hackerNews

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Stripe Joins Silicon Valley Elite with $35B Valuation (www.wsj.com)

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Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies (www.bloomberg.com)

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Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law. Good (techcrunch.com)

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A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics (github.com)

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The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition (pragprog.com)

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Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian (techcrunch.com)

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Birds Are Vanishing from North America (www.nytimes.com)

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The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so (hbr.org)

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iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review (austinmann.com)

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U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan (www.reuters.com)

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Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python [pdf] (lectures.quantecon.org)

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LLVM 9.0.0 Release (lists.llvm.org)

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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++ (blog.llvm.org)

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Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World (www.routefifty.com)

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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds (slatestarcodex.com)

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Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: How to Keep Yourself Accountable? (item?id=21024941)

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AI competitions don’t produce useful models (lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com)

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When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone (www.vogue.com)

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China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx (www.wsj.com)

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US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland (www.thelocal.ch)

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Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests (www.cbc.ca)

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The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning (www.npr.org)

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15

Working with GitHub Actions (jeffrafter.com)

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Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Walgreens (qz.com)

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12

Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more” (getkiss.org)

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Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020 (press.airbnb.com)

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Why the Federal Reserve is pouring money into the financial system (www.ft.com)

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Rent control will make housing shortages worse? (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode (github.com)

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Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3 (www.iihs.org)

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Overstock Has Had a Wild Week (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired (www.cnbc.com)

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Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why I Prefer Functional Programming (morgenthum.dev)

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Launch HN: Sparkswap (YC S18) – Buy Bitcoin Instantly over the Lightning Network (item?id=21016877)

127 points first seen 2019092006 last seen 2019092100 76 comments

14

EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution designed from scratch for containers (https://easyos.org)

127 points first seen 2019092021 last seen 2019092118 81 comments

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Breaking Pills (blog.plover.com)

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Books on Burnout (fivebooks.com)

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Colt is ending production of AR-15s (americanmilitarynews.com)

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Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem (www.jacquescorbytuech.com)

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Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Challenges in Implementing a Full-Text-Search Engine (bhavaniravi.com)

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Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch (www.coalfire.com)

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A man who linked CO2 to climate change in 1895 (cloverly.com)

98 points first seen 2019092009 last seen 2019092021 51 comments

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Wikipedia's JavaScript Initialisation on a Budget (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

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Math Reveals the Secrets of Cells’ Feedback Circuitry (www.quantamagazine.org)

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State employees authorized courthouse 'penetration,' records show (www.desmoinesregister.com)

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Hard Times in Silicon Valley? Not for the Payments Startup Stripe (www.nytimes.com)

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Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips (www.osapublishing.org)

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Fine-Tuning GPT-2 from Human Preferences (openai.com)

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Safari 13 Is Out (developer.apple.com)

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Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electric vans. (www.cnbc.com)

69 points first seen 2019092003 last seen 2019092003 47 comments

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Ask HN: Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team? (item?id=21020168)

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Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars (electrek.co)

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The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast (www.forbes.com)

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Pain Points of Web Development with WordPress (medium.com)

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Expert Says Indians Will Soon Be Water Refugees Heading for Water-Rich Europe (www.vice.com)

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Interactive Hand Pose Estimation Using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glove (igl.ethz.ch)

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UK porn bill: Throwing our privacy out with the bathwater (plsignore.com)

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Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway (arstechnica.com)

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The Cost of Preemptive Deals (blog.ycombinator.com)

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The Infinite Silences of Japan (lithub.com)

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Amazon Signs Climate Pledge to Advance Paris Climate Accords Goals by 10 Years (venturebeat.com)

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Employee dies at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters in apparent suicide (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Crisis for Birds Is a Crisis for Us All (www.nytimes.com)

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Valve is convicted in France for banning the resale of dematerialized games (www.reddit.com)

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100k AI-Generated Faces – Free to Use (generated.photos)

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Uncovering performance regressions in the TCP SACKs vulnerability fixes (databricks.com)

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Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us (onezero.medium.com)

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Show HN: Advertise for free. $0 CPM. $0 CPC (http://adtree.io)

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Chef Sugar taken down (github.com)

28 points first seen 2019092006 last seen 2019092012 6 comments

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Git – The Simple Guide (rogerdudler.github.io)

