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Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them (thorstenball.com)

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South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95% (www.weforum.org)

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Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police (www.nytimes.com)

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JSON as configuration files: please don’t (arp242.net)

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How a Single Raspberry Pi Made My Home Network Faster (www.brianchristner.io)

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The Web Developer's Guide to DNS (rjzaworski.com)

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The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism (www.newyorker.com)

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Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders (www.mdedge.com)

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Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange, Arrested in Ecuador (nypost.com)

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Aphex Twin Interviews Ex Korg Engineer about Synths, Microtuning, Math, & Dreams (item.warp.net)

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Smartphone Apps Are Filled with Trackers You Know Nothing About (onezero.medium.com)

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Construction has kept rent in Chongqing, China to $75 a month (www.nytimes.com)

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Organize a Study Group/Book Club/Online Group/Event: How to Do It (stephaniehurlburt.com)

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500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time (www.theguardian.com)

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Emissions fall in Madrid city center thanks to new traffic restrictions (elpais.com)

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Jsonnet – A data templating language (https://jsonnet.org)

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Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents (www.nytimes.com)

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I miss Facebook, and I'm not ashamed to admit it (cfenollosa.com)

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Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent (motherboard.vice.com)

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GCHQ Cracks Frank Sidebottom's Codes (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Languages I Want to Write (blog.wesleyac.com)

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Vladimir Komarov went on a space suicide mission to save his best friend, Yuri (twitter.com)

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Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive (www.bloomberg.com)

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Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype (www.smh.com.au)

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Norway aviation firm orders 60 all-electric airplanes, drops operation costs 80% (electrek.co)

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Infrastructure as Code, Part One (crate.io)

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Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement (www.nytimes.com)

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A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation [pdf] (venge.net)

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Chomsky on the arrest of Julian Assange [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting (github.com)

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Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware (https://www.berkeleyopenarms.org)

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50 Years of Data Science (2015) [pdf] (courses.csail.mit.edu)

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Understanding Zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples (blog.goodaudience.com)

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Apple censors song about Tiananmen Square protests (www.theverge.com)

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Compiling Dynamic Languages (2013) [pdf] (www2.imm.dtu.dk)

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Proliferation of hydrocarbon-degrading microbes at the bottom of Mariana Trench (microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com)

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March Temperatures in Alaska: 20 Degrees Hotter Than Usual (www.nytimes.com)

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Fucking Color Picker (www.tonymccoy.me)

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'PJ paralysis': Why advocates are pushing to get patients out of pyjamas (www.ctvnews.ca)

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Jumia Is Not an African Startup.( A Digital Colonization Thread) (threadreaderapp.com)

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Webiny – Serverless CMS (GraphQL and React) (github.com)

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Quantum Algorithm Zoo (quantumalgorithmzoo.org)

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Refurbishing Classic Quad Electrostatic Loudspeakers (www.rs-online.com)

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Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take pictures of a black hole (www.theverge.com)

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Haversine Formula (en.wikipedia.org)

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Moving to a provenance-aware memory object model for C: proposal for C2x (hal.inria.fr)

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How many holes does a straw have? An answer from an actual topologist (www.youtube.com)

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Please be more careful when interpreting the Stack Overflow Developer Survey (meta.stackoverflow.com)

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High Speed Trains Are Killing the European Railway Network (2013) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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Japan's working population drops further - and the number of foreigners rise (japantoday.com)

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Cross-border credit reporting is at last becoming a reality (www.economist.com)

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The Mercury logic programming system (github.com)

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Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI (chinai.substack.com)

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Birmingham, Alabama: A city using theatres to reinvent itself (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Use Deep Learning to Automatically Colorize Black and White Photos (demos.algorithmia.com)

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Sex is a biological variable – in the brain too (www.nature.com)

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I was declared deceased three times and it destroyed my credit (www.reddit.com)

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Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy (www.nytimes.com)

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Europe Learned to Fear China (www.politico.eu)

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Sexual assault cases: Students accused are winning lawsuits in court (eu.usatoday.com)

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The Last Artists of Soho (www.nytimes.com)

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Sitting for More Than 13 Hours a Day May Sabotage the Benefits of Exercise (www.nytimes.com)

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WeChat isn’t cool anymore in China so China’s viral king is planning competitor (www.abacusnews.com)

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Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Disney Claims House of Mouse Built with Copyright, Ignores Public Domain (www.techdirt.com)

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In Praise of Public Libraries (www.nybooks.com)

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Ex-Guardian editor: Iranian volleyball picture ban by Facebook (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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China Turned 350M Millennials into Day Traders (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Death by a 1000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong (khn.org)

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Quire - A visual collaborative platform (quire.io)

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Cars dominate cities today. Barcelona has set out to change that (www.vox.com)

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OpenAI Five defeats professional Dota 2 team, twice (venturebeat.com)

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Ammonite: Scala Scripting (ammonite.io)

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OpenAI’s Dota 2 AI steamrolls world champion team with back-to-back victories (www.theverge.com)

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BYU Students Value Their Strict Honor Code. But Not the Harsh Punishments (www.nytimes.com)

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Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language (jsonnet.org)

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Stratolaunch Flies World's Largest Plane for the First Time (www.space.com)

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Bohm Dialogue (2017) (www.are.na)

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Pace of Bering Sea changes startle scientists (apnews.com)

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Wegener at Sea (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Ancient Laptop Is the Only Key to Most Valuable Supercars on the Planet(2016) (jalopnik.com)

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American College of Radiology unveils free AI software development platform (www.healthcareitnews.com)

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The AlphaSmart Neo 2 keyboard: for writing without Twitter (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Stratolaunch just became the world’s largest airplane ever to fly (www.washingtonpost.com)

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SkimFeed – A Tech News Dashboard (skimfeed.com)

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Myspace's music purge is the latest careless cultural loss we'll regret (www.theguardian.com)

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World’s biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever (www.theverge.com)

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MIT says we’re overlooking a near-term solution to diesel trucking emissions (arstechnica.com)

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Understanding when not to std:move in C++ – Red Hat Developer Blog (developers.redhat.com)

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Tiny light-up barcodes identify molecules by their twinkling (phys.org)

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Star Maker (en.wikipedia.org)

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Dotgrid is a distractionless vector tool (hundredrabbits.itch.io)

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Should we break up the big tech companies? (marginalrevolution.com)

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How a mobile game is reopening a hidden chapter in Taiwan’s history (arstechnica.com)

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How the Navy’s Top Commander Botched the Highest-Profile Investigation in Years (www.propublica.org)

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The Internet’s Filthy Roots (www.bloomberg.com)

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High-cat diet: urban coyotes feast on pets, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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They had one hit in one atbat. These are their stories (www.mlb.com)

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