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Sunsetting Python 2 (www.python.org)

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Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList (item?id=20914236)

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Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986 (www.nme.com)

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The Cult of Kubernetes (christine.website)

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Tiler: Build Images with Images (github.com)

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Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression? (2008-2016) (stackoverflow.com)

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CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads (techcrunch.com)

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Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by HK police (www.latimes.com)

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The Riemann Hypothesis (golem.ph.utexas.edu)

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Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft (venturebeat.com)

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Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf] (cse.buffalo.edu)

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Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles (electrek.co)

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Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago? (item?id=20914127)

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Popcount CPU instruction (vaibhavsagar.com)

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Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours (www.insider.com)

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Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones (www.bloomberg.com)

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Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei (protonmail.com)

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Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer? (item?id=20911340)

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Japanese Settlement Found in Forests of British Columbia (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Systems Thinking in Practice (www.ryanfrantz.com)

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Game developer loses multiplayer service code (steamcommunity.com)

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Ask HN: Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new grads/students to learn? (item?id=20914046)

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25 Years of PHP [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast 'underground Galapagos' (www.nbcnews.com)

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India locates lander lost on final approach to moon (apnews.com)

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Ask HN: What is key to good technical documentation? (item?id=20909783)

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Rekursiv Computers (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Future of Mathematics? [pdf] (wwwf.imperial.ac.uk)

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Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers (lawler.io)

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DMVs in the U.S. are selling drivers’ information to private investigators (www.vice.com)

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Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' origins (www.theguardian.com)

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Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of war (www.economist.com)

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Smoke point of cooking oils (en.wikipedia.org)

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It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Responsibly Fly a Drone (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Vandalize Your Car (jalopnik.com)

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String Lengths in Unicode (hsivonen.fi)

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Lyft Creates Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data (eng.lyft.com)

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Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application (twitter.com)

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How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with Disabilities (www.yesmagazine.org)

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Kafka Streams, the Clojure Way (clojure-conundrums.co.uk)

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Report reveals play-by-play of first U.S. grid cyberattack (www.eenews.net)

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When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)

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A report on Chinese digital surveillance and hacking of Uyghurs (www.volexity.com)

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In-Emulator Machine Translation of Retro Games (www.libretro.com)

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Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (2016) (www.elidedbranches.com)

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Information gerrymandering in social networks skews collective decision-making (www.nature.com)

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The American Aristotle (aeon.co)

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OpenBSD/loongson is still alive (ftp.openbsd.org)

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Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music (thebaffler.com)

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Waveglow Inference in CUDA C++ (github.com)

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Show HN: Cherry2.0 – text classification without ML knowledge needed (github.com)

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The Heir to a Tofu Dynasty Finally Learns to Make Tofu (www.nytimes.com)

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Large Waterloo student rental companies get hacked over shady business practices (np.reddit.com)

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IBM 7030 Stretch (en.wikipedia.org)

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Improving our homemade JavaScript obfuscator (antoinevastel.com)

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British Airways pilots ground planes in unprecedented 48-hour strike (www.reuters.com)

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Huawei heats up the battle for internet in Canada's north (www.bbc.com)

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Are forest fires as bad as they seem? (www.bbc.com)

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S0lly's [Cell]Ivization – Civ 1 Clone in Excel (s0lly.itch.io)

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A captcha powered by mathematical equations (wehatecaptchas.com)

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You Can Buy Paul Allen's Octopus, Arguably the World's Most Incredible Yacht (www.thedrive.com)

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Sosml: A Standard ML Interpreter Written in TypeScript (github.com)

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Beyond Lennon Walls: Ways to Support the Hong Kong Protests from Afar (github.com)

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Pourquoi-Pas (1908) (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, but Lots of Data (fortune.com)

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The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Lab (slate.com)

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Scala on Track to Support Java 9 Module System (github.com)

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The great break-up of Big Tech is finally beginning (www.theguardian.com)

