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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments (playhearthstone.com)

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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong (blog.emojipedia.org)

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Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts (helpx.adobe.com)

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'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology (www.theguardian.com)

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Supreme Court allows retailers to be sued if websites are not accessible (www.latimes.com)

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The Rich Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You (www.nytimes.com)

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99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script (bitbucket.org)

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After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web (www.vice.com)

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My application ran away and called home from Redmond (medium.com)

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Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type (www.asahi.com)

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macOS Catalina is available today (www.apple.com)

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A Multithreaded fork of Redis that is 5X Faster than Redis (docs.keydb.dev)

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South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China” (twitter.com)

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Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API (nagix.github.io)

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Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant? (item?id=21189801)

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Web Graphics Done Right (evilmartians.com)

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150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com (blog.acolyer.org)

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (fangpenlin.com)

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Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé (www.thedailybeast.com)

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X-ray technique can reverse engineer an entire chip without damaging it (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Compact Disc Structure (byuu.net)

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Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina (developer.apple.com)

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Collapse OS (collapseos.org)

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Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn (dtm.carnegiescience.edu)

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Show HN: Spotify for the Terminal Written in Rust (github.com)

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 (www.nobelprize.org)

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Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture (www.citylab.com)

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VeraCrypt 1.24 (www.veracrypt.fr)

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage appeal (www.reuters.com)

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Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA (cleantechnica.com)

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Clojure 1.11 planning (insideclojure.org)

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The Inuit agree on a common writing system (www.economist.com)

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R is a joy if you treat it like Awk (dwrodri.blog)

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GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees (www.businessinsider.com)

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Foundations of Data Science [pdf] (www.cs.cornell.edu)

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Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (2017) (lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com)

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Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest (www.invenglobal.com)

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PG&E could shut off power across Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday (www.berkeleyside.com)

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Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name (theoutline.com)

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Seattle looks to rein in policy used to quash big projects and developments (www.capitolhillseattle.com)

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Taboola and Outbrain are merging to create a clickbait giant (www.nytimes.com)

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Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go (git.sr.ht)

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Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing (engineering.fb.com)

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China’s Millennials (www.lrb.co.uk)

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Cross Laminated Timber (avc.com)

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Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Learning How to Prove: From the Coq Proof Assistant to Textbook Style (arxiv.org)

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Perl is dying quick. Could be extinct by 2023 (thehftguy.com)

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Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong (www.nytimes.com)

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Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries (kottke.org)

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China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears (www.bloomberg.com)

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NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games (www.theguardian.com)

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What3Words submitting takedown requests against Tweets [pdf] (www.owenboswarva.com)

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Meat and Three and Ten Dollars’ Worth of Regular (bittersoutherner.com)

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Norway's largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies (www.reuters.com)

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What’s the most asinine technical requirement you’ve had to work into a design? (prokopetz.tumblr.com)

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World's top banks pour $1.9T into fossil fuel financing since 2015 (www.banktrack.org)

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South Park Scrubbed from Chinese Internet (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial (slatestarcodex.com)

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Slog: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)

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We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting (www.vulture.com)

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San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless (www.city-journal.org)

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Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum startups (www.nature.com)

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Can a Machine Learn to Write for the New Yorker? (www.newyorker.com)

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Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test (andreadallover.com)

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The economics of streaming is changing pop songs (www.economist.com)

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The Troubling Economics of Food Halls (heated.medium.com)

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Undeclared Martial Law on the Streets of Hong Kong (www.youtube.com)

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Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting (cloudbit.io)

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Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, University of Oxford (github.com)

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Rockbox – Free music player firmware (www.rockbox.org)

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‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history (www.timesofisrael.com)

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The Dark Side of Light (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Virtual Card Read-Punch – Punch, Read, Execute Virtual Punch Cards (www.masswerk.at)

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Iraq army fire on unarmed civilians protesting(video, graphic) (mobile.twitter.com)

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Reddit, where chaos thrives, tries to clean up to attract ads from big brands (www.latimes.com)

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Hong Kong Cabinet member floats internet curbs to contain unrest (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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An Interactive HashiCorp Vault Shell (github.com)

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Adventures in parametric textile pattern design (stuffmatic.com)

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$200 Linux Laptop Pinebook Pro Is Available for Purchase (itsfoss.com)

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Ask HN: How to cope with burnout every 6 months? (item?id=21187231)

