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What’s New in Python 3.8 (docs.python.org)

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Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster (tokio.rs)

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My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe (github.com)

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Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses (www.theregister.co.uk)

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It's official, YouTube is taking down educational hacking vids (www.reddit.com)

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Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments (techcrunch.com)

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I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS (blog.inkdrop.info)

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Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection (blog.jonlu.ca)

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AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project (aws.amazon.com)

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.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project (github.com)

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Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation (arstechnica.com)

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics (www.newscientist.com)

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The Unix Game (www.unixgame.io)

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Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says (www.zdnet.com)

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Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection (blog.jonlu.ca)

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What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health (www.washingtonpost.com)

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How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch (www.vox.com)

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Announcing Rustup 1.20.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

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James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Watt: A runtime for executing Rust procedural macros compiled as WebAssembly (github.com)

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Harold Bloom Has Died (www.nytimes.com)

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The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden (swedesinthestates.com)

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What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters (www.1843magazine.com)

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Ancient artefacts are melting out of Norwegian glaciers (gen.medium.com)

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Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test (news.mit.edu)

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Social Networks That Failed (gizmodo.com)

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C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Our Top Five C++ Questions (stackoverflow.blog)

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Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007) (en.wikibooks.org)

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Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players (www.espn.com)

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YC Fall Hackathon 2019 (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Goodyear Inflatoplane (en.wikipedia.org)

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Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's 1k ancient sites (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult (www.businessinsider.com)

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Peter Ratcliffe's Nobel Prize Winning Study Was Rejected by Journal (www.news18.com)

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The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot (www.bloomberg.com)

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Probabalistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (edinburghhacklab.com)

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A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love (www.bloomberg.com)

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Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions in sudo (www.sudo.ws)

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Most Functional Compiler (www.ioccc.org)

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Beneath the Replication Crisis (societyinmind.com)

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America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed (www.atlasobscura.com)

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New rules for contractors have unexpected consequences for strip clubs (www.sfexaminer.com)

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I created the same app with React and Redux. Here's the differences (medium.com)

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How BugHerd came back from the brink (www.smartcompany.com.au)

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Rapatronic Camera (en.wikipedia.org)

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On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta (meta.stackexchange.com)

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Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism (www.nytimes.com)

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Books to read before I die – Christopher Kimball (www.cooksillustrated.com)

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Why Renaissance Paintings Aren't as Green as They Used to Be (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Nobel Prize: Lithium Ion Battery Creators Led a Revolution (www.bloomberg.com)

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The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream (www.wired.co.uk)

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They Published the Perished (airmail.news)

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The End of Oz (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Meetup.com payment changes coming soon (www.meetup.com)

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Making Memories: Memorizing Phone Numbers (joeltagert.blogspot.com)

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Point to Point in the Datacenter with Andy Bechtolsheim (www.nextplatform.com)

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Subscription services for plants (www.wired.com)

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's private meetings with conservative pundits (www.politico.com)

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Show HN: macOS windows-switcher (Windows 10 style) (github.com)

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Differences Between Dating in Sweden vs. the States (swedesinthestates.com)

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Restoring the Salvator Mundi (airmail.news)

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JavaScript Image Compress Using HTML5 Canvas and File API Before Upload (www.phplift.net)

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Coinexchange.io is closing down on 01Dec2019 (www.coinexchange.io)

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The largest acquisitions by Big Tech companies (nuadox.com)

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Ask HN: People are looking for a meetup.com replacement – what are the options? (item?id=21253620)

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Kparc/kcc: k crash course (github.com)

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Show HN: A Socialist Social Network (www.karma.fm)

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Scientific knowledge is drowning in a flood of research (massivesci.com)

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Interactive Canvas in Jupyter Notebook (github.com)

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Ask HN: How do big companies ensure the execs get the right info from below? (item?id=21251213)

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C for Everyone: Fundamentals (www.coursera.org)

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On Lying (ndpr.nd.edu)

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Learn How to Raise a Seed Round (voxsnap.com)

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Cool New Features in Python 3.8 (realpython.com)

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Without encryption, we will lose all privacy – Edward Snowden (www.theguardian.com)

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I got serious about delegating (www.ronenagranat.com)

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US Senators Sent Letters to Executives of Stripe, Mastercard, Visa – Libra (twitter.com)

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Show HN: My HN – filter recent top Hacker News by your favorite topics (hn.okphp.com)

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James Gosling on how Richard Stallman stole his Emacs source code (www.reddit.com)

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Bypass McAfee with McAfee (dmaasland.github.io)

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Learning (some) Rust in (almost) 8 hours (medium.com)

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Hobbyists can plant hidden spy chips on motherboards for $200 (www.techspot.com)

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Riot Games warn League Of Legends pros away from political issues (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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Are pets really good for us? (www.theguardian.com)

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Economists’ models of inflation are letting them down (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Boomla Website OS – A platform to simplify building, running websites (boomla.com)

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Is Apple Sending Data from 1B Phones to China? (www.forbes.com)

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Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries (phys.org)

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FreeCodeCamp is building an OSS alternative to Meetup after Meetup's new pricing (twitter.com)

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The Hunt for Asia's El Chapo (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: ExBERT – A Visual Tool to Explore Representations in Transformer Models (exbert.net)

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Show HN: Machine Learning Development on Apple Platforms (nicholas-arner.squarespace.com)

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Warning: Apple code deleted all my reminders – I am not alone (www.lifehacker.com.au)

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WeWork Prefers JPMorgan Financing Lifeline to Rescue by SoftBank (www.bloomberg.com)

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Weekend long read suggestions 2019/40 (www.bobek.cz)

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UK Renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time (twitter.com)

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Decidim – Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations (omastadi.hel.fi)

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Zcash’s Halo Breakthrough Is a Big Deal – Not Just for Cryptocurrencies (www.coindesk.com)

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Show HN: Library of 537 wireframe blocks for Sketch, Figma (source.forpeople.studio)

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Show HN: MintBox – a service to repackage goods before sending to end buyers (http://www.getmintbox.com)

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Perl 6 is now Raku. Officially (slashdot.org)

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Information overload in group communication (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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I watched over 100 Tesla Smart Summon videos–here’s what I learned (arstechnica.com)

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Airbnb Home Screen UI Clone with React Native #4: Animate Top Tag Section (kriss.io)

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Rumor: Intel to Skip 10nm for Desktop CPUs, Will Offer 7nm Desktop CPUs in 2022 (wccftech.com)

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ABC News Broadcasts Fake Syria Bombing Video That's from KY Military Show (gizmodo.com)

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WeWork set to sack 2k staff as anger towards founder Adam Neumann grows (www.theguardian.com)

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Chartio Is Hiring an Engineering Manager in SF (jobs.lever.co)

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