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My Favourite Git Commit (fatbusinessman.com)

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Show HN: Free for Developers (free-for.dev)

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TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (www.propublica.org)

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Earth and Sun (ciechanow.ski)

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The world's cheapest, simplest pen plotter (~$14, an hour to build) (brachiograph.readthedocs.io)

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Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook (digiday.com)

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Stupid Unix Tricks (sneak.berlin)

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Bazel 1.0 (opensource.googleblog.com)

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Web development platform built entirely in PostgreSQL (github.com)

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Zappos 2012 data breach settlement: attorneys $1,597,500 – plaintiffs $22,500 (www.zapposdatasettlement.com)

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New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics (www.sciencemag.org)

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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers (www.redhat.com)

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Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls (www.npr.org)

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OpenBSD 6.6 (www.openbsd.org)

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Unprecedented movement detected on CA earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor (www.stripes.com)

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I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) (blog.mycology.cornell.edu)

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Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator (gridsome.org)

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Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft (www.npr.org)

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Haskell in Production (felixmulder.com)

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The “Windmill” Problem on the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Writing Great Mystery Plots (www.vulture.com)

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We moved our servers to Iceland (blog.simpleanalytics.com)

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Which Way Do You Run? (a16z.com)

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The lines of code that changed everything (slate.com)

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The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks (www.c4isrnet.com)

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Show HN: Magic Sandbox – hands-on Kubernetes training on real infra (https://msb.com)

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Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years (www.bbc.com)

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Docker Compose reads your “.env” without opt-out (github.com)

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The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release (computerhistory.org)

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Machine learning in UK financial services (www.bankofengland.co.uk)

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Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations (erikbern.com)

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DoNoPay calls for you to get a human on the line quickly (techcrunch.com)

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Cortex: An open source alternative to SageMaker (github.com)

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Human Guinea Pigs About to Embark on World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight (www.bloomberg.com)

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J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Swift – New Diagnostic Architecture Overview (swift.org)

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Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack (akkartik.name)

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Show HN: Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager (unixism.net)

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Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too) (github.com)

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The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude Control (2017) (www.allaboutcircuits.com)

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LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed Operating System (legoos.io)

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NBA commissioner Silver says Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets GM (www.cbssports.com)

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Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience (techcrunch.com)

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Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs (www.electronicsweekly.com)

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The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Ask HN: What's your worst undefined C code story? (item?id=21285728)

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Europe continues to wrestle with the long arm of American law (www.european-views.com)

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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers (red.ht)

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Data as a Property Right (www.yang2020.com)

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Launch HN: Multis (YC S19): online business bank account for cryptocurrency (item?id=21280238)

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Czech Trail Marking System (2006) (blog.myczechrepublic.com)

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Knuth – Estimating the Efficiency of Backtrack Programs(1975) [pdf] (www.ams.org)

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I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator (meta.stackoverflow.com)

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How Randomness Can Arise from Determinism (www.quantamagazine.org)

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NYC Votes to Close Rikers Island (www.nytimes.com)

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Trees That Survived California Drought May Hold Clue to Climate Resilience (www.npr.org)

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An Unexpected Character Replacement (www.datafix.com.au)

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New bill ensures Jailtime for CEOs that lie (www.vice.com)

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Smart speaker system uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing (techxplore.com)

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“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud” (www.reddit.com)

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Senators propose near-total ban on worker noncompete agreements (arstechnica.com)

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Ubuntu 19.10 (ubuntu.com)

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Germany's cyber-security agency recommends Firefox as most secure browser (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Which online communities do you hang out most on? (item?id=21285127)

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Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter (maffulli.net)

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Why Fiber Is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G (www.eff.org)

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Researchers predict which content is to be raided by 4chan and offer solution (newest-websites.com)

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Loot Box Lottery (minnesotalawreview.org)

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The lies I told for insurance companies about 'Medicare for All' worked (www.nbcnews.com)

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Zuckerberg asserts Facebook stands for free expression (www.nytimes.com)

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Road planning with slime mould (2009) (arxiv.org)

