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ColorBox by Lyft Design (https://www.colorbox.io)

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What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)

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Do It Yurtself (imgur.com)

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Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari (github.com)

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Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks (paulcavallaro.com)

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WeWTF, Part Deux (www.profgalloway.com)

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Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not (ourworldindata.org)

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Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies (www.nytimes.com)

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Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe (techcrunch.com)

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NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014) (www.bloomberg.com)

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel (www.zdnet.com)

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Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Anxious tech workers are going to therapy (www.nytimes.com)

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‘Worse Than Anyone Expected’: Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions (www.nytimes.com)

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America has two economies–and they’re diverging fast (www.brookings.edu)

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100k free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice (www.theverge.com)

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The BeagleBone AI is Available (beagleboard.org)

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Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (www.microsoft.com)

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Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash (www.economist.com)

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The C4 model for visualising software architecture (c4model.com)

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Remind HN: Put contact info in your profile if you'd like to be contacted (item?id=21027730)

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Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages (nautil.us)

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The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (www.johndcook.com)

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Fed plans to conduct daily repo operations until October 10 (www.newyorkfed.org)

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The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella (www.bloomberg.com)

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Volkswagen unveils the ID.3, its first affordable long-range electric car (www.theverge.com)

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Most prolific Chrome extension developer has ~72M installs across 618 extensions (extensionmonitor.com)

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Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C (higherlogics.blogspot.com)

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A ‘Grass-Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded By Its Biggest Rivals (www.wsj.com)

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Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast (www.reuters.com)

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U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than by burning coal (www.bloomberg.com)

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TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well (www.anandtech.com)

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NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger Resigned (www.prnewswire.com)

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French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games (www.vg247.com)

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iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer (twitter.com)

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An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line (github.com)

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Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers (www.theatlantic.com)

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Georgia's entire voter file potentially compromised after voting machine theft (www.wsbtv.com)

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The brain may actively forget during REM sleep (www.nih.gov)

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Chrome 78 Beta- a new Houdini API, native file system access and more (blog.chromium.org)

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Eidophor – Giant Projection system used in Apollo control center (en.wikipedia.org)

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A Chinese social credit song (www.whatsonweibo.com)

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Books Won't Die (www.theparisreview.org)

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Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy (www.ft.com)

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Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah (bostonreview.net)

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Facebook Says It Has Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps (www.nytimes.com)

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Minimum unit pricing may have helped reduce alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow (www.scotsman.com)

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Gatekeeper – Policy Controller for Kubernetes (github.com)

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Belgian police forced to stop using facial recognition (Dutch) (www.hln.be)

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Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars by InSight (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Ask HN: Resources for Learning about Databases (item?id=21033951)

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French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law (www.polygon.com)

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Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (www.theorangeduck.com)

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Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments (www.economist.com)

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Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work (www.npr.org)

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A Taxonomy of Moats (reactionwheel.net)

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Show HN: cq – Query CSVs using SQL (github.com)

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Conference Speakers, Check Your Egos (davidbisset.com)

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Mathematics Duel that led to the solution of the cubic (storyofmathematics.com)

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Reconstructing Denisovan Anatomy Using DNA Methylation Maps (www.cell.com)

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Containership.io Shuts Down (docs.containership.io)

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MIT Media Lab hid excessive chemical dumping from regulators (www.propublica.org)

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Was Ramesses II That Great? (www.historyextra.com)

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Leaked screenshots show how Apple's tracker tags might work (www.engadget.com)

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Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? (2018) (papers.ssrn.com)

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Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’ – Barron's (www.barrons.com)

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The brutal reality behind the booming healing crystals craze (www.theguardian.com)

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Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago (www.schneier.com)

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Edward Snowden says he didn't cooperate with Russian intelligence services (www.npr.org)

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How Orson Welles Stole ”The Third Man” (cinephiliabeyond.org)

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CHP Arrests Driver Impersonating Chinese Paramilitary Police (www.thedrive.com)

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Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees (futurism.com)

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The Repo Market Explained (www.bloomberg.com)

