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Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast (www.techdirt.com)

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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO (www.forbes.com)

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Inkscape 1.0 beta 1 is available for testing (inkscape.org)

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Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy (www.techdirt.com)

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The Internet Relies on People Working for Free (onezero.medium.com)

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Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game (cosmoteer.net)

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Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor (www.gatesfoundation.org)

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Raising Prices Is Hard (www.backblaze.com)

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Fossil fuel divestment has ‘zero’ climate impact, says Bill Gates (www.ft.com)

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A crack in financial markets: NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B (www.cnn.com)

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Firefox moving to 4 week releases (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction (openai.com)

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United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden (www.justice.gov)

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Functor, Applicative, and Monad (typeslogicscats.gitlab.io)

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Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers (bytevitae.com)

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US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs (www.justice.gov)

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Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist (www.eff.org)

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China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low (www.reuters.com)

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Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet (www.namebase.io)

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Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security (NYT) (www.nytimes.com)

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Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image (www.bbc.com)

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A Love Letter to Personal Websites (www.vanschneider.com)

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Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter (www.troyhunt.com)

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A Lunar Space Elevator Is Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find (observer.com)

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Day Two to One Day (stratechery.com)

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How to Be a Professional Author and Not Die Screaming and Starving (terribleminds.com)

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Slack Shared Channels (slackhq.com)

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Take a Look at the Crossrail Station Under Bond Street (www.ianvisits.co.uk)

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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding (stackoverflow.blog)

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Open sourcing crypto-arbitrage bot in Python – back to the dawn of crypto hype (my-it-notes.com)

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Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

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WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall (www.wsj.com)

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UCLA’s 1948 Mechanical Computer [video] (vimeo.com)

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Commercial Solar (www.tesla.com)

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Why Fossils Are Mostly Male (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator (www.theguardian.com)

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My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage (github.com)

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Endurance Running Hypothesis (en.wikipedia.org)

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Why I’m Suing Lyft (medium.com)

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Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation (www.startupgifs.com)

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Make a healthy climate a legal right that extends to future generations (www.economist.com)

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Pocket Casts Is Now Free (blog.pocketcasts.com)

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Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules (www.nytimes.com)

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GoCardless launches US debit payments solution (techcrunch.com)

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Rodney Brooks – A Better Lesson (rodneybrooks.com)

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Release Keras 2.3.0 · Keras-team/Keras (github.com)

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The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis (www.wsj.com)

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Earth to warm more quickly, new climate models show (By 2100, could rise 6.5C) (phys.org)

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Stack Computers: 4.4 Architecture of the Novix NC4016 (1989) (users.ece.cmu.edu)

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L.A.'S Wildest Cafeteria Served Utopian Fantasy with a Side of Enchiladas (2014) (www.collectorsweekly.com)

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Functional RL with Keras and Tensorflow Eager (medium.com)

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How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects (www.economist.com)

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Icelandic farmers' secret ingredient: volcanoes (www.weforum.org)

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Is This Legal? (item?id=20998494)

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Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement [pdf] (www.gsa.gov)

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A typo that almost crashed a plane (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Show HN: Project Eve – Edge Virtualization Engine (github.com)

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The slow clean: the role of baths in twentieth-century literature (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Is there a way I can learn programming within 4 months? (item?id=20993082)

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Twitter: Who are these men are in this picture and how are they in my tweet? (twitter.com)

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Tesla 'Plaid' Model S crushes Porsche Taycan's Nürburgring time, witness says (www.teslarati.com)

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Pinboard at the Stanford Internet Observatory (idlewords.com)

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‘Shooting,’ ‘Bomb,’ ‘Trump’: Advertisers Blacklist News Stories Online (www.wsj.com)

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China is trying to steal military space tech.The US is running stings to stop it (qz.com)

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Maurice Sendak, Center Stage (www.nybooks.com)

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Remove Richard Stallman: Appendix A (medium.com)

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Bill Gates gave away $35B this year but his persona net worth didn't drop (www.cnbc.com)

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Study suggest Neolithic Britons processed raw milk to reduce its lactose content (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Google Fi’s Unlimited plan: more data at home and abroad (www.blog.google)

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ROCm (AMD) Now Upstreamed into TensorFlow (medium.com)

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Californians Can No Longer Be Forced to Join a Posse (loweringthebar.net)

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Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft workers have all pledged to strike on 9/20 (www.vice.com)

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Applying to YC Early Decision – Wren (YC S19) (blog.ycombinator.com)

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I am building a meme satellite (www.reddit.com)

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CVE-2019-11510: Pre-Authentication Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability (Exploit) (know.bishopfox.com)

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“DataGlyph” Embedded Digital Data (www.tauzero.com)

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In praise of John Ruskin (www.spiked-online.com)

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Dead Bodies Keep Moving for More Than a Year After Death, Scientist Finds (www.sciencealert.com)

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Study shows Amazon regions that extract petroleum have highest levels of poverty (latinamericareports.com)

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The Burden of Leadership: Why Richard Stallman Was Right to Step Down (righteousruminations.blogspot.com)

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Elon Musk says 'pedo guy' tweet did not suggest cave diver was a pedophile (www.reuters.com)

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‘They are barbaric’: Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Does the contract rate rule of thumb still apply? (item?id=20996614)

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Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front page (item?id=21003033)

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Mark of Integrity (2009) (www.cabinetmagazine.org)

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Musk spent $50k digging into critic’s personal life (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Node S2 – A TypeScript Geohashing and Geolocation Library (radar.io)

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The Voice of Casablanca (www.thenation.com)

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Documentary follows Pastafarians as they strain for recognition (www.theguardian.com)

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The Navy Says Those UFO Videos Are Real (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Create and apply simple filters to an image using OpenCV and Python (amehta.github.io)

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Female CEOs Blast Forbes List of Innovative Leaders That Includes Only One Woman (www.npr.org)

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Entire Tech Company Locked Out of Office Because of an Umbrella (twitter.com)

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Corpses Keep Moving Long After Death (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Gary Larson’s the Far Side Cartoon Coming Back (nerdist.com)

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Amazon-backed startup makes digital payment possible without Internet (retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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Russian spies in the US collected encrypted FBI radio traffic (www.nbcnews.com)

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The Utility Formerly Known as Whois (www.circleid.com)

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There might be some problems when we try to make babies in space (massivesci.com)

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Millennials are suffering from burnout at work (www.zdnet.com)

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Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet (arstechnica.com)

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The State of Homelessness in America [pdf] (www.whitehouse.gov)

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The Chinese Communist Party Wants It All (foreignpolicy.com)

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A decade later, Reddit's comment sorting still fails to do its job (www.singlelunch.com)

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Centos 8 Release on September 24 (twitter.com)

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Can We Apply DevOps Principles to Project Management? (hackernoon.com)

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Announcing Azure Private Link (azure.microsoft.com)

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The Decaf Pouch: A Little Pouch That Decaffeinates Any Cup of Coffee (www.kickstarter.com)

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A Thinkpad W520 in a fire at a local Lenovo dealer back in 2013 still works (twitter.com)

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CppCon 2019: Bjarne Stroustrup “C++20: C++ at 40” (www.youtube.com)

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Mux (YC W16) is hiring across the board to build the future of online video (mux.com)

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ScholarMe (YC S19) is hiring engineer #1 in Toronto (www.notion.so)

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Retool (YC W17) Hiring Engineers, Designers, etc. in San Francisco (item?id=21000836)

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Make School (YC W12) is hiring a growth marketer to help scale our college (jobs.lever.co)

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The Ticket Fairy (YC S15) Is Hiring a React Developer in Mumbai (angel.co)

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