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Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule' (blog.nuclino.com)

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When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques (pythonspeed.com)

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Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video] (vimeo.com)

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Copyright Troll May Have Set an Expensive Precedent for Copyright Trolls (www.techdirt.com)

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How Not to Die (www.paulgraham.com)

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Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

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Google's ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions (www.wsj.com)

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Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban (secretgeek.github.io)

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My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition (jacobian.org)

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The Next 50 Years of Databases (www.cs.cmu.edu)

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Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software (poddery.com)

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Renaissance Technologies (en.wikipedia.org)

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Founder's Guide to Building a Developer Tools Business (manifold.co)

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Debian reconsiders init-system diversity (lwn.net)

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Moving towards a faster web (blog.chromium.org)

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In Praise of Idleness (1932) (harpers.org)

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Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages (status.cloud.google.com)

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Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft (rolandasb.github.io)

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The future of my games on Apple (post-Catalina) + ramifications for indie games (www.nathalielawhead.com)

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Facebook iOS app has camera active during use (twitter.com)

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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine (www.cockroachlabs.com)

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SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records (www.cnbc.com)

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The Maturing of QUIC (www.fastly.com)

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David Lynch’s TV commercials (2017) (lwlies.com)

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Tokyo's 2D Cafe (soranews24.com)

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GNU Compiler Collection Internals [pdf] (gcc.gnu.org)

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How an Optimizing Compiler Works (www.lihaoyi.com)

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What It’s Really Like to Fight a War (www.nytimes.com)

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A collection of bad practices in HTML (https://www.htmhell.dev)

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Avoiding or for Better Query Performance (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)

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Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity? (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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How Ambient Chill Became the New Silence (www.topic.com)

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Sporth: A small stack-based audio programming language (paulbatchelor.github.io)

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Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, nature and climate – report (www.bbc.com)

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McKinsey Faces Criminal Inquiry over Bankruptcy Case Conduct (www.nytimes.com)

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Floating Point C vs. C++ (www.johndcook.com)

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Mysterious Laser Turret Appears on US Navy Destroyer USS Dewey (www.thedrive.com)

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V-Mail (en.wikipedia.org)

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YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google (item?id=21503851)

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AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race (venturebeat.com)

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

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Meditation reduced an opioid dose needed to ease chronic pain by 75% (www.npr.org)

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Lithium-Sulfur Battery Project Aims to Double the Range of Electric Airplanes (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The U.S. military, algorithmic warfare, and big tech (venturebeat.com)

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API end to end testing with Docker (fire.ci)

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The Long Tradition of Cartography (www.theguardian.com)

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From Surveillance Communism to Surveillance Capitalism and Beyond (www.forbes.com)

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U.S. Military Is Monitoring Groups Protesting at the Border (theintercept.com)

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Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses (www.theverge.com)

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Jellyfish GPU Rootkit (github.com)

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Traffic Vis: Traffic Theory Explained Visually (trafficvis.com)

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Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack (www.axios.com)

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IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Identified (www.bloomberg.com)

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Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits (www.theguardian.com)

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Facebook iOS app actively uses the camera behind your feed (mobile.twitter.com)

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A Quick Primer on Dig (mrkaran.dev)

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Volatile, a free key-value pair API (https://volatile.wtf)

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Vulnx – bot that detect vulnerabilities in multiple types of CMS (github.com)

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Facebook gave Tinder and other dating apps special access to user data (mashable.com)

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BBC Radio Programme about Terry Davis / TempleOS (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Backcountry.com Fires Trademark Attorneys (coloradosun.com)

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The Creepy Corridors of Video Games (www.eurogamer.net)

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Ask HN: Can we persist hide YC job postings from the same company? (item?id=21509418)

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Twitter wants feedback on its proposed deepfakes policy (arstechnica.com)

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Best Practices for ML Engineering (developers.google.com)

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Amazon Confirms Plans for Store Under New Grocery Brand (www.bloomberg.com)

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Damian Conway on multiple Raku ways to compute e (blogs.perl.org)

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I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike (www.nytimes.com)

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Checklist about Engineering Reliable Mobile Applications (appreliability.co)

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Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space (phys.org)

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Ubiquity hardware sends telemetry and it cannot be turned off (www.theregister.co.uk)

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A used 2015 Retina MacBook Pro might be the best MacBook you can buy today (www.cultofmac.com)

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The Drowned Lands of the Wallkill (www.bldgblog.com)

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Show HN: Bel language guide and source code with formatting (github.com)

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Announcing Async-Std 1.0 (async.rs)

