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Joichi Ito Resigns After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties (www.nytimes.com)

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Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know, and what we’re doing (wikimediafoundation.org)

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A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf] (techworker.coop)

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Goodreads Is Broken (onezero.medium.com)

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CSRF is really dead (scotthelme.co.uk)

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Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them (www.wsj.com)

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Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom (github.com)

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Great products do less, but better (uxdesign.cc)

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Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD” (sourceware.org)

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Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers? (item?id=20908168)

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Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python (blogs.dropbox.com)

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Why industry is going green on the quiet (www.theguardian.com)

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Julia Academy: Learn ML, Parallel Programming, Julia and More (www.juliaacademy.com)

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The American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Driving an Ambulance in the Age of Narcan (hazlitt.net)

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Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud based Password Managers? (item?id=20909019)

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Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics (www.nytimes.com)

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Most programmers don't know what Expect can do for them (wiki.tcl-lang.org)

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Tesla Model 3 = 12.4% of All Norwegian Vehicle Sales January–July 2019 (cleantechnica.com)

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Malcolm Gladwell's famous 10k hour rule isn't holding up in new research (www.businessinsider.com)

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Utopia, Abandoned: The Olivetti Town (www.nytimes.com)

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Why Haskell Is Important (www.tweag.io)

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MSI-1436 stimulates regeneration of heart and multiple other tissues (www.nature.com)

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DNA from cigarette butt leads to arrest of pipeline protester 3 years later (kfgo.com)

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Show HN: I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies (https://www.jumproot.com)

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Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession (www.nytimes.com)

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‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 countries (www.france24.com)

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The days are long but the decades are short (2015) (blog.samaltman.com)

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HK protesters use “unblockable” messaging via a bluetooth mesh (www.bbc.com)

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Trying to Convince People to Change (2016) (www.camilletalk.com)

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The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites (www.theguardian.com)

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The Top Programming Languages 2019 (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Interesting Data Engineering Papers (github.com)

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Appwrite: A New Open-Source Back End Server for Mobile and Web Developers (medium.com)

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A Tale of Two LEDs (dtrace.org)

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New ways to make vertical farming stack up (www.economist.com)

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How Did a Nissan Leaf Beat a Tesla Model S in a Race? (cleantechnica.com)

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The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad (www.theatlantic.com)

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Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production (about.bnef.com)

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Lithium-ion test results to be used as benchmarks for new battery technologies (m.jes.ecsdl.org)

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Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace (gizmodo.com)

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App Updates for HTML5 Apps (developer.apple.com)

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You don’t have to be “pro-nuclear” or “anti-nuclear.” (www.vox.com)

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Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly (durmonski.com)

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High-flying geese are ‘the astronauts of the bird world’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Outbreak of Lung Illness Associated with Using E-Cigarette Products (www.cdc.gov)

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America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis (www.cnbc.com)

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Why No One Is Beating Tesla's Range (jalopnik.com)

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The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2008) (digitalhumanities.org)

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Radio emission from neutron star's magnetic pole revealed by general relativity (phys.org)

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Suicide rates climbing, especially in rural America (news.osu.edu)

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Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live (www.newyorker.com)

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Insiders say an ambitious MIT Media Lab project is mostly smoke and mirrors (www.businessinsider.com)

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Rotating the Indiana Bell Building (2014) (eu.indystar.com)

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American Tycoons Created the Dinosaur (nautil.us)

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Tweet-a-Program (twitter.com)

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So you want to write a package manager (2016) (medium.com)

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Complex System Failure: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts (itnext.io)

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EA Received a Guinness World Record for Most Downvoted Comment in Reddit History (kotaku.com)

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Bitcoins worth $1B just moved to an unknown wallet (www.theblockcrypto.com)

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Apple will live stream its iPhone 11 event on YouTube for the first time (www.theverge.com)

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CVSS v3 Creates New Challenges For Developers (2018) (whitesourc.com)

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Noria: UI Reconciliation Library for Clojure, Kotlin and Rust (github.com)

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“She wrote the first loop, I will never forget. None of us ever will.” (news.harvard.edu)

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Drowning in plastic: Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles (graphics.reuters.com)

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Metaphors Are Us (2013) (nautil.us)

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Show HN: I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies (item?id=20903273)

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Intel Processor Trace Part 3: Analyzing Performance Glitches (easyperf.net)

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Eating, Dining, and Snacking at the New York World's Fair (2014) (restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com)

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Why Can’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis? (www.rollingstone.com)

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The NSA Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia (theintercept.com)

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The Iceberg of React Hooks (medium.com)

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Predatory conference scammers are getting smarter (www.chemistryworld.com)

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Ask HN: How do you find jobs / companies you want to work? (item?id=20904750)

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AI-powered cameras become new tool against mass shootings (www.latimes.com)

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DNS-over-HTTPS privacy and security concerns (godaddy.github.io)

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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins (www.lrb.co.uk)

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Joi Ito Resigns from MIT Media Lab (twitter.com)

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The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida (www.newyorker.com)

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Gesticulations 001 (2017) (erratique.ch)

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Edward O. Wilson Finds Hope in Selfless Ants and Ecology Studies (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Biohackers trying to build a bootleg version of a million-dollar drug (www.cbc.ca)

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From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out (nesslabs.com)

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Presto-Distributed SQL query engine for big data (github.com)

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Show HN: Game Engine Using LLVM and Ruby (XPlat Including WASM) (fiddle.dragonruby.org)

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ALExA: Automatic Listening Exploitation Act. $40k Fine for Violations (govtrackinsider.com)

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Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle (www.eurekalert.org)

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I don’t understand micro-front ends (medium.com)

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Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google (arstechnica.com)

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Anand Giridharadas Resigns from MIT Disobedience Award Jury (twitter.com)

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The turn against motherhood – Why it has become fashionable not to have children (www.spiked-online.com)

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Where is Open Source taking Telco? (or is it the other way around?) (twitter.com)

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Battling Climate Change from Space (item?id=20908704)

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People Urged to Stop Vaping Following More Deaths, Hundreds of Illnesses (www.wsj.com)

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Kickshitter (om.co)

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To understand climate change, you must first understand clouds (www.theverge.com)

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A Tour of Scheme in Gambit (2008) [pdf] (dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca)

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams is the worst blogger (theoutline.com)

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