hackerNews

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Give Firefox a Chance for a Faster, Calmer and Distraction-Free Internet (marko.fyi)

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Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 Which Kills Adblockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Chicago book returns surge 240% after city eliminates fines (abc7chicago.com)

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Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings (jalopnik.com)

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Hospitals are a weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity (www.axios.com)

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Ableton Connection Kit (www.ableton.com)

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California’s Criminal Cops (www.mercurynews.com)

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Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe (www.cs.uni.edu)

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Ants trapped for years in an old bunker (jhr.pensoft.net)

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Failing 15% of the time is the best way to learn (www.independent.co.uk)

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Naïve Bayes for Machine Learning – From Zero to Hero (blog.floydhub.com)

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All Magic Leap Patents Have Been Assigned to J.P. Chase Morgan as Collateral (www.kguttag.com)

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When His SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated, This Pilot Free Fell from Space (www.chuckyeager.org)

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6

Nostalgia for Minecraft (reallifemag.com)

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Steam for Linux client adds support for Linux namespaces (steamcommunity.com)

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Paged.js: Paginating content (and making books) in browser (www.pagedmedia.org)

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3

The Transit of Mercury Last chance to see this rare event from U.S. till 2049 (solarsystem.nasa.gov)

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Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust (gankra.github.io)

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The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism (www.wsj.com)

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Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese (legendsoflocalization.com)

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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Bash-lib: Library for bash utility methods and tools (github.com)

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Taking too much slack out of the rubber band (rachelbythebay.com)

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Gprof, Valgrind and gperftools – an evaluation of some tools (gernotklingler.com)

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When Britain and France Almost Merged into One Country (2017) (www.theatlantic.com)

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Amazon’s plan for Alexa (www.technologyreview.com)

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My Favorite Programming Problem to Teach: Digit Length (jstrieb.github.io)

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Unix for Poets [pdf] (www.cs.upc.edu)

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The post-exponential era of AI and Moore’s Law (techcrunch.com)

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Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Undermined Linux (techrights.org)

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AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs (www.zdnet.com)

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The NASA women who inspired 'Hidden Figures' will get Congressional gold medals (edition.cnn.com)

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Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions (jacobobryant.com)

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404 Page Not Found (thebaffler.com)

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Europe’s Galileo satellites going dark (www.theregister.co.uk)

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As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots (www.latimes.com)

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SimplyThick: A Tragedy No One Saw Coming (2013) (www.stlmag.com)

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Dynamically Adjustable Key-Value Store by Combining LSM and COW B+ Tree [pdf] (greensky00.github.io)

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Amazon’s roadmap for Alexa is scarier than anything Facebook or Twitter is doing (thenextweb.com)

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We were supposed to be living in pod houses (theoutline.com)

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Ontario police warn of SIM swapping fraud (www.cbc.ca)

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It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist (aeon.co)

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ID editor: It is time for us to end this abusive relationship (www.openstreetmap.org)

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Keep your source code SIMPLE (medium.com)

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Tesla is using OpenStreetMap as a source for parking lots data (teslamotorsclub.com)

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Maryland company files with FDA drug that cures AIDS (www.nbc4i.com)

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Is it time to look at monetisation as a new exclusive right of the author? (www.technollama.co.uk)

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Unlike Babies, the Best Managers Come with Instructions – Torch (torch.io)

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Crossing the 1 tb/s throughput threshold for object storage with NVMe drives (blog.min.io)

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Human heart cells beat differently in microgravity (www.cell.com)

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My Year of Concussions (www.newyorker.com)

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A Japanese Ghost Town in a Canadian Forest (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Revving Up For Edge Computing (semiengineering.com)

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The fusion energy dream is inching toward planet-saving reality (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013) (sivers.org)

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Apple Products and Planned Obsolescence (www.reddit.com)

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Expectations vs. Reality at Work (medium.com)

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YouTube can now terminate accounts that are “no longer commercially viable” (twitter.com)

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We Should Let a Lottery Decide Our Government (thewalrus.ca)

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Ask HN: What is the simplest and most flexible way to build a CRUD app in 2019? (item?id=21498216)

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Mechanically transformative electronics, sensors, and implantable devices (advances.sciencemag.org)

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17th century warships linked to Sweden's historic Vasa found (www.theguardian.com)

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For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough (www.nytimes.com)

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Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part IV (ithare.com)

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Show HN: Web components to create OS-like web apps (github.com)

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‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters (www.nytimes.com)

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‘Go Back to California’: Wave of Newcomers Fuels Backlash in Boise (www.latimes.com)

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The transit of Mercury starts at 7:35 am ET tomorrow and will last for 5.5 hours (www.nytimes.com)

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Emil Du Bois-Reymond: The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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High-Ranking Dog Provides Key Training for Military's Medical Students (www.npr.org)

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BBC scheduled live stream of US impeachment hearings (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How to Keep a Journal in Plain Text (plaintextproject.online)

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California’s Criminal Cops (www.mercurynews.com)

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Confluence is broken. Here's how I plan to fix it (medium.com)

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AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed (www.vice.com)

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Bpkg: Lightweight Bash Package Manager (www.bpkg.sh)

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Future of Social – The Rise of Social Niches (blog.hike.in)

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Bundling and Unbundling (reallifemag.com)

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CommanderSong: Practical Adversarial Voice Recognition (2018) (arxiv.org)

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How to Be a Better Friend (www.nytimes.com)

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From Durable to Perishable – the path to sustainable revenues (medium.com)

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An old-school shell hack on a line printer (drewdevault.com)

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iOS 13 often reloads background apps, loosing unsaved data (www.zdnet.com)

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Rape victim rejects judge’s offer: $150K for her, reduced sentence for attacker (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating (www.netmeister.org)

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This. Isn’t. Sparta (acoup.blog)

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Exotic Pets, Wild Blood, and the Search for Human-Animal Connection (lithub.com)

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Disney’s Ambitious Streaming Service Is Here. And Cable Feels the Force (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: A new game for the original Neo Geo (www.kickstarter.com)

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New YouTube TOS says that it can terminate anyone “not commercially viable” (www.reddit.com)

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Show HN: Hacker News in Audio for Android (play.google.com)

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I lived with depression for decades until my Asperger's diagnosis explained it (www.theguardian.com)

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Writing custom and useful go/analysis linter for Go (disaev.me)

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African AI Experts Get Excluded from a Conference–Again (www.wired.com)

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Ubiquiti: New Firmware 4.0.69 Makes Phone Home Opt-In by Default (item?id=21498783)

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Show HN: OpenBeans, an Open-Source IDE Distribution. Java, PHP, JavaScript (github.com)

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Apple credit cards allegedly giving men 10x the credit limit of women (www.bbc.com)

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‘I’m gonna lose everything’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Indiana joins Idaho in claiming DHS tried to hack their election systems (www.computerworld.com)

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Why are there so many Paxos variants and derivatives and what should you use? (imgur.com)

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Agile is great – Scrum is OK-ish (medium.com)

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The Problem with ‘Good’ Taste (www.theatlantic.com)

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Mister Rogers’s Enduring Wisdom (www.theatlantic.com)