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Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly back end (lists.freepascal.org)

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Pilotless Black Hawk Will Soon Take Flight (www.military.com)

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The Fallacy That Is Cryptocurrency (hackernoon.com)

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California Is in Big Trouble Again, After Averting a Collapse in the 2000s (www.bloomberg.com)

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Gitlab Makes a U-Turn (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Childhood Obesity Is Rising 'Shockingly Fast' Even in Poor Countries (www.npr.org)

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A Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions of Dollars from Unsuspecting Boomers (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Ask HN: Where do you find products at their early stage? (item?id=21289201)

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What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending (bostonreview.net)

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HBO Max Acquires U.S. Streaming Rights to Studio Ghibli Library (deadline.com)

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Show HN: Serverless Components – Provision Infra with Serverless Framework (github.com)

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UK phone number transfers between networks are handled through a Yahoo Group (twitter.com)

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Welcome to the Land (statesider.us)

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Tired light: a theory with the world's worst PR team (kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)

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US green economy’s growth dwarfs the fossil fuel industry’s (arstechnica.com)

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Laptop Survey from r/thinkpad and r/mac (imgur.com)

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Show HN: Code Collaboration Charts (www.networkperspective.io)

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Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Released (lists.ubuntu.com)

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Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi (arstechnica.com)

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Not even Airbnb can turn a profit (www.fastcompany.com)

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Electrical Brain Implants Enable Man to Control Prosthetic Limbs with ‘Thoughts’ (humanbioscience.org)

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The Life, Death and Resurrection of Computer Art Group Mistigris (paleotronic.com)

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NDK r21: our first Long Term Support release (android-developers.googleblog.com)

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Atlassian Acquires Code Barrel (www.atlassian.com)

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Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation (arxiv.org)

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Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes to Ban Face Recognition (www.eff.org)

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EU parliament quietly hoards visitors' wi-fi data (euobserver.com)

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Zuckerberg Warns China’s Censored Internet Could Still Win Out (www.bloomberg.com)

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Microsoft Wants to Censor Xbox Live Voice Chat in Real Time (futurism.com)

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Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking (advances.sciencemag.org)

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Andy Wingo: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile (lists.gnu.org)

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Dangerous Kubernetes Bugs Allow Authentication Bypass, DoS (threatpost.com)

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China’s Sneakerheads Chase 6,600% Returns Flipping Air Jordans (www.bloomberg.com)

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California finds widespread water contamination of 'forever chemicals' (www.msn.com)

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Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice (fs.blog)

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DIY Sleep Apnea Screening (medium.com)

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GetAwesomeness: A Directory of Lists (getawesomeness.herokuapp.com)

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Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan's Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5M (gizmodo.com)

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The US military is trying to read minds (www.technologyreview.com)

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Millions of Amazon Echos, Kindles Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Attack (www.tomsguide.com)

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What is the oldest continuously operating electronic computer, and where is it? (www.quora.com)

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Stackoverflow New CEO (www.joelonsoftware.com)

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Voyage Through the Hidden Physics of the Cosmic Web (arxiv.org)

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The Imperial Presidency, Secrecy, and the Intelligence Community (medium.com)

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Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Suspected fire on weather radar in Minnesota turns out to be 600k ducks (www.sctimes.com)

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Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

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Natural Bridge on the Moon (2010) (www.nasa.gov)

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Ford announces launch of largest electric vehicle charging network in the US (www.cnn.com)

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Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups (www.theverge.com)

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Recent Site Isolation Improvements (blog.chromium.org)

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CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth, Titus Winters “What Is C++” (www.youtube.com)

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On Recent Controversial Events (ebb.org)

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Advanced Coding Skills, Techniques, and Ideas (medium.com)

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Jido Maps (YC W18) is hiring Full Stack Developers (AR) [Bay/NY/Remote] (apply.workable.com)

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Elemeno Health (YC S16) Is Hiring a Lead Engineer in Oakland (angel.co)

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Pivot (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer – Consumer Fitness Hardware (jobs.lever.co)

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Vathys (YC W18) Is Hiring a Machine Learning Engineer (item?id=21288829)

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