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React Hook Pitfalls (www.youtube.com)

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The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy (www.politico.com)

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Former Boeing official subpoenaed in 737 MAX probe won’t turn over documents (www.seattletimes.com)

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Want 1.5TB of RAM in Your PC? It Will Cost You (www.zdnet.com)

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Leaked UN Climate Report – Warming Oceans Are ‘Poised to Unleash Misery’ (nymag.com)

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‘Get a Weapon’ (www.theatlantic.com)

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Go: Overview of the Compiler (medium.com)

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AWS Lambda Cold Start Language Comparisons (levelup.gitconnected.com)

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Show HN: A hierarchical Markdown notetaking tool with mouse/tablet drawing (github.com)

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An interesting approach on checking if a tree is a sub tree of another (mohit.athwani.net)

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Book Summary: Atomic Habits by James Clear (durmonski.com)

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Could Letting Drivers Communicate via LED Screen Help Quell Road Rage? (www.lamag.com)

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What Happened to the Guys Who Invested Their Life Savings in Cryptocurrency? (melmagazine.com)

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Firefox plans making DNS over HTTPS default (www.forbes.com)

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On Joi and MIT (medium.com)

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Show HN: A minimalist toolkit for building scalable REST microservices (github.com)

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Cloud Cities of Venus - Why So Set on Colonizing Mars? There’s Better Options (medium.com)

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Taking Apart a Tesla Battery (hackaday.com)

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The Greatest Roman Emperor You’ve Never Heard Of (fee.org)

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Students discover bacteria that ingest ocean plastic and excrete water (www.physics-astronomy.org)

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'Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data and He Never Used the Internet' (slashdot.org)

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Black hole movies coming soon, says leading astronomer (phys.org)

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The Capital Allocation Guide for CEOs (behavioralvalueinvestor.com)

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Demo Authoring: Now and Then (speckdrumm.github.io)

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Google Search Apparently Indexes over 80M Torrent Hashes (torrentfreak.com)

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Wikipedia Moves to CloudFlare (twitter.com)

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Idleness (thepointmag.com)

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AI is going to make your job even harder (www.theatlantic.com)

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Planet PostgreSQL (planet.postgresql.org)

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Phosphate fertiliser 'crisis' threatens world food supply (www.theguardian.com)

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Silicon Valley man launches a hunger strike against housing the homeless (medium.com)

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The Cobra Effect: Lessons in Unintended Consequences (fee.org)

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Millions of Exim servers vulnerable to root-granting exploit (www.zdnet.com)

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Reasons Not to Be a Manager (charity.wtf)

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California is about to rewrite the rules of the gig economy (qz.com)

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Swedish scientist advocates eating humans to combat climate change (bigthink.com)

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The language you speak changes how informative you can be (qz.com)

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The Riforma Fondiaria in Postwar Italy (placesjournal.org)

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Virus Lasers for Biological Detection (www.nature.com)

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Chernobyl: The True Cost of Technical Debt (medium.com)

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Microsoft: The Musical (www.youtube.com)

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What Is Web-Scraping and How to Start (www.coriers.com)

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Show HN: Standalone Implementation of WebRTC DataChannels in C++17 (github.com)

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Nobody’s sharing anything in an Uber: The insidious spin behind ‘ridesharing’ (www.sfchronicle.com)

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An Ex-Google Techlead Was Fired from Facebook for Having a YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com)

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Disney Inks Long-Term Deal to Occupy Most of Pinewood Studios (variety.com)

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Leveraging Web Workers for Client-Side Applications with React and Redux (www.memsql.com)

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Learning at Scale: Definitions (tiny-giant-books.com)

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The Heroes Machine (scripting.com)

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Android 10–The Ars Technica Review (arstechnica.com)

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Apple launches all-new Apple Music web app in public beta (9to5mac.com)

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The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager for Data (& More) (www.themuse.com)

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