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Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains (www.leebutterman.com)

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42 is found to be the sum of three cubes (twitter.com)

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Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager from Microsoft (github.com)

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M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender (www.newyorker.com)

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Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA (www.housebeautiful.com)

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A Message about iOS Security (www.apple.com)

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I am stupefied every day by the awfulness of the AWS web console (old.reddit.com)

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India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon (www.wsj.com)

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Favorite Interview Questions (firstround.com)

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You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face (onezero.medium.com)

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Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week (www.zdnet.com)

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Slow Mornings May Be the Secret to Tech-Life Balance (elemental.medium.com)

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Sorry, we can't join your Slack (www.reifyworks.com)

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Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (localghost.dev)

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Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer (stellarium.org)

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There are no adults in the room (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)

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I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (item?id=20896452)

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Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw (nymag.com)

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Toy Stories: Children around the world with their most prized possessions (www.gabrielegalimberti.com)

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What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? (www.gatesnotes.com)

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How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets (www.theguardian.com)

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India to Attempt Moon Landing at the Lunar South Pole Today (www.space.com)

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Door blows off Boeing 777X during stress test (komonews.com)

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Mathematician Wins $3M Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem' (www.livescience.com)

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Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’ (www.sciencenews.org)

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Facebook Faces Antitrust Investigation by State Attorneys General (www.nytimes.com)

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The True Size Of (thetruesize.com)

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The NYC Subway replaced printed maps with low-resolution digital maps (twitter.com)

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New micro-robots can break apart and remove biofilm or plaque from a tooth (humanbioscience.org)

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Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety (phys.org)

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CVE-2019-15846: Exim – remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges (lists.exim.org)

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Parallelism in Crystal Programming Language (crystal-lang.org)

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How China Is Cashing in on Group Chats (a16z.com)

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'Co-living': the end of urban loneliness – or cynical corporate dormitories? (www.theguardian.com)

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Richard Stallman at Microsoft (no, we do not dream) (www.zdnet.fr)

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What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default (blog.mozilla.org)

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An Apple Developer for 10 Years (qnoid.com)

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Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair – and Now, Shark Skin (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Feds Demand Apple and Google Hand over Names of 10k Users of a Gun Scope App (www.forbes.com)

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Apple Hints China Behind ‘Billion Device iPhone Hack’ That Google Reported (www.forbes.com)

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Origin Sells Out (www.filfre.net)

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Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do (www.economist.com)

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Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference? (corpgov.law.harvard.edu)

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The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox (www.wired.com)

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The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015) (www.wired.com)

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Earth-moon cable ("space elevator") achievable with current technology (arxiv.org)

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FermiNet: State of the art approx of molecular orbitals (twitter.com)

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Run a private CA and issue certificates to cloud VMs with step-ca v0.11 (smallstep.com)

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Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)

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A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics (www.sciencehistory.org)

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Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access? (item?id=20902268)

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Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G (www.anandtech.com)

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GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta) (lists.gnu.org)

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Houses are assets, not goods (bankunderground.co.uk)

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'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters (eu.usatoday.com)

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Facebook to face fresh anti-trust investigation (www.bbc.com)

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Replay in biological and artificial neural networks (deepmind.com)

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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell (item?id=20899863)

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A Hologram Shows How Space Could Pop into Existence (nautil.us)

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Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95 (www.nytimes.com)

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Multi language programming playground for developers. Extremely fast. (code.labstack.com)

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Show HN: GitDuck – Learn from other developers by watching how they work (https://gitduck.com)

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The Unbuilt Streets of California's Ghost Metropolis (www.wired.com)

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Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud Is Not Always Safe (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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WeWork’s List of Potential Conflicts Adds to Questions Ahead of IPO (www.wsj.com)

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The Perfection of the Paper Clip (2012) (slate.com)

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Public Suffix List Problems (github.com)

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APIs are the next big SaaS wave (techcrunch.com)

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Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back from Microsoft (twitter.com)

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Three Tribes of Programming (2017) (josephg.com)

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How to put an HTML page on the internet (jvns.ca)

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Who Cares About Literary Prizes? (www.publicbooks.org)

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Why climate change is so hard to tackle: Our stubborn energy system (www.axios.com)

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Civility and Its Discontents (www.nybooks.com)

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Wikimedia's sites are “suffering from a large and broad DDoS attack” (twitter.com)

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Bicycles can help save the planet and improve our cities (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Whats the most kick-ass Linux laptop these days? (item?id=20902600)

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Google misleads restaurant customers with a big blue “Order Online” button (newfoodeconomy.org)

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Evolution of metal ions in biological systems (en.wikipedia.org)

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My Grandmother, a Survivor of War, and a Pioneer Science Communicator 1950-1980 (thoughtscapism.com)

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Whales move over $1B worth of Bitcoin to a single wallet (decrypt.co)

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Physics and Imagination (philipball.blogspot.com)

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ThinkProgress, a Top Progressive News Site, Has Shut Down (thedailybeast.com)

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The GMO debate won't be settled technocratically (www.thenewatlantis.com)

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600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of '123456' (www.zdnet.com)

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Mungo Man Finally Returns Home (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything (slate.com)

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Secret Terrorism Watchlist Found Unconstitutional in Historic Decision (theintercept.com)

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Unsolicited nudes detected and deleted by AI (www.bbc.com)

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Building a “Simple” Distributed System – The What (jack-vanlightly.com)

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LibreOffice Has a New Macro Team (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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Identification of Software Validation Shortcomings (blog.fdazilla.com)

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Microsoft Hosts First Windows Subsystem for Linux Conference (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: How do you track your blog traffic? (item?id=20894117)

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Ask HN: What do you expect from a senior software engineer? (item?id=20897326)

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In 1991 scientists created an internal image of the human body during sex (www.vice.com)

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Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow Are Moving to CC-by-SA 4.0 (meta.stackexchange.com)

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Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime (www.marketwatch.com)

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Landing of Chandrayaan-2 on Lunar Surface (www.youtube.com)

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OR Union Wants Voters to Limit Grocers to Two Self-Checkout Stations per Store (www.wweek.com)

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We scientists must rise up to prevent the climate crisis. Words aren’t enough (www.theguardian.com)

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Vaping-Induced Lung Injury (www.nejm.org)

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Smart People Should Read Fewer Books and Listen to More Podcasts (nickwignall.com)

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Chili pepper compound may slow down lung cancer (www.medicalnewstoday.com)

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Show HN: A minimalist polyglot toolkit for building fast, scalable microservices (github.com)

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One skill that doesn’t deteriorate with age (theconversation.com)

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Apple Just Shipped Web Components to Production and You Probably Missed It (dev.to)

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Marc Andreessen shares the 4 realities fContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1acing every entrepreneur today (www.fastcompany.com)

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The Comprehensive Guide to the State Management in iOS (www.appcoda.com)

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