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Can the world make the chemicals it needs without oil? (www.sciencemag.org)

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Vote Today on Senate H-1B Bill (twitter.com)

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Microbe that got man drunk could help explain common liver disease (www.sciencemag.org)

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Burger King is giving up on free plastic toys for kids – when will others follow (www.theguardian.com)

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FuzzFactory: Domain-Specific Fuzzing with Waypoints (github.com)

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Extremophiles and life in the most unlikely of places (aeon.co)

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Stochastic magnetic circuits rival quantum computing (www.nature.com)

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$35B startup Stripe considers move out of San Francisco (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? (www.newyorker.com)

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As battery fires spark ongoing concerns, NFPA releases risk-addressing standards (www.utilitydive.com)

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Cancer cells have ‘unsettling’ ability to hijack the brain’s nerves (www.nature.com)

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Comcast raised prices after promising lifetime locked price in 2016 (arstechnica.com)

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The Problem with Failing to Admit We Don’t Know (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Python proposal: add immutable (persistent) dictionaries (www.python.org)

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Interpreting Rope Channels: The Birth of Greek Monumental Architecture (www.cambridge.org)

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AT&T Says Customers Can’t Sue for Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters (www.vice.com)

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IBM Sells First of New Computers (1993) (www.nytimes.com)

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Oracle's New Supercomputer Has 1,060 Raspberry Pis (www.tomshardware.com)

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Terrifying New Climate Models Warn of 6-7°C of Warming by 2100 (www.commondreams.org)

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Show HN: Simple Online Video Editor (www.veed.io)

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Daimler Ends Gas Engine Development: Full Focus on Electric Cars (insideevs.com)

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Feds seek to seize all profits from Snowden’s book over NDA violation (arstechnica.com)

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An Engineering Mistake That Made Wind Turbines Inefficient [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Debian May Need to Re-Evaluate Its Interest in “Init System Diversity” (www.phoronix.com)

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NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close to Earth in a Century” (cneos.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Is WeWork a Fraud? (medium.com)

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Which Tech Leaders Do Tech Professionals Admire? Elon Musk Heads the List (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Silicon Valley: How Stanford and the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today (vimeo.com)

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The sound of sand reveals its source (www.economist.com)

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Rivian R1T spotted doing winter testing in Tierra del Fuego – Electrek (electrek.co)

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Rivian is going to make 100k electric delivery vans for Amazon (electrek.co)

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Automation and Technological Unemployment in 1932 (medium.com)

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France dismisses Snowden’s latest request for asylum (apnews.com)

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Why can't NYC build more gems like the Hunters Point Community Library? (www.nytimes.com)

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Value of Information in Probabilistic Logic Programs (arxiv.org)

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How Do You Buy the Magna Carta? (2013) (www.usnews.com)

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Airbnb plans public listing in 2020 (www.reuters.com)

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A New View of the Birthplace of the Olympics (2016) (www.archaeology.org)

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Magellan was first to sail around the world, right? Think again (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Scientists set out how to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (www.theguardian.com)

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Game Programming Vexations Part 4: High Level vs. Low Level (www.shamusyoung.com)

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The Long-Awaited 'Theory of Everything' (www.sciencealert.com)

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Eloquent JavaScript (https://eloquentjavascript.net)

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A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding (www.newscientist.com)

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Hate Groups Accross the US (www.splcenter.org)

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System-Call Wrappers for Glibc (lwn.net)

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Weighing in: Physicists cut upper limit on neutrino’s mass in half (arstechnica.com)

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My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away (www.theguardian.com)

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Web Browser History (livinginternet.com)

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Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787 (www.schneier.com)

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Days Ahead of Climate Strike, MSFT Partners with Chevron to Speed Oil Extraction (gizmodo.com)

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The perverse incentives produced by institutional division (www.thetransportpolitic.com)

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The Simple Reason Netflix Is Paying More Than $500M for Seinfeld (www.fool.com)

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Monitoring My Servers with Prometheus (thegeekbin.com)

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Carbon Emissions Rising Despite Efforts to Reduce Them (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Harnessing machine learning to make managing your storage less of a chore (arstechnica.com)

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Senior Product Manager (Web and Mobile) – Toronto Cover (cover.applytojob.com)

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