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WireGuard removed from Google Play store due to donation link (lists.zx2c4.com)

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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work (twitter.com)

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Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database (aws.amazon.com)

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Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home (www.bbc.com)

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Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication (www.clearerthinking.org)

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A List of Meetup.com Alternatives (phacks.dev)

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OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites (micahflee.com)

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Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky (fair.org)

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Asynchronous communication: The real reason remote workers are more productive (doist.com)

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California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am (qz.com)

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Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event as It Tries to Contain Backlash (www.bloomberg.com)

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Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Firefox Privacy – The Complete How-To Guide (restoreprivacy.com)

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Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules (techcrunch.com)

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DuckDuckGo Search Improvements (spreadprivacy.com)

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Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) (www.vice.com)

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Ionic React (ionicframework.com)

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My Vision of D’s Future (dlang.org)

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Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement (www.bbc.com)

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Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously (www.sfchronicle.com)

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How the privacy friendly Simple Analytics hit their $30k ARR milestone (blog.simpleanalytics.com)

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Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications (www.wsj.com)

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Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Tesla's Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report (www.tomshardware.com)

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Why Switzerland is better than Silicon Valley for Software Developers (swissdevjobs.ch)

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Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3 (lists.debian.org)

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Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up (www.techdirt.com)

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Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes (itnext.io)

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Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20% (www.nytimes.com)

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Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy as Another 100 Stores Will Soon Close (www.wsj.com)

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Solving the Rubik’s cube with a human-like robot hand (openai.com)

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5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach (5g.systemsapproach.org)

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Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions (news.codecademy.com)

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You’re in a Police Lineup. Face-recognition technology is the new norm (www.nytimes.com)

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Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots at the Top (www.huffingtonpost.ca)

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A History of Pizza (www.historytoday.com)

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DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH (www.netmeister.org)

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Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell (chrispenner.ca)

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Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport (arrow.apache.org)

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YouTube Regrets (foundation.mozilla.org)

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Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller (blog.oxplot.com)

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Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem (https://tspvis.com)

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The Acid Farmers (mikejay.net)

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Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times (lemire.me)

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OpenVMS: state of the x86 port (vmssoftware.com)

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What the Hell Was Modernism? (www.vulture.com)

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Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere (assist.app)

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Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue (beamjobs.com)

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Google Announces Nest WiFi (blog.google)

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Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator (github.com)

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Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans (www.theguardian.com)

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$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home (www.wsj.com)

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Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball (https://www.ploopy.co)

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Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services (www.polygon.com)

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ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria (www.reddit.com)

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CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root (sensorstechforum.com)

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Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (cosmosmagazine.com)

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IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis (www.axios.com)

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The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway (jalopnik.com)

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“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it.” A study of (blog.acolyer.org)

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Learning to Simulate (towardsdatascience.com)

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Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf] (www.holybooks.com)

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Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen (www.brendangregg.com)

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Google Announces Pixel 4 (store.google.com)

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Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make all data more useful (www.ditabase.io)

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Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan Divide (www.politico.com)

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Getting started with regular expressions: An example (www.redhat.com)

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Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife (jamanetwork.com)

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How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents (www.washingtonpost.com)

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I hate Xlib (www.remlab.net)

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What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers (insights.dice.com)

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Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time, even when offline (techcrunch.com)

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Mind the Secret Bunker (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Slack Workflow Builder (slackhq.com)

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Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down (www.nih.gov)

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Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-angstrom resolution (www.nature.com)

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Voyage Around My Cell (www.theparisreview.org)

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The Structure of DNA (www.nature.com)

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Learning to Simulate (towardsdatascience.com)

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CBP Agent Rams Vehicle into Videographer (www.roadblockrevelations.org)

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Analysis of Solitaire (Cipher) (arxiv.org)

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And 'Lo!': How the internet was born (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Orchids: An Ugly History of Beautiful Things (longreads.com)

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A History of Chop Suey (www.historytoday.com)

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Britains ancient yews – mystical, magnificent, and unprotected (www.theguardian.com)

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Soviet Space Dogs (en.wikipedia.org)

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We bet you $10K that we will outperform your pricing strategy (modernpricing.com)

