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We Have Ruined Childhood (www.nytimes.com)

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YAML: Probably not so great after all (arp242.net)

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Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library (github.com)

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OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation (github.com)

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The opaque way that Google will terminate your developer account (medium.com)

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Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects (kottke.org)

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Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (nurpax.github.io)

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The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no (2010) (pindancing.blogspot.com)

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Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn (fair.org)

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Die With Me – The chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery (apps.apple.com)

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Why doesn't mathematics collapse, when humans quite often make mistaken proofs? (mathoverflow.net)

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She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals (www.nytimes.com)

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Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters (www.engadget.com)

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Giving Up On Julia [2016] (www.zverovich.net)

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The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies (medium.com)

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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder (www.wsj.com)

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Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf] (library.sciencemadness.org)

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Interslavic Language (steen.free.fr)

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21st Century Datacenter Locations Are Driven by 19th Century Politics (www.linkedin.com)

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Photos taken by the EPA reveal America before pollution was regulated (www.insider.com)

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Portugal Turns to Goats for Low-Cost Wild Firefighting (www.nytimes.com)

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How Slack Harms Projects (www.silasreinagel.com)

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Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (www.makeuseof.com)

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Does “www.” Mean Better Transport Layer Security? (eprint.iacr.org)

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Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (link.springer.com)

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SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid volatile markets (mazech.com)

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California’s Biggest Cities Confront a ‘Defecation Crisis’ (www.wsj.com)

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The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (www.bbc.com)

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The Eleven Laws of Showrunning [pdf] (okbjgm.weebly.com)

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Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail to Dent Tesla’s Electric-Car Dominance (www.bloomberg.com)

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Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 (Rich Hickey, 2018) (github.com)

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Thoughts on Racket2 (beautifulracket.com)

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Umberto Eco: Texts, sign systems and the risks of over-interpretation (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Marium, the Dugong Who Charmed Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic (www.npr.org)

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Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy (www.spectator.co.uk)

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If we burn, you burn with us (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Beleaguered Moderators Who Keep Hacker News Focus on Intellectual Curiosity (thenewstack.io)

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Review: Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (www.claremont.org)

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Getting Started with Lisp in 2019 (smalldata.tech)

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Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea (www.theguardian.com)

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Exploring Zork, Part 1 (www.filfre.net)

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Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer (decrypt.co)

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Censorship in China Allows Govt Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf] (dash.harvard.edu)

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Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (www.space.com)

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Ask HN: Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming? (item?id=20733200)

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switch(true) {} (twitter.com)

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Using the Golden Research Engine to Query the Y Combinator S19 Batch (golden.com)

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How Fentanyl Ingredients From China End Up in the U.S. (www.theatlantic.com)

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What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble (medium.com)

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Judge claims mobile phone is not a computer (www.theguardian.com)

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Super Easy Python CLI with Click (www.codingwithricky.com)

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Hidden messages in Amiga games (2017) (codetapper.com)

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Zoncolan: How Facebook uses static analysis to detect, prevent security issues (engineering.fb.com)

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Chess2vec: Learning Vector Representations for Chess (2018) [pdf] (www.berkkapicioglu.com)

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Exploring the Vastness of a Website (elliott.computer)

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Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure (techxplore.com)

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A static wiki-like site via forms, email, and local scripts (www.solipsys.co.uk)

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Robust Learning from Untrusted Sources (blog.acolyer.org)

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UK to end freedom of movement for EU citizens on day one of Brexit (www.independent.co.uk)

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Should You Get a Scary UV Photo of Your Skin Damage? (www.nytimes.com)

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Code is law: China now has AI-powered robot judges (radiichina.com)

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Our Graham Greene in Havana (www.historytoday.com)

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Segway-Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations (www.reuters.com)

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The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem (2018) (www.nature.com)

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Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Ask HN: What game(s) are you working on? (item?id=20735243)

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Alaska records its warmest month ever; future records likely (www.ktuu.com)

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Three Letters from Switzerland (www.theparisreview.org)

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The Power of Subscripts in Swift (www.swiftbysundell.com)

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Thomas Edison DC Electrical Cables (inspectapedia.com)

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Kostroma Moose Farm (en.wikipedia.org)

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How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s (2018) (www.vice.com)

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Subscription Fatigue: Nearly Half of US Consumers Frustrated by Streaming (variety.com)

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Great Artificial Daylight via Broken TVs (hackaday.com)

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Travel Hacking 101: Travel the World for Next to Nothing (viatravelers.com)

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Science: Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out (www.newscientist.com)

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China’s fan-girl culture is mobilizing against the Hong Kong protests (qz.com)

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Tesla launches solar rental service – solar panel system for $50 per month (electrek.co)

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Terrorists Turn to Bitcoin for Funding, and They’re Learning Fast (www.nytimes.com)

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The Internet Must Change – Start with the Data (shift.newco.co)

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Turning the Tide on Climate Change with Green Sand Beaches [pdf] (projectvesta.org)

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He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some adults don't move on (www.thehour.com)

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On the Hunt for National Treasures with America’s Archive Detective (www.atlasobscura.com)

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““The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson“ (www.vox.com)

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Windows or Chromebook? A Best Buy salesman told me it isn't even close (www.zdnet.com)

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Firefox users now invisible to webmasters that use Google Analytics (www.searchenginejournal.com)

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I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results (www.livescience.com)

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Apple Is Copying Mozilla’s Anti-Tracking Policy (www.thurrott.com)

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Large-Scale-Exploit of GitHub Repository Metadata and Preventive Measures (arxiv.org)

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Why Alibaba Will Be Bigger Than Amazon (medium.com)

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New museum tells gripping story of liberation of Paris 75 years on (www.theguardian.com)

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New Cycling Speed Record – 174 mph/280 km/h (www.theguardian.com)

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Thousands of Unsold New Cars Are Being Abandoned and Left to Die in Lots (www.epicdash.com)

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The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront (www.washingtonpost.com)

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De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines: The Illustrated Ages of the World (2008) (bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)

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A Horror Story for Programmers (2017) (qz.com)

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Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Beautiful Data Visualisations (www.helenanderson.co.nz)

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Ten Principles for Growth as a Software Engineer (dev.to)

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Lime and soda? No thanks, say non-drinkers (www.bbc.com)

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A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer [pdf] (www.roboticsproceedings.org)

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Moon Fever (www.nybooks.com)

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Wearable sensors detect what's in your sweat (www.sciencedaily.com)

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“My Reveal” by Satoshi Nakamoto (www.ivymclemore.com)

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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work (www.sciencealert.com)

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Ma-gym: multi agent environments based on open ai gym (github.com)

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Ask HN: Where do you find unknown knowledge? (item?id=20733592)

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Amazon contributed $ to the head of Congressional antitrust probe before hearing (www.cnbc.com)

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How to Create JDBC Driver over Rest APIs (medium.com)

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Trump says Tim Cook made ‘good case’ that trade war helps Samsung over Apple (www.theverge.com)

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