hackerNews

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I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced (twitter.com)

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The China Cultural Clash (stratechery.com)

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NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts (www.foxbusiness.com)

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2

D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched (threatpost.com)

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5

Dark mode in CSS with `prefers-color-scheme` (tombrow.com)

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2

Personal information and ads on Twitter (help.twitter.com)

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U.S. expands blacklist to include China's top AI startups ahead of trade talks (www.reuters.com)

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5

Timsort: the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of (skerritt.blog)

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11

macOS 10.15 Vista (tyler.io)

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5

Schneier slams Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans (www.zdnet.com)

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9

How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (www.elidedbranches.com)

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3

Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half (guix.gnu.org)

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12

China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits (www.bbc.com)

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17

Why You Should Have A Side Project (erickhun.com)

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4

Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water (www.latimes.com)

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Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on her eyes (www.asiaone.com)

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9

Starving Cancer by Cutting Off Its Favorite Foods, Glucose and Glutamine (www.acsh.org)

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7

PyPy's New JSON Parser (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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11

C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing and More (www.bfilipek.com)

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12

Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability (vicki.substack.com)

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2

Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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18

The Scandal of London’s Air: Decades of Diesel Use Has Created a Crisis (www.bloomberg.com)

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US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules (www.cnbc.com)

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21

SRE as a Lifestyle Choice (medium.com)

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18

Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond (www.backblaze.com)

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8

Episode 4: How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites (www.software-engineering-unlocked.com)

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14

Show HN: All paid targeting options available on Social Media platforms (www.notion.so)

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6

OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits (marc.info)

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0

Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests (www.reddit.com)

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12

An open platform for financial inclusion not run by Facebook (www.openlibra.io)

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13

How much does air pollution cost the U.S.? (earth.stanford.edu)

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9

Everything Is Private Equity Now (www.bloomberg.com)

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18

How Much Money Do Parking Lots Make? (melmagazine.com)

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4

Cows painted like zebras attract fewer flies (edition.cnn.com)

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Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida (www.reuters.com)

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Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia (www.newsweek.com)

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8

Artifact: What Went Wrong? (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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10

Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds (arstechnica.com)

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Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks (twitter.com)

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15

Jtc – a powerful CLI tool to manipulate JSON (github.com)

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James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement (mickens.seas.harvard.edu)

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43

WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles (techcrunch.com)

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21

Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong (spectrum.ieee.org)

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16

Why Redux Makes You a Better JavaScript Developer (www.robinwieruch.de)

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Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources (devurls.com)

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Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data (www.khaosodenglish.com)

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6

Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery (www.nytimes.com)

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7

Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice (erikbern.com)

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Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation (react-hook-form.com)

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16

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

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7

Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment (www.scientificamerican.com)

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23

‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer (lithub.com)

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73

Ask HN: How do you build applications that require zero maintenance? (item?id=21192885)

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33

ePub 3.2 (www.w3.org)

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19

It's not just you: science papers are getting harder to read (2017) (www.nature.com)

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22

Applying deep learning to Airbnb search (blog.acolyer.org)

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Mozilla announces PGP Support in Thunderbird, coming 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)

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26

Shackleton's Medical Kit (granta.com)

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17

Beware of Automated Hiring (www.nytimes.com)

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28

Natural Magick (1584) (www.faculty.umb.edu)

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27

On Sitting Still in Nature (lithub.com)

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Climate change causes Australia to downgrade Great Barrier Reef′s outlook (www.dw.com)

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25

The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading (commoncog.com)

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15

The Slave of Seriousness: Susan Sontag and the era that made her possible (slate.com)

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Resilience Engineering Papers (github.com)

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Global Warming, Market Opportunity – On the Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism (bostonreview.net)

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36

Abnormal String Hashing (pzemtsov.github.io)

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21

Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests (boingboing.net)

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22

Einstein Analytics and Go (stackoverflow.blog)

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Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)

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33

Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism (fermatslibrary.com)

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24

The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra (www.wired.com)

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Postmates’ new IPO delay indicates Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley (www.vox.com)

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18

The Private Life of Lord Byron (www.theguardian.com)

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The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life (www.anandtech.com)

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23

“Pop, Pop, Pop.” She Heard Her Brain in Action (2013) (nautil.us)