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Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty (www.wsj.com)

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What is causing the rise of Remote Work? (www.friday.app)

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Exceptionally Gifted Children: Long-term effects of grade-skipping (www.davidsongifted.org)

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Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die (www.nytimes.com)

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30 years after communism, eastern Europe divided on democracy's impact (www.theguardian.com)

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Why Switzerland? (2007) (www.fourmilab.ch)

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The Triumphs and Tribulations of Towboats on the Mississippi River (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Chipotle Will Offer Free College Tuition to All Employees (fortune.com)

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Ask HN: What software do you use to manage contacts? (item?id=21266023)

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StackOverflow: Firing Mods and Forced GPL (meta.stackexchange.com)

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Y Combinator Video Call Canceled Last Minute (item?id=21259288)

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New OnionShare makes it easy for anyone to publish uncensorable websites (blog.torproject.org)

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Facebook employee says he was fired for speaking out about his colleague suicide (www.cnbc.com)

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One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots (www.citylab.com)

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Illinois red-light cameras have collected more than $1B from drivers since 2008 (www.illinoispolicy.org)

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Ubuntu's ZFS Trajectory Is Going from to Even More (www.phoronix.com)

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Google Kills Daydream VR (www.engadget.com)

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Ask HN: Where can I work as a software engineer to combat large global problems? (item?id=21262032)

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Roomba Maker Sues Upstart SharkNinja (www.bloomberg.com)

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Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house (www.amazon.com)

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Hacking 20 high-profile dev accounts could compromise half of the NPM ecosystem (www.zdnet.com)

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Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system (arstechnica.com)

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To change your life, learn to write (medium.com)

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Tau is easier than Pi (2014) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Apple Releases iOS 13.1.3 (www.macrumors.com)

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Open Source Is Broken (dev.to)

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Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Episode 6 – Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution (kaue.me)

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Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)

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How to Change a Mind (forge.medium.com)

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‘Abominable’ pulled from Vietnamese cinemas because of a map of China (www.latimes.com)

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Blizzard cancels Overwatch's Switch launch event (twitter.com)

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WeWork says it found cancer-causing chemical in its phone booths (www.reuters.com)

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Reducers Are Fuzzers (blog.regehr.org)

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The Pixelbook Go Is a Smaller Cheaper Google-Made Chromebook (gizmodo.com)

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E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1 (1953) (www.theparisreview.org)

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Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher's drama (www.theguardian.com)

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SketchUp tweet include link to article with FreeCAD screenshot (twitter.com)

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Top Microsoft exec says online privacy has reached 'a crisis point' (edition.cnn.com)

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British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border (www.bbc.com)

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Leader of Largest US Organic Food Fraud Gets 10-Year Term (www.usnews.com)

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The gig economy’s deepest problem isn’t about tech at all (www.fastcompany.com)

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LeBron James’s Big Miss on China (www.wsj.com)

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Are you ready for America's data protection laws? (venturebeat.com)

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The link between stress and depression and simple words that could help (www.theguardian.com)

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How Stripe Builds APIs and Teams (www.youtube.com)

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Council rejects plans to build 5G masts (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Basecamp no longer requires Google for two-factor authentication (m.signalvnoise.com)

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Evergov: Find All Government Services in a Single Place (evergov.com)

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History of open-source C++ GUI libraries [Reddit] (www.reddit.com)

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Parsing in Python: Tools and Libraries (tomassetti.me)

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Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video (hackaday.com)

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War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars (www.theguardian.com)

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Ergotism (en.wikipedia.org)

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World Leaders on Twitter: Principles and Approach (blog.twitter.com)

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Better privacy and more flexibility with Nest devices (www.blog.google)

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Hong Kong, Visualized (relay.nationalgeographic.com)

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Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop? (item?id=21266933)

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Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram debut sends platform crashing (www.theguardian.com)

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Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions (nypost.com)

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Millennials are about to trigger a major ‘changeover point’ for the US economy (www.cnbc.com)

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Ask HN: Do you know any nice open-source projects in need of SE or design work? (item?id=21265062)

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CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring a Director of Operations (Venice Beach, CA) (item?id=21266301)

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