hackerNews

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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender (www.blender.org)

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Cloudflare S-1 (www.sec.gov)

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Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

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A Walk in Hong Kong (idlewords.com)

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Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment (stripe.com)

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The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist (www.npr.org)

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CutiePi – all-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet (cutiepi.io)

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I feel like im talking to the borg (twitter.com)

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I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is (towardsdatascience.com)

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AI startup that raised $30m claims to automate app making just uses humans (www.theverge.com)

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Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices (digiday.com)

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Rust 1.37.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

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Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools (cyber.dabamos.de)

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Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com)

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WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera (www.theverge.com)

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The Impact of Meditating Every Day (pascalprecht.github.io)

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New React DevTools (reactjs.org)

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Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack: Breaking Bluetooth Security (knobattack.com)

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Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support (www.crn.com.au)

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Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’ (www.cnbc.com)

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The bug I wish I hadn't caught (roganmurley.com)

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The Order of the JSON (blog.almaer.com)

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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 (www.epi.org)

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Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews? (www.researchgate.net)

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Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their Own Customers (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Hedonometer (hedonometer.org)

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Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval (www.choiceofgames.com)

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Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017) (andreas-zeller.blogspot.com)

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Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses (www.nytimes.com)

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Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’ (venturebeat.com)

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Dependent Haskell Is the Future (serokell.io)

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Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon (www.nature.com)

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An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance on the Trail (www.npr.org)

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Understanding modern UEFI-based platform boot (depletionmode.com)

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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances (aws.amazon.com)

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Capital One Cyber Staff Raised Concerns Before Hack (www.wsj.com)

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I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have (www.nytimes.com)

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The electric car as a talisman of false hope (www.jussipasanen.com)

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Steven Sinofsky Reflects on Steve Jobs' “Bicycle for the Mind” (medium.learningbyshipping.com)

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Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story (instagram-engineering.com)

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Camera vs. Lidar (scale.com)

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Pokemonsay: Pokemon Version of Cowsay (github.com)

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Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a project based book/course on Go for writing web API's? (item?id=20704993)

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Toptal sues co-founder Breanden Beneschott for fraud (www.pacermonitor.com)

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I Started a $60K/Month Online Business from Malaysia (www.starterstory.com)

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Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore” (secalerts.co)

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Show HN: Homer – A Text-Analyzer in Python (github.com)

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Facebook Transcription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners (www.bloomberg.com)

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YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem (onezero.medium.com)

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Carbon drive shaft replaces chain on new bicycle (www.bikeradar.com)

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Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to (item?id=20707194)

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The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing (www.yaleclimateconnections.org)

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Kdevops: A devops framework for Linux kernel development (people.kernel.org)

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Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M (www.apple.com)

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Q-Learning (en.wikipedia.org)

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House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner (thehill.com)

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What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them (www.sciencealert.com)

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A scientist must go where the evidence leads (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice (www.nytimes.com)

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At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors (www.theinformation.com)

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Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV (www.wired.com)

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How to Break into a Crowded Market and Win (tanyaprive.com)

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In its struggle to subdue Kashmir, India is stripping it of liberties (www.economist.com)

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Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019 (boingboing.net)

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Chrome to Deprecate FTP Support (www.chromestatus.com)

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Woman survives fall from plane after parachute fails (www.cbc.ca)

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Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Funko Pop became a $686M business (www.vox.com)

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Ask HN: What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols? (item?id=20704840)

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Camera vs. Lidar (scale.com)

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Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts (www.theatlantic.com)

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Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago (www.scientificamerican.com)

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There have been three times more wildfires in the EU so far this year (www.euronews.com)

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Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (02007) (longnow.org)

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700k Choice Hotels records leaked in data breach, ransom demanded (www.zdnet.com)

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The Incremental Machine (acko.net)

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Expanding Square’s Platform Beyond Payments, New Orders API (developer.squareup.com)

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Kitty Hawk’s Flyer personal VTOL has now flown over 25,000 times (techcrunch.com)

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Butt Plug Hacking: Real Penetration Testing - DEFCON 27 (youtube.com)

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Who Will Pay for the Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas? (e360.yale.edu)

