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Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Any Fingerprint Unlocks Galaxy S10, Samsung Warns (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Google exec: Nest owners should warn guests that conversations are recorded (www.pulse.ng)

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FPGA Design for Software Engineers (www.walknsqualk.com)

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Rejected from YC (Again) (veed.io)

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After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty (www.rollcall.com)

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Yahoo Groups to remove all content December 14 (help.yahoo.com)

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Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit (www.npr.org)

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Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service (techcrunch.com)

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An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir (www.welcometothejungle.co)

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Make More Land (www.lesswrong.com)

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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb (simblob.blogspot.com)

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Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018) (nypost.com)

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How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? (www.space.com)

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Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy (www.nytimes.com)

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Books, an immutable double-entry accounting database service (developer.squareup.com)

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Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra (https://pipedream.com)

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The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)

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US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site (www.coindesk.com)

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What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? (www.bbc.com)

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Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb (simblob.blogspot.com)

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Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices (techcrunch.com)

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Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet (www.nasa.gov)

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Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City (reasonstobecheerful.world)

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Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

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Designing Accessible Color Systems (stripe.com)

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Paris zoo unveils the “blob”, an organism with no brain but 720 sexes (www.reuters.com)

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StackOverflow faces fresh backlash from community on its new policies (meta.stackoverflow.com)

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Google and Ambient Computing (stratechery.com)

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Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard talks about the problem with Amazon (www.fastcompany.com)

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AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study (www.forbes.com)

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Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% (www.bloomberg.com)

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UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system (www.theguardian.com)

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People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct (www.cnn.com)

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The Creators of Pokémon Go Mapped the World. Now They're Mapping You (kotaku.com)

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U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials (www.reuters.com)

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Guitar Machine (www.media.mit.edu)

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Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking (fs.blog)

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Apple IIa – ROM for the Apple IIe That Compiles Basic (2018) (www.teamten.com)

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My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming (nebusresearch.wordpress.com)

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HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image (heartbeat.fritz.ai)

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Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium (blogs.windows.com)

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ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? (www.vanityfair.com)

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Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they do (github.com)

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Docker containers in space (www.balena.io)

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Where you place your food in the fridge does matter (www.electrafixbc.ca)

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Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable (mosaicscience.com)

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College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply (www.washingtonpost.com)

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In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course–is it the right move? (arstechnica.com)

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AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible New Socket (www.tomshardware.com)

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No One Knows Why Humans Can Walk (lithub.com)

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Scientists pinpoint neural activity's role in human longevity (sciencebeta.com)

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Timing Technology (www.gwern.net)

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IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust (kottke.org)

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IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations (www.iau.org)

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The Myth of 10,000 hours (medium.com)

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The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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No-one knows the type of char + char (blog.knatten.org)

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Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes (www.bbc.com)

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European Commission President Juncker tweets that a Brexit deal has been done (twitter.com)

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A simple scheduler for running commands on multi-GPU workstations/servers (github.com)

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Stones and Apples (blog.mathspace.co)

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Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings (www.huygens-fokker.org)

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SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit (www.technologyreview.com)

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Analogue Pocket (www.analogue.co)

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When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Fastest ants in world found in northern Sahara, researchers say (www.theguardian.com)

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The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera (www.anandtech.com)

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Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor (www.charlespetzold.com)

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Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base (www.independent.co.uk)

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Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM) (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

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PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters (eu.lansingstatejournal.com)

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The pioneers of cultural anthropology who created “cultural relativism” (bostonreview.net)

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Computers Don't Argue (1965) (www.atariarchives.org)

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The Big Die-Up (2017) (www.americancowboy.com)

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Tutorial: How to Scrape Amazon Using Python Scrapy (blog.datahut.co)

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Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments (www.latimes.com)

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I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system, and you should too (www.call-with-current-continuation.org)

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Electric-Car Owners Hard Hit by California Power Shutdown (news.yahoo.com)

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Microsoft gives Satya Nadella a 66% raise, citing 'strategic leadership' (www.cnbc.com)

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Training Neural Nets: A Hacker’s Perspective (blog.floydhub.com)

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Kubernetes: K8s vs. Rancher K3s (www.civo.com)

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Elon Musk testifies he’s financially illiquid, court filing says (www.latimes.com)

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More on Ancient Scripts and the History of Writing (kottke.org)

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The Myth That Capitalism Saved the World (eand.co)

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Show HN: Django REST – Typed Views (github.com)

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Show HN: Wikipedia articles in AR with React Native (takota.net)

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SoftBank Plans $5B Rescue Financing for WeWork (www.bloomberg.com)

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Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 – 2019 [video] (www.youtube.com)

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The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: GSuite / Office365 Alternatives for Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits (item?id=21273813)

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Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary (www.engadget.com)

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Ask HN: Recommended reading for building a chatbot? (item?id=21274268)

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Infrastructure as Code, Not Infrastructure as Files (hackernoon.com)

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Len Deighton’s Bomber, the first book ever written on a word processor (2013) (slate.com)

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Maintainability Through Colocation (kentcdodds.com)

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Show HN: Strangers – A non-fiction book club focused on technology and society (strangers.club)

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Tesla's Risky Gamble and the Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries (contrarianedge.com)

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Show HN: Touchable augmented reality on your phone, 3 years in the making (https://portalble.cs.brown.edu)

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What did Monica do to violate the CoC? (meta.stackexchange.com)

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Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy (gizmodo.com)

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Court rules officer who ran and hid, while inmate raped a nurse, cannot be sued (reason.com)

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UK's controversial 'porn blocker' plan dropped (www.bbc.com)

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Children told lies by parents lie more as adults (www.sciencedaily.com)

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U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack (www.reuters.com)

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.NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Zuck says cloud computing is too expensive (www.techradar.com)

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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell (www.collaborativefund.com)

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Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home (hackaday.com)

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NASA unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing (www.bbc.com)

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'The West' is, in fact, the world's biggest gated community (bigthink.com)

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Texas Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $50M from Peter Thiel (fortune.com)

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Just Published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

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Busting, Sony’s Ghostbusters AR Display (and a Little Sprite History) (www.kguttag.com)

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Show HN: Jet, a CLI to Transform Between JSON, EDN and Transit Inspired by Jq (github.com)

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Marc Benioff says it’s time to break up Facebook (www.cnn.com)

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Amazon RDS on VMware Now Available (aws.amazon.com)

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Different OSes produced different results for Chemists using Python (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency (www.politico.com)

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The More Active Your Brain, the Shorter Your Lifespan May Be (time.com)

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Maduro unveils plan to fund Venezuela's economy in petro cryptocurrency (decrypt.co)

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Seized North Korean cargo ship sold to compensate parents of Otto Warmbier (www.navytimes.com)

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Gamifying the bug-tracking process: How an Atlassian team does it (www.atlassian.com)

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Show HN: Run Scripts in the “Today View” of macOS Notification Center (github.com)

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Mother’s attention may shape baby’s hormone system and temperament (www.newscientist.com)

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Ask HN: When do you think smartphones will become obsolete? (item?id=21279655)

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Fond.co (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Engineer in Portland (jobs.lever.co)

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