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Next Housing Recession in 2020, Predicts Zillow (www.investopedia.com)

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Real-Time Web Apps with Zero Lines of JavaScript (engineering.instawork.com)

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Supreme Court Rejects Domino’s on Blind Man’s Website Lawsuit (www.bloomberg.com)

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In Which We Were Safe with Yukio Mishima (2017) (thisrecording.wordpress.com)

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Apple Releases macOS X Catalina (www.macrumors.com)

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J. Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019) (www.nature.com)

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Linus Torvalds isn't worried about Microsoft taking over Linux (www.zdnet.com)

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U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities over Abuses in Xinjiang (www.nytimes.com)

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Capitalism Made This Mess, and This Mess Will Ruin Capitalism (www.wired.com)

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New Mutations at Different Speeds (elifesciences.org)

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High-energy experiment is generally statistically unsound (kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)

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Is AMD Returning to Open-Source BIOS/Coreboot Support? (news.slashdot.org)

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Why Are Rich People So Mean? (www.wired.com)

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A little car you can drive in France without a licence (www.bbc.com)

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Ubuntu installer now supports ZFS on the boot partition (git.launchpad.net)

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Is Guy Fieri in Your Node.js Packages? (nodesource.com)

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Hong Kong’s Hard-Core Protesters Take Justice into Their Own Hands (www.nytimes.com)

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AWS Lambda Firefox (github.com)

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South Park has reportedly been banned in China after criticizing censorship (www.businessinsider.com)

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The search for Betsy, bovine escape artist (story.californiasunday.com)

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 (www.nobelprize.org)

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Navi Goes Mainstream, Mobile: AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 Aims for Smooth 1080p Gaming (www.tomshardware.com)

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'South Park' creators issue a mocking 'apology' to China (www.businessinsider.com)

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Joint Statement on the GNU Project (guix.gnu.org)

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Show HN: We built screen recording synced with console logs (chrome.google.com)

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Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and Copyleft (2014) (lwn.net)

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Hunstable Electric Turbine claims greater output than electric motors (www.autoblog.com)

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Joe Rogan Experience #1361 – Cmdr. David Fravor on UFO Chase (www.youtube.com)

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DHH (Rails) and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress) talk about open source [notes] (smashnotes.com)

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From Dec 1, 2019 Chinese govt will have full access to every server in China (www.chinalawblog.com)

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Show HN: I made a website for developers and digital designers (http://www.colorsandfonts.com)

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GE freezing pensions for 20k employees (www.marketwatch.com)

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When Efforts to Eat 'Clean' Become an Unhealthy Obsession (www.npr.org)

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macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Art Technica Review (arstechnica.com)

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A Lidar-Validated Trajectory for a Long Home Run (technology.mlblogs.com)

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California Laws Seek to Crack Down on Deepfakes in Politics and Porn (www.cnet.com)

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In a Perpetual Present (2016) (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: Who have taken months off to learn coding and explore startup ideas? (item?id=21182802)

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Let Me Explain This Hilarious Cycling Scandal to You (deadspin.com)

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〔Coding style〕Reasons to add the curly brackets behind if / for / while in C/C++ (medium.com)

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Muon – A Light(er)weight GPU Based Electron Alternative Using Ultralight and Go (github.com)

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Huawei’s TinyBERT Is 7X Smaller and 9X Faster Than Bert (medium.com)

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PHP Arrays Aren’t Arrays (medium.com)

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China Banned South Park After the Show Made Fun of Chinese Censorship (reason.com)

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Telegram Became White Nationalists' Go-To Messaging Platform (www.vice.com)

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Mistakes I Made as a First-Time UX Manager (blog.praveen.science)

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U.S. Agency Reviews Claims Tesla Should Have Recalled 2000 Cars (interestingengineering.com)

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A Federal Privacy Board Is Reviewing DHS’ Airport Facial Recognition Programs (www.nextgov.com)

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A Free Coding Curriculum for Beginners (medium.com)

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Meatless meat is becoming mainstream – and it’s sparking a backlash (www.vox.com)

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Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds (www.nytimes.com)

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Pivot (YC W15) hiring a senior full-stack engineer �Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1�� consumer fitness hardware (jobs.lever.co)

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Tech talks at sea: Join Flexport for a cruise of the Oakland port (techtalksatseavision.splashthat.com)

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