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uBlock Origin Update Rejected from the Chrome Web Store (github.com)

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Rogue Chromium dev lead ignores W3C 'autocomplete' spec; frustrates Internet (bugs.chromium.org)

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Bullshit.js (mourner.github.io)

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Ask HN: What do you self-host? (item?id=21235957)

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What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple (blog.astropad.com)

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How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs (linuxreviews.org)

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A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than 100 Published Studies (www.vice.com)

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Disk Prices – Comparison of All Hard Drives and SSDs on Amazon (diskprices.com)

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Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit? (item?id=21235776)

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Original Prusa MINI is here: Smart and compact 3D printer for everyone (blog.prusaprinters.org)

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My Favorite Rust Function (blog.jabid.in)

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The Money Behind the Climate Denial Movement (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you turn off notifications (www.reddit.com)

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The end of uBlock origin for Google chrome (www.ghacks.net)

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Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina (thetapedrive.com)

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Japan ninja student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink (www.bbc.com)

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Canada to Make Public More Clinical Trial Data (www.npr.org)

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Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little (howonlee.github.io)

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Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed (blogs.sciencemag.org)

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‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room (www.nytimes.com)

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Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 (www.wired.com)

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OWASP list is the closest we come to product security commandments (whitessource.com)

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Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories (blog.7mind.io)

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String Diagrams for Linear Algebra (graphicallinearalgebra.net)

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Kim Peek (en.wikipedia.org)

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From rags to Richer: A business success story built on treating people well (www.economist.com)

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Interpreting Go (notes.eatonphil.com)

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Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City (www.bbc.com)

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Massacre (www.cnd.org)

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Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production (heterodoxacademy.org)

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Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications (engineering.fb.com)

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Typhoon Lands in Japan (Windy -storm Tracking Platform) (www.windy.com)

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Notice of Retraction due to a programming error (jamanetwork.com)

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Show HN: A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News (https://newsphere.org)

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The Best of Goethe’s Aphorisms (fs.blog)

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Relativistic Quantum Chemistry (en.wikipedia.org)

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You Can Disagree Better (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known “Mac Native” apps? (item?id=21232556)

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Show HN: Monolinux – A tiny embedded Linux distro (github.com)

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Heavier Than Air (1930) (www.newyorker.com)

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History Is Written by the Losers (2016) (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

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A Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Designing File Formats (2005) (www.fadden.com)

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Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? (item?id=21236888)

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The Profitability Challenge for Challenger Banks (fincog.nl)

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BMW's Electric Strategy Makes No Sense (jalopnik.com)

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Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server, Releases All Their Decryption Keys (www.zdnet.com)

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Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers (lwn.net)

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KDE Plasma Mobile weekly update: part 2 (www.plasma-mobile.org)

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SF to Establish Office of Emerging Technology (www.sfexaminer.com)

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GNU Binutils 2.33.1 Released (sourceware.org)

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Ask HN: How do you move up in professional status as a remote worker? (item?id=21235641)

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Show HN: Nexrender – Data-Driven Render Automation for After Effects (github.com)

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Airline algorithms may be keeping you from sitting together (www.cbc.ca)

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What is soundness in static analysis? (2017) (www.pl-enthusiast.net)

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Previously rejected uBlock Origin Has Been Approved for the Chrome Web Store (old.reddit.com)

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Jack Ma Says 12-Hour Work Week Could Be the Norm (www.bloomberg.com)

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Secret Court: FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment (www.eff.org)

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Official StackOverflow FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of Conduct Changes (meta.stackexchange.com)

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500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Da Vinci's Bridge Design Works (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Show HN: ProfitHunt – a curated list of profitable online projects (www.profithunt.co)

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Moving Away from HDF5 (2016) (cyrille.rossant.net)

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Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dies at 85 (www.cbc.ca)

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Major Rights Org: Blizzard Doesn't Respect the Human Rights of Its Customers (www.vice.com)

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Warren runs ‘fake’ FB ad attacking Zuckerberg over inaction on misinformation (www.independent.co.uk)

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The most important design guideline (2014) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018) (cityobservatory.org)

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Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows (www.theverge.com)

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The Internet Archive's Whole Earth Collection (archive.org)

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Relearning to Type (gryphon.dev)

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How Times Reporters Proved Russia Bombed Syrian Hospitals (www.nytimes.com)

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Acrostic (en.wikipedia.org)

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What If Algorithms Could Be Fair? (humanreadablemag.com)

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Huh, Bill Gates sure hung out with Jeffrey Epstein a lot more than he admitted (gizmodo.com)

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Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser (github.com)

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Why are these L.A. people sleeping in pods stacked on top of each other? (www.latimes.com)

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The Redshift Hate Logs (epiphany.pub)

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Elizabeth Warren Trolls Facebook with 'False' Zuckerberg Ad (www.theguardian.com)

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Chicken of the Woods: This mushroom tastes just like chicken (www.atlasobscura.com)

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We build a lithium-ion car battery (www.autocar.co.uk)

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Hong Kong Has Weaponized the City’s Subway Against Protesters (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Siraj Raval found plagiarizing “neural qubit” paper (twitter.com)

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Propositions Are Not Types (2018) (medium.com)

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AWS Transfer for SFTP Now Supports Logical Directories for Amazon S3 (aws.amazon.com)

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CEO of world’s largest e-sports firm ESL warns staff not to discuss HK protests (www.hongkongfp.com)

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Take the Dora DevOps Quick Check (www.devops-research.com)

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Why Learn Vim in 2019? (www.vimfromscratch.com)

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New Insights into Self-Insight: More May Not Be Better (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment (www.pnas.org)

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We can mention the war. Should we now talk about Britain’s darker history? (www.theguardian.com)

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History threatened as Turkey prepares to flood ancient city (www.aljazeera.com)

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Replying to Domain Abuse Mail (danrl.com)

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A “dirty” thunderstorm erupts in Chile (imgur.com)

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Command Line Heroes: Heroes in a Bash Shell (www.redhat.com)

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Everyone’s AirPods will die. We’ve got the trick to replacing them (www.seattletimes.com)

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Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon (German) folk dance (www.youtube.com)

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Typhoon Hagibis Live (www3.nhk.or.jp)

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It’s Time to Delete Live Video (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Has your HN karma score helped you in any way? (item?id=21237986)

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Python Snippets You Should Learn Today (medium.com)

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Why You Shouldn't Use Facebook (kevq.uk)

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Harvard's policies do not discriminate against Asian Americans – Federal Judge (www.insidehighered.com)

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FaceForensics++: Learning to Detect Manipulated Facial Images (github.com)

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Barred from Owning Land, Rural Chinese Miss Spoils of Country’s Success (www.nytimes.com)

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VC4 and V3D OpenGL Drivers for Raspberry Pi: An Update (www.raspberrypi.org)

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She began to talk – then mysteriously fell silent. Later her parents learned why (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ecological disaster taking toll on scientists’ mental health (www.independent.co.uk)

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I know my wife is safe and I have “bad” tech companies to thank for that (medium.com)

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Reproduction revolution: how our skin cells might be turned into sperm and eggs (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Public info on datacenter management systems? (item?id=21237110)

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Vulnerability in sodiumoxide: generichash::Digest::eq always returns true (www.reddit.com)

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