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Ebola Is Now Curable. Here’s How the New Treatments Work (www.wired.com)

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NULL license plate not such a bright idea (knrs.iheart.com)

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Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic (www.wsj.com)

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Why Has Examine.com Disappeared from Google Search Results? (examine.com)

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The Horror of Microsoft Teams (medium.com)

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GitHub stars won’t pay your rent (medium.com)

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Anxiety Looks Different in Men (wsj.com)

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One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm (www.routefifty.com)

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Chinese military entering Shenzen just across the boarder with HongKong (twitter.com)

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I quit my job today to make video games full time [image gallery] (imgur.com)

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GNU Radio 3.8 (www.gnuradio.org)

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A Bloomberg reporter’s account of trying to get back his name and credit rating (www.bloomberg.com)

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Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations (www.bloomberg.com)

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Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below (www.independent.co.uk)

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The banana is one step closer to disappearing (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Ask HN: What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read? (item?id=20674745)

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Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks (www.bloomberg.com)

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Why we're saying no to Google (blog.ecosia.org)

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Home 3D metal printing: first results (incoherency.co.uk)

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Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much? (www.strongtowns.org)

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The Principia Discordia (1963) (principiadiscordia.com)

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Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child (parenting.nytimes.com)

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Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera (research.checkpoint.com)

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Extended Validation Certificates Are ( Really) Dead (www.troyhunt.com)

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Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars? (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (www.huffingtonpost.com)

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Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits (dmarby.se)

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Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party (www.nytimes.com)

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Colombia fines Uber more than $629,000 for obstructing regulatory visit (www.reuters.com)

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Solar now cheaper than grid electricity across China (www.carbonbrief.org)

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The land that no country wants (2016) (www.theguardian.com)

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GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles (www.wsj.com)

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OpenCensus Web: Unlocking Full End-to-End Observability for Your Entire Stack (opensource.googleblog.com)

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Arrived – a new model of home ownership (arrivedhomes.com)

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MesaPy: A Memory-Safe Python Implementation Based on PyPy(2018) (github.com)

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Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue (www.nytimes.com)

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How Far Out Is AWS Fargate? (read.iopipe.com)

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Game of Trees: A Version Control System for OpenBSD (gameoftrees.org)

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How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames (www.thedrive.com)

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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1960) (gizmodo.com)

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Dollar vans, NYC’s other transit system (queenseagle.com)

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Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018 (www.climate.gov)

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Ear Speakers – Research, Design, and Evolution (www.valvesoftware.com)

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Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy (plato.stanford.edu)

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On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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Compact TLS 1.3 (tools.ietf.org)

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“Angels” that aren’t actually angels, and the problems that poses (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Thread about José Bové vs. McDonald's (twitter.com)

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Launch HN: Embrace (YC S19) – Spot and fix bugs in mobile apps (item?id=20677403)

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YouTube Should Stop Recommending Video (arstechnica.com)

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SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident (www.bloomberg.com)

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Show HN: MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript (www.masswerk.at)

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If You Lose Your iPhone, You Can’t Pay Your Apple Card Bill on the Web (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Show HN: Wagyu – Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets (github.com)

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Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon (www.gnu.org)

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Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad (item?id=20675965)

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Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript (github.com)

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Show HN: Procrastinating? Take a 5min break without leaving your computer (https://break45.com)

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Visualizing Transformer Language Models: Illustrated GPT-2 (jalammar.github.io)

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Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? (2018) (www.wbgo.org)

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I am dyslexic (matthewsag.com)

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Packrat Parsing (2002) (pdos.csail.mit.edu)

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Launch HN: Lazy Lantern (YC S19) – Detect Meaningful Patterns in Your Analytics (item?id=20679964)

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How to chain multiple functions in JavaScript properly with async/await (nikodunk.com)

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Catching bugs early with static analysis (madewithlove.be)

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Say No to the “Cashless Future” – and to Cashless Stores (www.aclu.org)

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Mac OS Adds Early Support for VirtIO, QEMU (passthroughpo.st)

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The Rule of Seven: how to overload the brain of a programmer for no good reason (www.javiercasas.com)

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Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review (www.cbc.ca)

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Loot boxes a matter of “life or death,” says researcher (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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Why Don’t People Talk About Breaking Up Microsoft? (truthonthemarket.com)

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Try Micromastery (elemental.medium.com)

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Largest Contentful Paint (web.dev)

