hackerNews

7

Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption (www.eff.org)

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4

Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence (blog.stephsmith.io)

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Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline (cellio.dreamwidth.org)

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1

No_color: Disabling ANSI color output in various Unix commands (no-color.org)

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Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool (towardsdatascience.com)

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12

macOS no longer allows changing WiFi mac address (slashdot.org)

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22

Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. (dearstackexchange.com)

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1

Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this (www.feastgenius.com)

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22

The Pointlessness of Daily Standups (codethrasher.com)

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10

How Bash Completion Works (tuzz.tech)

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2

Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy (github.com)

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5

An apology to our community, and next steps (by Stack Overflow's CTO) (meta.stackexchange.com)

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12

Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report (www.iphoneincanada.ca)

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1

Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded (phys.org)

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22

Farmer studied law for 16 years to sue company dumping hazardous waste (www.independent.co.uk)

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27

LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by upto 50% (twitter.com)

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28

I hate living in my tiny house (www.fastcompany.com)

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5

Tectonic – Modern TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust (tectonic-typesetting.github.io)

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4

Building a constraint programming solver in Julia (opensourc.es)

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12

An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Newest Flight Simulator (inspire.eaa.org)

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2

Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018) (www.citylab.com)

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3

Preparing for 25 Years (scripting.com)

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4

Fractional Brownian Motion for Terrain Generation (iquilezles.org)

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6

Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users (in.reuters.com)

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13

Court says FCC’s net neutrality repeal can’t stop state laws (techcrunch.com)

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5

New chips for machine intelligence (www.jameswhanlon.com)

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5

The privacy trade-offs of cheap Android smartphones (www.fastcompany.com)

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13

The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies (www.nytimes.com)

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34

World's Best-Run Pension Funds Say It's Time to Start Worrying (www.bloomberg.com)

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33

The Google SEO Bible: Everything a Startup Needs to Know (salon.thefamily.co)

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8

Show HN: Small Clojure Interpreter (github.com)

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16

Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI (and its source code) (www.youtube.com)

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23

Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer (pointersgonewild.com)

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15

The Untold Story About the Founding of Google Maps (medium.com)

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6

Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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0

The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong (www.wsj.com)

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14

Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance (datto.engineering)

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24

How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work (spin.atomicobject.com)

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24

Void Linux Musl on the Huawei MateBook X Pro (bitcannon.net)

89 points first seen 2019100700 last seen 2019100709 71 comments

4

Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015) (www.sciencedirect.com)

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19

Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture [pdf] (web.eecs.umich.edu)

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0

I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor (newrepublic.com)

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0

CBP officer holds journalist's passport until he agrees he writes ‘propaganda’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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11

Chile’s attempts to move up the lithium value chain are not working (www.economist.com)

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24

Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models (www.nature.com)

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25

On TikTok, There Is No Time (www.wired.com)

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10

Monty Python at 50 (www.theguardian.com)

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12

The Shannon Limit (2010) (news.mit.edu)

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19

Waze Data Can Help Predict Car Crashes and Cut Response Time (www.wired.com)

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9

New evolution-busting drug overcomes resistance in aggressive breast cancers (www.icr.ac.uk)

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17

How UMAP Works (towardsdatascience.com)

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7

A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (lemire.me)

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8

Extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from contemporary UK population (www.nature.com)

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20

Wazo Platform: build carrier-grade programmable IP communication infrastructures (www.wazo-platform.org)

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41

Houston Rockets general manager apologises for Hong Kong protest tweet (www.reuters.com)

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24

TikTok famous: How the app is turning teenagers into celebrities (www.vox.com)

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44

API design: Which version of versioning is right for you? (cloud.google.com)

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27

Windows Exploitation Tricks: Spoofing Named Pipe Client PID (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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31

A simple file encryption tool and format (docs.google.com)

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12

Potion Lang (perl11.org)

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6

Mun Programming Language (mun-lang.org)

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21

Engineering a Sort Function [pdf] (cs.fit.edu)