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Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change? (www.nytimes.com)

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Apple sued for not disclosing that 'iCloud storage' relies on third-party cloud (www.zdnet.com)

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Modern American Capitalism Was Invented on Cotton Plantations (www.nytimes.com)

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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (7th Gen) (jcs.org)

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The Lonely Burden of Today’s Teenage Girls (www.wsj.com)

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How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars? (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Reddit, with wigs and ink (aeon.co)

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Sketches Revealed Underneath Leonardo's 'Virgin of the Rocks' (www.cnn.com)

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Land of the Free: A brief history of early American nudists (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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How do calculators do trigonometry? (chalkdustmagazine.com)

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President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland (www.wsj.com)

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Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access (blog.developer.atlassian.com)

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Internet Videoconferencing with CU-SeeMe: History, Culture, and Usage (1995) (www.sattlers.org)

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Ask HN: Splunk Alternatives? (item?id=20707324)

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People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Work (www.theatlantic.com)

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Cashify – a lightweight currency conversion library and Money.js alternative (github.com)

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Ups Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months and No One Knew (gizmodo.com)

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Creatures of the Deep Karst (www.americanscientist.org)

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Turning the Nintendo Switch into Android’s Best Gaming Hardware (arstechnica.com)

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Here's the Memo About the Burden of Being Black at Google (www.vice.com)

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Ask HN: Where can I learn about Nikola Tesla? (item?id=20708040)

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PCMag: The VPN Industry Is on the Cusp of a Major Breakthrough (www.pcmag.com)

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In China, Apple Isn’t the Privacy Advocate It Claims to Be (www.top10vpn.com)

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It's time to forcibly reform big tech (www.wired.co.uk)

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Ups has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks (www.theverge.com)

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It Is Criminal That We Aren’t Borrowing Trillions to Fix the Country Right Now (slate.com)

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Who Killed Tumblr? We All Did (www.nytimes.com)

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Giffard Dirigible (en.wikipedia.org)

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Automating capture of airplane pics with Raspberry Pis, ADS-B and IoT software (medium.com)

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Overstock CEO Takes Aim at ‘Deep State’ After Romance with Russian Agent (www.nytimes.com)

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It Sure Feels Like the Headphone Jack Is Dead (nymag.com)

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A Proper Symbol of Office: US House of Representatives (history.house.gov)

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Advanced Jupyter Notebook Tricks (2015) (blog.dominodatalab.com)

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Facebook Isn’t Ready for 2020 (www.washingtonpost.com)

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“This is “how I tricked my co-workers” into using Racket.” (developer.squareup.com)

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Tether RPi to iPad Pro via Ethernet over USB-C (marcelwiget.blog)

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Lifehacks that change the way you write Markdown (dev.to)

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Phage Hunters (www.pittmag.pitt.edu)

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Serverless Functions with WebAssembly Modules (dev.to)

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California is burning 26 times less than it did in 2018. Why? (www.msn.com)

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Show HN: Launching GoatCounter; or: let's try and make a living from Open Source (arp242.net)

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Donald Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland from Denmark (www.theguardian.com)

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What3words: The app that can save your life (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Minimum Times Tend to Mislead When Benchmarking (tratt.net)

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Accused Capital One hacker had stolen data from 30 other companies (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: sqltop – Find the most resource consuming SQL Server queries (github.com)

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Node v12.8.1 (Current) (nodejs.org)

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Moscow Passenger Plane Makes 'Miraculous' Crash-Landing in Cornfield (www.themoscowtimes.com)

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The final test to become a Shaolin Master [video] (www.youtube.com)

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California Supreme Court Blocks Sweeping Search of Minors’ Electronic Devices (www.eff.org)

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Launch HN: Remote company culture book for the Slack generation (www.ahoyteam.com)

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Japanese researchers build robotic tail (www.theguardian.com)

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Walmart says it sells 20% of ammunition in US, defends gun sales after shootings (abcnews.go.com)

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Google employees ‘refuse to be complicit’ in border agency cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

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JITX is hiring an Infrastructure engineer to automate circuit board design (www.jitx.com)

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