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Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions (joshualoong.com)

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Zelda Games on the Philips CD-i (en.wikipedia.org)

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Charter of the Forest (en.wikipedia.org)

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Tell Congress: Don’t Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users (act.eff.org)

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Bots Help Moderate Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)

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Twitter discloses 10k accounts suspended for fomenting political discord (techcrunch.com)

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Wagner: totalizing master of endless melodies (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever (www.theguardian.com)

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City of London practices on trial in Bonn (www.theguardian.com)

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Google announces €3B EU data centre investment (tkrt.io)

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The enigma of bronze age tin (phys.org)

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Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein (standpointmag.co.uk)

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DHS Just Recognized White Nationalism as a Major Terror Threat (www.vice.com)

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Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors (2019) (cwe.mitre.org)

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Aerial Saw Is Boon to Line Trimming (www.tdworld.com)

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Painting with Math Formulas in Google Sheets [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Extremely rare stratospheric warming shows no sign of ending (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Ted Talk: How craving attention makes you less creative – Joseph Gordon-Levitt (www.youtube.com)

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A dentist made a game in MS Paint and it's terrifying (www.engadget.com)

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Bootstrapping a SaaS to and$250K/Month on a Competitive Market (www.failory.com)

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Optics and Regex: Greater than the sum of their parts (chrispenner.ca)

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Campaign to take down Amazon is being funded by Amazon’s biggest rivals (www.marketwatch.com)

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Angst and the Empty Set (2014) (nautil.us)

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When TCP sockets refuse to die (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Tildamail – Private Email with Decentralized Storage (Your Desktop, S3, IPFS) (https://www.tildamail.com)

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Google Translator Toolkit to be shut down on December 4, 2019 (support.google.com)

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WebSocket Inspection in Firefox 70 (twitter.com)

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Amazon pledges net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and 100% renewables by 2030 (techcrunch.com)

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Journalists working in Chinese state media to be tested on loyalty to Xi Jinping (www.theguardian.com)

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Trillion-Dollar Coin (en.wikipedia.org)

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She Won Athletes' Hearts. and Robbed Them Blind (www.si.com)

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Goldman Sachs says the market is about to get wild in October (www.cnbc.com)

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An outdated idea about solar panels has been slowing advancement: study (www.inverse.com)

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Why I Changed my Opinion on China (youtube.com)

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Famous Diophantine Equations (medium.com)

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Reinventing Home Directories – systemd-homed [pdf] (cfp.all-systems-go.io)

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Don't use a custom domain with Droplr (medium.com)

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Longer, healthier lives will spark a new generational conflict (www.technologyreview.com)

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What’s new in civic tech: National Day of Civic Hacking (www.govtech.com)

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Andrew Cuomo and the Curious Case of the $81M Elevator (slate.com)

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Microsoft Program Synthesis Using Examples SDK (microsoft.github.io)

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SHTF: How to Protect Yourself from Hackers (secretsofsurvival.com)

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New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous again (www.wired.co.uk)

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Learn about Kubernetes components required to run stateful Kafka Streams apps (dev.to)

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The Divorce Rattling Silicon Valley and Democratic Politics (nymag.com)

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Cultivating Stoic Antifragility: Stoicism and Emotional Resilience (medium.com)

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Cuba Sonic Weapon May Have Been Mosquito Gas (item?id=21028564)

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Levelling the playing field (standpointmag.co.uk)

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Towards Qt 6 [pdf] (conf.kde.org)

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Anthropologists and Novelists (2018) (www.publicbooks.org)

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Show HN: Boringcodecompany – because someone has to do the boring dev work (https://boringcodecompany.com)

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Researchers build a quantum dot energy harvester (phys.org)

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In defence of conspiracy theories (and why the term is a misnomer) (theconversation.com)

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AMD Revs Up HPC Variant as Rome Chips Ramp (www.nextplatform.com)

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Online Collaboration Tools for Managing Remote Teams (habr.com)

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Super PAC's Browser Extension Replaces 'Mitch McConnell' with 'Moscow Mitch' (thehill.com)

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