Ken Thompson's Unix Password (leahneukirchen.org)

Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store (twitter.com)

Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights (twitter.com)

Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium-Ion Battery Innovators (www.quantamagazine.org)

Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry (twitter.com)

China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app (techcrunch.com)

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Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China (reddit.com)

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Economy Is Growing, but Americans Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer and Energy (reason.com)

Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost (www.nytimes.com)

String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite (freedom.press)

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Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer (davidwalsh.name)

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Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood (www.npr.org)

Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account (twitter.com)

The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI (medium.com)

FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds (arstechnica.com)

Small C Compilers (bootstrapping.miraheze.org)

The Anti-Solar Panel – A Device That Generates Electricity from Darkness (www.intelligentliving.co)

Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way” (techcrunch.com)

Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm (blogg.bekk.no)

Designing a COM Library for Rust (msrc-blog.microsoft.com)

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The Isle of Man is not in the UK (www.bbc.com)

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NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet (www.wsj.com)

IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency (www.irs.gov)

China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist (www.bloomberg.com)

GitHub and US Government Developers (github.blog)

NixOS 19.09 (nixos.org)

No Radical Changes in GNU Project (lists.gnu.org)

VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada and SPARK (www.windriver.com)

Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens (www.bloomberg.com)

Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers (stackoverflow.blog)

The Passion Economy and the Future of Work (a16z.com)

The myth of inevitable technological progress (www.vox.com)

Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (2016) (www.sciencealert.com)

PG&E Outage Darkens Northern California Amid Wildfire Threat (www.nytimes.com)

Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (www.sciencemag.org)

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The PDP-7 Where Unix Began (bsdimp.blogspot.com)

Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker (jdlm.info)

Apple is not your friend (twitter.com)

China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech (onezero.medium.com)

MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on the Launch of Octopus Cloud 1.0 (octopus.com)

Computational survivalist (www.johndcook.com)

Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots (ai.googleblog.com)

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Coherent OS (en.wikipedia.org)

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A Solar Power Plant designed to deliver 100% of the electricity after sunset (pv-magazine-usa.com)

Show HN: Interviews with open source maintainers and developers (https://sourcesort.com)

Cameras Could Replace Car Mirrors (www.bloomberg.com)

Salesforce: We Ditched Python for Google's Go Language in Einstein Analytics (www.zdnet.com)

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Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage (www.bloomberg.com)

Kids playground built from discarded wind turbine parts (2017) (lifeandsoulmagazine.com)

Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available (aws.amazon.com)

Survey: Average American Hasn’t Made a New Friend – In 5 Years (www.studyfinds.org)

Nietzsche’s Eternal Return (www.newyorker.com)

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The Making of the American Gulag (bostonreview.net)

Sixers fans say they were ejected from preseason game for 'Free Hong Kong' signs (ftw.usatoday.com)

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The KeY Project (www.key-project.org)

Alibaba to Stop Sales of E-Cigarettes to U.S. Buyers (www.wsj.com)

Abandoning a Cat – By Haruki Murakami (www.newyorker.com)

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Apple Removes Quartz News App from Chinese App Store (twitter.com)

China is destroying Uigher burial grounds (www.theguardian.com)

2 in 5 Canadians quit their jobs because of bad bosses (twitter.com)

Defining Types in Shen (bluishcoder.co.nz)

WxErlang: Getting_started [pdf] (arifishaq.files.wordpress.com)

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Formal Abstracts – express mathematical publications in a computer-readable form (formalabstracts.github.io)

New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute (news.mit.edu)

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Gravity Model of Trade (en.wikipedia.org)

Twitter: No, really, we're sorry we sold your security info for lots od cash (www.theregister.co.uk)

Unrealised Potential (www.brettmacfarlane.com)

What Saul Bellow Saw (mosaicmagazine.com)

Turkey starts attacking syrian kurds SDF after US forces left (www.aljazeera.com)

Open letter to all developers with blogs (item?id=21205132)

Conquer Your Dotfiles with VCSH and Mr (germano.dev)

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Ripper: Story of the Egregiously Bad Videogame (www.wired.com)

Apple removes ‘Quartz’ news app from App Store at request of the government (9to5mac.com)

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Revolution of Our Times: HK Protest Role-Playing Game Suspended from Google Play (www.hongkongfp.com)

Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Economy (www.bloomberg.com)

Visual Studio Code – September 2019 (version 1.39) update (code.visualstudio.com)

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Complexity Is Bad (2017) (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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React – A quick cheatsheet for beginners, with examples (medium.com)

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Ex-Nasdaq CEO warns: Recent IPOs unclear profit path reminds him of tech bubble (www.cnbc.com)

The €963 Book Launch That Made Me Wish to Get Back to My Secured Job (christoph-rumpel.com)

FEMA Bought 44,000 Flood-Prone Homes. They May Have to Buy Millions More (www.bloomberg.com)

China Loses a Tech Generation as the Big Payoff Promise Fades (www.bloomberg.com)

Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use (css-tricks.com)

Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out (forums.theregister.co.uk)

China's One China Policy (en.wikipedia.org)

Eight O'Clock Is Relative (www.jefftk.com)

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Apple Removes App That Tracked Hong Kong Police (www.nytimes.com)

Hayao Miyazaki's Airships [video] (www.youtube.com)

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