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Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis (www.nytimes.com)

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Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound (www.mercedesbenzofnatick.com)

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I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code (github.com)

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The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android (blogs.dropbox.com)

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Announcing the WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy (webkit.org)

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Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K (www.bloomberg.com)

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Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling (github.com)

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The We Company S-1 (www.sec.gov)

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption (www.schneier.com)

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Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents (www.wsj.com)

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Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus (danielsz.github.io)

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Danish bank launches world’s first negative interest rate mortgage (www.theguardian.com)

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‘A slippery slope’: Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing (www.modernretail.co)

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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic (www.bbc.com)

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America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young (www.economist.com)

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WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn (www.bloomberg.com)

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A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video] (petapixel.com)

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What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco (www.kapwing.com)

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Show HN: StoryTime – Create stories about your code instead of documentation (https://storytime.dev)

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Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing (www.bloomberg.com)

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Google Forcing Nest Cameras Visual Indicator Light to Be On (www.mattcrampton.com)

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Introduction to Svelte (daveceddia.com)

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Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch (item?id=20699923)

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India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access (www.nytimes.com)

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Fred Wilson – Tumblr (avc.com)

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Mapped: The world’s coal power plants (www.carbonbrief.org)

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Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts (techcrunch.com)

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How to Pay Programmers Less (2016) (www.yegor256.com)

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Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs (www.latimes.com)

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The 1619 Project (www.nytimes.com)

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Tumblr the Day After (ma.tt)

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Project Mu – A modular UEFI environment for building modern devices (microsoft.github.io)

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It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains (www.theguardian.com)

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Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms (phys.org)

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Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells (medicalxpress.com)

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Principle of Least Action (1963) (www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

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Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? (item?id=20697493)

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Wavelets (1994) [pdf] (cybertester.com)

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Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Puts Users at Risk (www.heise.de)

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The Population Bust (www.foreignaffairs.com)

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Inside a Poundland computer mouse [video] (www.youtube.com)

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The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR (hackaday.com)

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Advances in NLP to better connect people (ai.facebook.com)

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Crokage: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)

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Dosing time matters (science.sciencemag.org)

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Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving (qz.com)

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Jeffrey Epstein's Death Was on 4Chan Before Officials Announced It (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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OpenBSD -stable Binary Packages (marc.info)

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Launch HN: Lofty AI (YC S19) – Real estate investment with alternative data (item?id=20697449)

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Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update (www.vice.com)

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It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Nightmare of Valve’s self-organizing “utopia” (medium.com)

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Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (www.newyorker.com)

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The world is running out of sand – there’s even a violent black market for it (globalnews.ca)

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From automatic differentiation to message passing (2016) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Causal Analytics (blog.clearbrain.com)

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Show HN: A list of no-code software, by category, with real-world examples (x.workandwhistle.co)

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New Proof Settles Ancient Question of How to Simplify Numbers Like Pi (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Visible Lisp Computer (www.technoblogy.com)

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The Sinister Brutality of Shipping Container Architecture (www.nytimes.com)

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The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Finance [pdf] (www.iaqf.org)

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How close are we to 3D printing the human heart? (humanbioscience.org)

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Swadesh List (en.wikipedia.org)

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Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Socialite Cordelia Scaife May Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out (www.nytimes.com)

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Color Me Polynomial (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book (www.nytimes.com)

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Arctic permafrost is thawing fast (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Windows 10 Urgent Update (www.cnn.com)

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Goodbye, Green Recorder (github.com)

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Medium suspends account that investigates Chinese concentration camps (twitter.com)

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Why I won't work a developer job anymore (Joshua Fluke) (www.youtube.com)

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Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update (www.vice.com)

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USDC payment processing in Coinbase Commerce (blog.coinbase.com)

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How Uber Makes Its Drivers Pay (www.wsj.com)

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The Fourth Horseman of the Next Recession Approaches (www.fuqua.duke.edu)

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Multiplex genome engineering: Cas12a&CRISPR arrays encoded on single transcripts (www.nature.com)

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The Power of Speaking Polari (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Irish Teenager Wins Google Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Oceans (www.ecowatch.com)

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A second whistleblower working at Google comes forward to warn of search bias (www.youtube.com)

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Measuring the ionisation fraction in a jet from a protostar (www.nature.com)

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Museum of Ice Cream Valued at $200M (www.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Generate a graph of any data from your terminal (tailgraph.live)

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Tunnel of Eupalinos (en.wikipedia.org)

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VMware says it’s in talks to acquire Pivotal Software (www.cnbc.com)

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Russian 'Sully' lands plane on corn field after bird strike (www.pprune.org)

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Digital Ocean Experiencing Issues (https://status.digitalocean.com)

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Architecting a Roles and Permissions System Using Rails, GraphQL and React (item?id=20697626)

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

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Does Deep Learning Still Need Backpropagation? (medium.com)

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The Loneliest of Species (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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A Field Guide to the 'Weapons' of Hostile Architecture in NYC (gothamist.com)

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Show HN: Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Arduino (https://awot.net)

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AMD Renoir APUs Could Arrive with Zen 2 Cores and Vega 10 Graphics (www.tomshardware.com)

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Bioinformatics.jl – Helper Functions for Bioinformatics (github.com)

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AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (www.wsj.com)

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Virtual desktops finally come to Chrome OS (www.theverge.com)

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Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless (www.inc.com)

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on What’s Next for Tumblr (www.theverge.com)

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The great electric car race is just beginning (edition.cnn.com)

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The World’s Tallest Waterslide Was a Terrible, Tragic Idea (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Include_bytes () with compile-time zip and runtime lazy unzip (github.com)

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Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of glaciated Ethiopia (science.sciencemag.org)

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Two treatments for Ebola emerge from a clinical trial in Africa (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Price Oracle for Decentralized Finance Apps (item?id=20699576)

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The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant (www.nytimes.com)

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Punk Mathematics (2010) (www.kickstarter.com)

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Microsoft: Cloud gaming is “inevitable” but “years” from mainstream (arstechnica.com)

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Employers Can’t Retrain the U.S. by Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)

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From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (www.martinvigo.com)

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Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study (phys.org)

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How to Catch a Cat with TLA+ (habr.com)

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A Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked–On Purpose (www.wired.com)

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Pingtung plant shelter: the 'Noah's Ark' of our age (focustaiwan.tw)

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Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8 (www.cnbc.com)

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Down the Rabbit Hole (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Facebook did the sneaky listening thing, too (gizmodo.com)

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Epstein Conspiracies Show Silicon Valley Is More Powerful Than You Think (medium.com)

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Turn your Tesla into a CIA-like counter-surveillance tool with this hack (electrek.co)

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Browsers, input events, and frame throttling (nolanlawson.com)

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Data leak exposes unchangeable biometric data of over 1M people (www.technologyreview.com)

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Cloosiv (YC S19) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer (item?id=20700708)

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