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25

Robots Are Catching Up to Humans in the Jobs Race (www.bloomberg.com)

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42

Jackson-databind – remote code execution vulnerability (lists.debian.org)

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0

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor (www.propublica.org)

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14

Tee-Ball (blog.cjeller.site)

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31

Flowsheets Visualizations (2017) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Thieves return hand stolen from Montreal totem pole, with an apology note (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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49

Lego Upsets Fans by Taking Down Homebrew 3D Print Designs (torrentfreak.com)

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15

The Derail of Desires (hongchao.me)

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47

Microsoft’s new custom Surface processors with AMD and Qualcomm: an inside look (www.theverge.com)

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55

What are the top textbooks for data structures? (item?id=21174225)

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0

You Crashed a $3M Bugatti. Now What? (www.bloomberg.com)

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50

NASA shares 3D Moon data for CG artists and creators (techcrunch.com)

19 points first seen 2019100700 last seen 2019100712 0 comments

51

Serverless Architecture – All you need to know about caching (theburningmonk.com)

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0

Millions of Android Phones Are Vulnerable to Israeli Surveillance Dealer Attack (www.forbes.com)

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0

Atlanta Asks Google Whether It Targeted Black Homeless People (www.nytimes.com)

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55

Show HN: Clockwork- Distributed, Scalable Job Scheduler (cynic.dev)

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66

Tesla ends Model 3 shipments to China as Shanghai Gigafactory production begins (cleantechnica.com)

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27

Thor’s Stone, Thurstaston Common (howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com)

13 points first seen 2019100721 last seen 2019100803 5 comments

63

Recommended tools to Work with Big Geospatial Data (towardsdatascience.com)

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85

Heroku customers: we are sitting ducks for trademark bullies (item?id=21175310)

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83

NYU Professor Scott Galloway Puts Tesla and Lyft in the Same Category as WeWork (www.businessinsider.com)

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0

Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers? (item?id=21172818)

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84

An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (thenextweb.com)

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55

An Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare (www.vice.com)

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51

Easily build unique, accessible, and lightweight Vue components (stegosource.com)

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57

When you realize document.designMode is so cool (drive.google.com)

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0

Nobel prize in medicine awarded to hypoxia researchers (www.theguardian.com)

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71

SPIDR – News aggregator (http://spidr.today)

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71

An app that translates air pollution into cigarettes (shootismoke.github.io)

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31

Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals in Medieval Europe (2004) (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

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51

Why do older people hate new music? (qz.com)

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0

How to install /e/ OS on Android devices and not rely on Google services (blog.en.uptodown.com)

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88

CGI Moon Kit (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)

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0

Real-Time experiment analytics at Pinterest using Apache Flink (medium.com)

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0

The Case for a High Carbon Tax Now: Mitigating Risk (www.vox.com)

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73

Addicted to screens? That’s really a you problem (www.nytimes.com)

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86

12 Months of Bootstraping (dev.to)

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0

AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement (searchaws.techtarget.com)

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0

FSF and GNU (After Stallman's Departure from FSF) (www.fsf.org)

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57

Labor Days (2016) (cabinetmagazine.org)

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0

How to Implement the BYOD Concept and Not Harm Information Security (www.hackerfoss.com)

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0

CppCon 2019: Jason Turner “The Best Parts of C++” (www.youtube.com)

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89

Paper review: Comprehensive runtime checking in system software via watchdogs (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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0

Show HN: Using THREEJS's New InstancedMesh in React (codesandbox.io)

3 points first seen 2019100706 last seen 2019100706 0 comments

0

Kubernetes Liveness Probes Are Dangerous (srcco.de)

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0

NIH reveals its formula for tracking foreign influences (science.sciencemag.org)

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0

Sun Microsystems founders celebrate legacy (www.infoworld.com)

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0

French Urban Bees (www.forbes.com)

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0

Insane Clown Makeup Can Help You Dodge Facial Recognition Systems (www.sciencealert.com)

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24

The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a PM for Search and Discovery (www.themuse.com)

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