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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (sparktoro.com)

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Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours (www.universetoday.com)

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Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)

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Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day (nbremer.github.io)

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Danny Cohen Has Died (item?id=20689675)

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Psytrance Guide (psytranceguide.com)

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Down the Rabbit-Hole (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt (engineering.squarespace.com)

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Minify Your SVGs (victorzhou.com)

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We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (www.filfre.net)

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FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963) (www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

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The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More (https://yack.io)

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My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory (louwrentius.com)

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Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier (www.chemistryworld.com)

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Michael Cicconetti (en.wikipedia.org)

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Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech (www.wired.com)

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HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory (github.com)

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China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters (www.nytimes.com)

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Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything (therevelator.org)

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Somehow I Became Respectable (www.theparisreview.org)

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U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act (www.nytimes.com)

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The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2012) (www.wired.com)

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In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf] (faculty.georgetown.edu)

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Facebook Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio (www.bloomberg.com)

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What Germans Are Reading (www.the-american-interest.com)

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Supercomputers will start building a 3D map of the world (www.c4isrnet.com)

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Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms (www.theguardian.com)

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Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++ (root.cern.ch)

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Eleven 0day bugs affect OS running on over 2B IoT devices (armis.com)

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A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize (www.npr.org)

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Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat (www.bloomberg.com)

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Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike (www.lastweekinaws.com)

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Mitre Systems Engineering Guide [pdf] (www.mitre.org)

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If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017) (www.reifyworks.com)

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Show HN: I made online community for unusual people (holynetr.com)

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Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity? (www.thinkautomation.com)

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How annoying is too annoying? (input-delay.glitch.me)

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Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse? (edition.cnn.com)

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Building a vacuum tube computer (RISC-V based) (www.ludd.ltu.se)

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Embodied energy of digital technology (www.lowtechmagazine.com)

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Indigenous Women Are Publishing the First Maya Works in over 400 Years (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Pakistan to ban single-use plastic bags (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Outlaw Country (magazine.atavist.com)

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Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia (github.com)

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NEC shows ‘flying car’ hovering steadily for minute (www.apnews.com)

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Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Using AR to help build a complex brick wall (www.archdaily.com)

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Interest Rates: Naturally Negative? (blog.pimco.com)

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Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit (item?id=20690144)

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Making Cloud.typography Fast(er) (csswizardry.com)

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Extreme climate change has arrived in America (www.washingtonpost.com)

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SEC Freezes $8M in Assets in Alleged Fraudulent Token Offering Scheme (www.sec.gov)

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A New Clue to How Life Originated (www.theatlantic.com)

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Georgia Southern QB: roadside drug test wrongly showed bird droppings as cocaine (www.fox5atlanta.com)

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How to Provide Great Feedback When You're Not in Charge (2016) (fs.blog)

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Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds [pdf] (ipo.lbl.gov)

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Launch HN: Boost Biomes (YC S19) – Microbes for better crop yields, shelf life (item?id=20687797)

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Domino’s launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash (techcrunch.com)

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Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator (https://divjoy.com)

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The Anthropocene Is a Joke (www.theatlantic.com)

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Lockheed Martin Taps Red Hat to Accelerate F-22 Raptor Upgrades (www.redhat.com)

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Fire One, Fire Ten: Implications of the Torpedo Scandal of World War II (2018) (thestrategybridge.org)

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Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E (www.filfre.net)

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Show HN: Parapet – A purely functional library to build distributed systems (http://parapet.io)

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Do older people have a different smell? (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word (https://docs.arcaneoffice.com)

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Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Have Disneyland fans finally reached their limit? (www.mercurynews.com)

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Jailed Saudi feminist refuses to deny torture to secure release (www.theguardian.com)

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Survivors of rare wolf attack recount how animal tried to drag man from tent (www.cbc.ca)

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Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces into Hong Kong, or Wait Out Protesters (www.bloomberg.com)

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A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists (www.nytimes.com)

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How America Lost Faith in Expertise and Why That's a Giant Problem (www.foreignaffairs.com)

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Fish Cannon (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)

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Coke Putting Dasani Water in Cans Amid Backlash Against Plastic (www.bloomberg.com)

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How much energy does it take to produce 1 kilogram of the following materials? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)

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Millions of unhashed fingerprints discovered on unsecured Elasticsearch DB (techerati.com)

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With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice for Your PC Office Suite (www.zdnet.com)

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The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With (medium.com)

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Douglas-Quaid – Open-Source Image Matching Library (arxiv.org)

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Younger Americans less trusting of other people, institutions (www.pewresearch.org)

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Real Hackers Tell Us Why They Love the Movie 'Hackers' (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: I give you the most suitable outfit to wear depending on weather (www.fashion-frog.app)

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FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection (www.zdnet.com)

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As Trade War Escalates, Tech Companies Flee Mainland China (fortune.com)

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Language Design Is Not Just Solving Puzzles (2006) (www.artima.com)

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Media Observatory – Quantifying Media Bias (http://mediaobservatory.com)

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Predictably Random (remysharp.com)

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Reading Gandhi Reading (lareviewofbooks.org)

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An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared (www.citylab.com)

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The Nut CPU (HP Calculator CPU) [pdf] (hp41.deringenieur.net)

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Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout? (item?id=20684671)

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Magic Transit: Network Functions at Cloudflare Scale (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Apple locked me out of its walled garden. It was a nightmare (qz.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC (item?id=20690672)

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Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants (www.c82.net)

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Bedbugs are giving Airbnb users headaches and itchy bites (www.cnet.com)

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As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive (www.nytimes.com)

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Oakland on course to create more new housing units than SF in 2019 (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Jeff Bezos is letting his charities do something radical – whatever they want (www.vox.com)

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Startup says they've made an electric motor with 3x more torque (www.cnet.com)

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The art of sharpening pencils (2007) (matthewjamestaylor.com)

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Amazon Facial Recognition Misidentified 1 in 5 California Lawmakers as Criminals (www.vice.com)

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Fakemyinbox – Free Temp Mail Generator (https://www.fakemyinbox.com)

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Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals from Deep Space (www.sciencealert.com)

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Ask HN: Show your own blog/vlog (item?id=20686154)

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Kevinism (en.wikipedia.org)

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Lovecraft on the Tabletop (www.filfre.net)

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Habits of Highly Effective Programmers – Inspired by an Ex-Google TechLead (dev.to)

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Amiga C Tutorial (www.pjhutchison.org)

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Fuck me: iOS’ Notes app censors handwritten swears (thenextweb.com)

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Google's jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals (www.reuters.com)

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Underground Pumped Hydroelectric Storage: A Feasibility Study (blog.syllablehq.com)

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Ask HN: Is there any guarantee that my phone's camera isn't spying on me? (item?id=20689276)

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The Modern Tech Stack (imgs.xkcd.com)

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It's time to end “trending” on Twitter (www.theverge.com)

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How I Went from a Depressed College Dropout to a Software Engineer (medium.com)

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Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study (annals.org)

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The Life of a Person Who Wakes Up Early (www.theatlantic.com)

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Megatron-LM: Nvidia's 8.3B Parameter GPT-2 Transformer (blog.exxactcorp.com)

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We Need to Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical (community.hackernoon.com)

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Turing “Uncomputability” – Numbers we can never know the value of (medium.com)

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Data Breach Has Exposed Millions of Fingerprint and Facial Recognition Records (www.forbes.com)

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New Snip Smartphone App Converts Math Screenshots into LaTeX (medium.com)

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Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do (www.forbes.com)

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Scale AI is hiring engineers to accelerate the development of AI (scale.com)

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