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Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet (www.inlandnavigation.eu)

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says league will not apologize to China (chicago.suntimes.com)

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40

RaML — Resource Aware ML (raml.co)

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NBA chief Adam Silver says profit can't come before the league's principles (www.cnn.com)

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Show HN: I co-wrote a book on training Deep Learning models in Go (item?id=21198325)

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28

Gaugin and Van Gogh’s Social Networks (www.newstatesman.com)

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Golang Brad Fitzpatrick being attacked on his support of Hong Kong (twitter.com)

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21

Dog Ownership and Survival: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (www.ahajournals.org)

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PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California early Wednesday morning (www.sfchronicle.com)

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34

Interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A new India is emerging, and it is a country ruled by fear (www.theguardian.com)

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76

Secret Court: FBI and NSA's Massive Warrantless Dragnet Was Illegal (www.thedailybeast.com)

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40

Saving lives for seven cents each (2013) (www.jefftk.com)

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60

As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests (www.nytimes.com)

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75

Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’ (daringfireball.net)

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After Hearthstone player’s ban, Blizzard is in hot water with lawmakers (www.theverge.com)

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NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018 (9to5mac.com)

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0

'Not One Drop of Blood': Cattle Mysteriously Mutilated in Oregon (www.npr.org)

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OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 (summer 2020 release) (wiki.mozilla.org)

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82

“Was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I've had to date.” (twitter.com)

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5

Open Source Alternative for Zapier (n8n.io)

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90

California Cities and towns without electricity for 5-7 days (twitter.com)

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78

3blue1brown – Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (youtu.be)

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34

What the Formula? Managing State on Android (tech.instacart.com)

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85

U.S. Adds Chinese Firms to Blacklist, Citing Repression of Muslim Minorities (www.wsj.com)

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PG&E electricity shutoff confirmed for nearly 800k Northern CA customers (www.sacbee.com)

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Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion of Chinese Politics (deadspin.com)

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0

A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5 (www.wired.com)

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Pytest for Data Scientists (statestitle.com)

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85

WeWork Plans to Shed One-Third of Technology Employees (www.theinformation.com)

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58

Ask HN: Is Anyone Using Oracle Linux? (item?id=21197954)

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Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)

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0

Robinhood: Cash Management (blog.robinhood.com)

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0

Researchers completely made up claim about men’s drinking before conception (arstechnica.com)

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I wrote a command-line Ruby program to manage EC2 instances for me (www.codewithjason.com)

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68

Show HN: A practical guitar sight-reading trainer (dpapavas.github.io)

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0

Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras (arstechnica.com)

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0

Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First (www.nytimes.com)

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Houston Rockets fan arrested in China after threatening to burn national flag (www.cnn.com)

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A 6-Step Meeting Guide to Bring Focus to Your Team Check-Ins (spin.atomicobject.com)

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0

Most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of minorities (www.pewresearch.org)

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0

Autumn issue of 2600 now available for download (www.2600.com)

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How I Overcame Impostor Syndrome (www.nature.com)

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Apple’s macOS Catalina update is a problem for DJs who relied on iTunes (www.theverge.com)

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69

Heat waves could increase substantially in size by mid-century, says new study (phys.org)

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90

China's hard power and hurt feelings – Nikkei Asian Review (asia.nikkei.com)

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0

Ask HN: How to get a job after a failed startup? (item?id=21199202)

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US whistleblower dropped from speaking at Melbourne cybersecurity conference (www.abc.net.au)

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84

BentoML: A platform for serving and deploying machine learning models (github.com)

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83

California has banned political deepfakes during election season (www.theverge.com)

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0

Ask HN: Hiring managers, describe the best developer portfolio / personal site (item?id=21191906)

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0

What's an SQL query you've written that was hard and/or fun to write? (twitter.com)

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0

Live Demos of Artificial Intelligence (jay.kanakiya.in)

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0

4-Kilometer Planet-Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth in 2020 (www.ibtimes.com)

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Duolingo: Saving Endangered Languages (edition.cnn.com)

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Andy Rubin shows off new Essential phone with a unique design (twitter.com)

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Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to 3 scientists (phys.org)

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0

Web Based Docker Management System (github.com)

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Twitter transgression proves why its flawed 2FA system is such a privacy trap (arstechnica.com)

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