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Apple’s credit card is being investigated for discriminating against women (www.theverge.com)

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Open vs. Closed Pipes – Flutes vs. Clarinets (2007) (newt.phys.unsw.edu.au)

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Keylogging Users via Slack Themes (fletchto99.dev)

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Amazon EC2 Issues in Frankfurt AZ (status.aws.amazon.com)

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Ask HN: Starting a Company on a Cofounder's Patent (item?id=21513073)

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New York City is a mall (ny.curbed.com)

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A mathematical analysis of Uniswap markets (arxiv.org)

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Google's networking stack – Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking (blog.acolyer.org)

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The Fake Backlash to Fake Meat (onezero.medium.com)

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Melting with Tenderness: Vladimir Nabokov on Apostrophes (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Let Me Tell You Why China Is Obsessed with America's Aircraft Carriers (nationalinterest.org)

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Facebook’s top news exec has own media outlet (popular.info)

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Doom creator John Romero on what's wrong with modern shooter games (www.theguardian.com)

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How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong (www.nytimes.com)

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The Digital Human – Terry A. Davis and Temple OS (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Respects Your Freedom Certification (ryf.fsf.org)

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Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome (www.theverge.com)

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My Little Optimization: The Compiler Is Magic (2018) (belkadan.com)

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Asperger syndrome among scientists (2003) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Show HN: Construct YAML from a Directory Tree (github.com)

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Show HN: Blog platform using Linux commands (outfloor.org)

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Airbnb rental turns out to be public housing apartment (www.fox5ny.com)

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Show HN: Tiny and utterly useless ReactJS clone (exercise in minimalism) (github.com)

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Web Almanac 2019: HTTP Archive's Annual Report (almanac.httparchive.org)

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Tesla starts selling China-made Model 3 with autopilot function (www.reuters.com)

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How to catch a cryptominer on your Kubernetes infra (blog.kubecost.com)

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Uber CEO Backtracks After Comparing Khashoggi’s Killing to an Accident (www.nytimes.com)

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DS-2CD7A2XYZ-JM/RX: Uyghur Detection Camera (web.archive.org)

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‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer (www.wsj.com)

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The Wild Ones (magazine.atavist.com)

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Patterns for Writing Simple Code (medium.com)

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As SpaceX Launches Starlink, Scientists See Threat to ‘Astronomy Itself’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Google has access to detailed health records on tens of millions of Americans (arstechnica.com)

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Sweden's 100 explosions this year: What's going on? (www.bbc.com)

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Show HN: Midas, Microcluster-Based Detector of Anomalies in Edge Streams (github.com)

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Ask HN: Are we really getting into the “GitFluencers” era? (item?id=21505827)

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First Wave at Omaha Beach (www.theatlantic.com)

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15 Years of AWS Blogging (aws.amazon.com)

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KubeCon, KubeKhan, PodCTL, Microsoft, GitOps, AWS, OpenTitan, Vitess, & More (devopsish.com)

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Dept of Ed CS Equity Grant Focused on All but Asian/White Boys from Cities/Burbs (slashdot.org)

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The Evolution of Firmware Fuzzing (www.isi.edu)

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Stateless Microservices in OpenFaaS (www.openfaas.com)

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The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Panasonic PV-1563 VCR (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Welcome to the Aerotropolis (www.ft.com)

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MoneyGram processes 10% of US-Mexico transactions via Ripple solution using XRP (www.theblockcrypto.com)

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Dnsmasq-Based DNS Blocking (artemix.org)

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SpaceX Just Launched 60 Starlink Satellites (www.space.com)

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Can I Use ____? (https://caniuse.com)

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Interview with David Hansson about Accused Sexism with Apple Credit Card (www.cnbc.com)

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Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving Pip (pyfound.blogspot.com)

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Massive progress in IntelliCode, powering your AI-pair-programmer. (twitter.com)

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Whether direct or indirect, parental alienation harms families (natsci.source.colostate.edu)

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London’s Royal Free Hospital Handed over Personal Health Data to Google (www.theguardian.com)

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How to succeed at the earliest stages of a business idea (medium.com)

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Control-freak managers are getting in the way of evolution (6nomads.com)

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Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space? (arstechnica.com)

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Workflow Tools for ML Pipelines (towardsdatascience.com)

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DNA is only one among millions of possible genetic molecules (phys.org)

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Building a Galery with Gatsby, Google Sheets and Netlify (dev.to)

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The advantages of distributing a JavaScript lib with URL instead of NPM (medium.com)

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