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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? (nsaphra.github.io)

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Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech (palladiummag.com)

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Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest (www.bloomberg.com)

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Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires (arstechnica.com)

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Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York (www.bbc.com)

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The Door Problem of Combat Design (gamasutra.com)

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Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference (www.vice.com)

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Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer (www.vice.com)

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Creeping Normality (en.wikipedia.org)

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How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video] (arstechnica.com)

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How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models (www.economist.com)

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Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware (www.ifixit.com)

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IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat (investorplace.com)

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Parallelism in PostgreSQL (www.percona.com)

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Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group (techcrunch.com)

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Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality (www.publicbooks.org)

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P++ FAQ (wiki.php.net)

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Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain (www.cell.com)

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The Rule of 2 (chromium.googlesource.com)

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DEF Con and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity (stackoverflow.blog)

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Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python (github.com)

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Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates (medium.com)

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MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films (www.theverge.com)

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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out (www.nytimes.com)

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Porsche Taycan [video] (fullycharged.show)

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Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade (about.bnef.com)

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Amazon's Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing (www.theatlantic.com)

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Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013) (nautil.us)

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100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Telephone Lines (twistedsifter.com)

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Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go (github.com)

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Commodore 900 (www.floodgap.com)

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I am a horse in the land of booleans (iloveponies.github.io)

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The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion (arc.aiaa.org)

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Show HN: Historical order book reconstruction API for crypto markets (https://tardis.dev)

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Japanese Addressing System (en.wikipedia.org)

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Russia Says Five Died in Blast Where Radiation Spike Reported (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Map That Made Los Angeles Make Sense (www.citylab.com)

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New Research Shows Elephants and Other Animals Can Suffer from PTSD (www.cbc.ca)

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Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST (academic.oup.com)

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The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery (undark.org)

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Finally, China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Prisoners Endure a Nightmare 'Gulag' in Lower Manhattan, Hidden in Plain Sight (gothamist.com)

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Thousands of tardigrades crash-land on the moon. Did they survive? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got (www.wsj.com)

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Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires (arstechnica.com)

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A* (en.wikipedia.org)

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Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang (www.sciencedaily.com)

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China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket (www.globaltimes.cn)

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A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Quark-IDE and a JavaScript runtime to build cross-platform desktop apps (https://quarkjs.io)

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Studies in Power: An Interview with Robert Caro (www.nybooks.com)

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The Menace of Eco-Fascism (www.nybooks.com)

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The Life and Death of an American Indie Press (lithub.com)

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The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion (towardsdatascience.com)

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Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety (www.politico.com)

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Roman Sacrifice, Inside and Out (2016) (www.cambridge.org)

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Soon only the rich will be able to escape the heat. In Iraq, it’s already so (www.independent.co.uk)

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Black holes spin almost at the speed of light (www.forbes.com)

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Apple's iPhone FaceID Hacked in Less Than 120 Seconds (www.forbes.com)

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Why our team cancelled our move to microservices (medium.com)

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After 12 years in ‘vegetative state’: reveals ‘I was aware of everything’ (www.lifesitenews.com)

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Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2019 (www.natureindex.com)

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A Book in My Parole Office Taught Me How to Rob Banks Better (slate.com)

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1999: The Last Great Year in Movies (www.esquire.com)

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Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy urban planners (2018) (www.theguardian.com)

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Creator of Zenject library sued for forking project after leaving company (github.com)

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A Natural History of the Sign (www.herodios.com)

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Jeffrey Epstein is dead from alleged suicide (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Ask HN: Useful civil disobedience measures a developer can partake in? (item?id=20666203)

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We Analyzed the 527,350 Facebook Ads Placed by the US Presidential Candidates (adsp.ai)

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A16Z: Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B (www.youtube.com)

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Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap? (www.vox.com)

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Jeffrey Epstein takes own life instead of working with Justice system (www.nbcnews.com)

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It's OK to pull your data back from the cloud (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Can Uber ever be profitable? Yes. Here's how (www.businessinsider.com)

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Get your work recognized: write a brag document (jvns.ca)

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The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces – Featured Stories – Medium (medium.com)

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YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech... ' (www.theguardian.com)

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Microcracks undermined San Francisco's new bus terminal (www.wired.com)

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Pegasi B – Bellerophon (en.wikipedia.org)

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