)

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Capsule Networks- the New Deep Learning Network (towardsdatascience.com)

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Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (brontecapital.blogspot.com)

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Zorp: a next generation, open source proxy firewall (zorp-gpl-tutorial.readthedocs.io)

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German Addresses are Blocked: www.gutenberg.org (block.pglaf.org)

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Some Thoughts on Open Core (www.linuxjournal.com)

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Ducati CEO confirms ‘The future is electric’, says electric Ducati is coming (electrek.co)

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Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football (www.nytimes.com)

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'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism (www.theguardian.com)

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Is It Time to Regulate Social Media Influencers? (nymag.com)

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Walking Normally: the Facts (2013) (www.newyorker.com)

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Machinima, one of YouTube’s biggest and oldest channels, goes dark (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: Drymail – A minimalist but complete email framework for Python (github.com)

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Show HN: Use Chrome Headless in the Cloud from the Browser (webautomation.guru)

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Animations by a NASA Scientist Show the Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow (www.sciencealert.com)

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Wifi antenna made from a tetra-brik juice box (www.drivebywifiguide.com)

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Homelessness on campus: The toughest test faced by college students in America (www.cbsnews.com)

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Internet blackouts in Zimbabwe, the DRC, and Gabon are a sign of what's to come (slate.com)

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Csvtk – a cross-platform, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit (bioinf.shenwei.me)

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Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake (www.improbable.com)

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Utah starting $2.5M debt forgiveness program for tech grads (www.ksl.com)

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From Google Sheet to #5 on ProductHunt in 10 days (medium.com)

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World's oldest man dies in Japan at age 113 (www.theguardian.com)

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Urs Hölzle: Reconciling High Performance with Exploratory Programming (1994) [pdf] (i.stanford.edu)

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Ask HN: Trying to be more Gmail-independent with Gandi and email forwarding (item?id=18955339)

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Text-based Template Engine for C++ (github.com)

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When Is Haskell More Useful Than R or Python in Data Science? (www.forbes.com)

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Is the Universe a conscious mind? (2018) (aeon.co)

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Gut Bacteria Protects Against Food Allergies (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

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Solving the wedding table problem in prolog (tomvladeck.com)

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Microservice envy (www.thoughtworks.com)

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Meaning of snafu, clusterfuck, and shitshow: There's a difference (qz.com)

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