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Quantum microphone counts particles of sound (news.stanford.edu)

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Harmony OS and Compatibility (commonsware.com)

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Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now (item?id=20674267)

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The Phony Patriots of Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)

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A gentle introduction to Linux Kernel fuzzing (new.blog.cloudflare.com)

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Clean Go Code (github.com)

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Nuclear Reactor for Mars Outpost Could Be Ready to Fly by 2022 (www.space.com)

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Characterizing the Performance Impact of AMP (blog.apnic.net)

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Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994) (www.nytimes.com)

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Where did the melody go? (2017) (www.keyboardmag.com)

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Russia tells Google not to advertise 'illegal' events after election protests (www.reuters.com)

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Two Narratives of Creation (allenleein.github.io)

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Laws of Locality: Where in your UI you should put certain controls (learnui.design)

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Intent to Implement: CSS Modules V1 (groups.google.com)

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I don’t hire Junior data-scientists (medium.com)

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A Fullstack Todo List Built Using Go/Gin/Postgres/React Stack (github.com)

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Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems? (item?id=20680570)

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Ask HN: How much time should I spend reviewing code? (item?id=20680881)

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While Nestle extracts millions of liters, residents lack drinking water (www.theguardian.com)

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Top Seven Myths of Robust Systems (www.verica.io)

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Show HN: Understand the Internet by Building It in a VM (MOOC) (edx.org)

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Managing Developers: Understanding Work Styles and Individual Needs (www.7pace.com)

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Why Are We All Paying a Tax to Credit Card Companies? (theweek.com)

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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality (www.technologyreview.com)

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Fido2 can now be used for Google on Android Chrome (security.googleblog.com)

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How YouTube Radicalized Brazil (www.nytimes.com)

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Ad Creep (en.wikipedia.org)

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Juggling: Theory and Practice [pdf] (www.solipsys.co.uk)

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Terse Linux HowTo (2006) (taviso.decsystem.org)

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Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking? (item?id=20677453)

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US Senator says wireless carriers are helping Trump build 'surveillance state' (www.tomsguide.com)

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Coloring Hyper-Realistic Art with AI (www.youtube.com)

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Why Conspiracy Theorists Will Never Believe the ‘Official’ Epstein Story (www.theatlantic.com)

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Meet the Macaronis (www.historytoday.com)

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Mountains, Transcending (longreads.com)

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Canon DSLR Camera Infected with Ransomware over the Air (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Pandora's Flask: Monitoring a Python Web App with Prometheus (www.metricfire.com)

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OpenAudible – desktop application for downloading&managing Audible audiobooks (github.com)

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Tech giants reportedly ignoring safety pleas to add rail crossings to maps (www.theverge.com)

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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look (aeon.co)

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Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018 (www.ncei.noaa.gov)

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The entire Shrek movie in one GIF (www.reddit.com)

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Deliveroo Stops Serving Germany (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: How to help Hong Kong (item?id=20680702)

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Nissan Motor's Lawsuit Against Us (www.nissan.com)

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IndieWeb Link Sharing (mxb.dev)

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Protests Pop Up Across Russia (www.bloomberg.com)

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Building an infinitely scalable cloud host for less than $5/mo (dev.to)

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Complexity Classes of Problems (thomasvilhena.com)

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Designer Behind Instagram Logo Made an Exact Working Replica of Apollo 11 Camera (www.wired.com)

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Google Hackers Found 10 Ways to Hack an iPhone Without Touching It (www.vice.com)

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Automation in One Chart (medium.com)

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Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization (www.ted.com)

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PCSX2: PS2 Emulator AMA (np.reddit.com)

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What Is a Pure Function? (medium.com)

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China Media: HK protesters ‘asking for self-destruction’ as military assembles (www.cnbc.com)

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Texas Startup Claims Biggest Advance in Electric Motor Designs in over 100 Years (jalopnik.com)

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A 19th-Century Catfishing Scheme (daily.jstor.org)

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Video App Kuaishou Is Turning Chinese Country Folk into Hollywood Directors (medium.com)

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NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS reader for macOS launches in beta (9to5mac.com)

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$4M per hour at Walmart (www.bloomberg.com)

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NASA Mission Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return (www.asteroidmission.org)

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Segment is hiring a fullstack engineer to build our developer platform (item?id=20681445)

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Human Interest (YC S15) raises $15M Series B and is hiring product, data, and more (boards.greenhouse.io)

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