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PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub (www.vice.com)

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Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (medium.com)

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Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A (news.crunchbase.com)

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Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (math.stackexchange.com)

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Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (2013) (gist.github.com)

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12

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores on 7nm with PCIe 4.0 (www.anandtech.com)

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4

Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images (petapixel.com)

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Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243,000 transfer (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

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Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth (www.syfy.com)

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3

The importance of decentralisation (ungleich.ch)

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4

Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4 (blog.alexellis.io)

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Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey (news.bloomberglaw.com)

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13

Ask HN: Do you write tests before the implementation? (item?id=21533376)

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12

Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube (github.com)

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Google whistleblower: the medical data of millions of Americans is at risk (www.theguardian.com)

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Why scientists need to be better at data visualization (www.knowablemagazine.org)

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Vice Ventures is investing in taboo industries that other funds won’t touch (marker.medium.com)

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Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? (stackoverflow.blog)

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7

Cats Cannot Taste Sweets (www.scientificamerican.com)

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9

The 80/24 Rule (blog.ploeh.dk)

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Cityspeak from Blade Runner (2002) (www.brmovie.com)

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Unknown Fund: Investing and donating to support anonymity (www.unknown.fund)

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Offshore wind will be a $1T industry by 2040, but it's needed now (www.utilitydive.com)

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27

Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide (www.zdnet.com)

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15

A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems (witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com)

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8

It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning (shermanonsoftware.com)

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GNU Assembler Patches For Optimizing The Intel Jump Conditional Code Erratum (www.phoronix.com)

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The case for banning ads in social media (chanind.github.io)

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Against Economics (www.nybooks.com)

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Oyo's business model is looking a lot like WeWork's (asia.nikkei.com)

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Bar Chart Race, Explained (observablehq.com)

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Show HN: RustyBox is a busybox fork written entirely in Rust (github.com)

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Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS (www.blog.google)

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17

Organice – Using Org mode from a smartphone or browser [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Gitea 1.10.0 Released (blog.gitea.io)

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Breach affecting 1M was caught only after hacker maxed out storage (arstechnica.com)

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Wait Wait Tell Me: The Psychology of Loading Screens (99percentinvisible.org)

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AWS forbids partners even mentioning multi-cloud (www.crn.com.au)

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Don’t Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds (papers.ssrn.com)

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The MLM Epidemic in 13 Maps (myradvocate.com)

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Martin Fowler – WaterfallProcess (martinfowler.com)

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Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees (techcrunch.com)

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism [video] (iai.tv)

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Optical Proof of Work (arxiv.org)

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The architecture of declarative configuration management (blog.nelhage.com)

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We're Surrounded by Billions of Internet-Connected Devices. Can We Trust Them? (www.newsweek.com)

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Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)

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A lattice-based cryptographic library in Go (github.com)

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Dear Devs, please stop using Medium for your contents (item?id=21534564)

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Common Workflow Language (www.commonwl.org)

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HashiCorp Vault 1.3 (www.hashicorp.com)

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GCC 7.5 (gcc.gnu.org)

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Lithium producers hit by first big downturn of electric vehicle era (www.reuters.com)

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How Quantum Teleportation Works (quantum.country)

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Sand-slithering snakes behave like light waves (phys.org)

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Any number can start a factorial (www.johndcook.com)

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OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release (github.com)

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24

The perfect programming language (cygni.se)

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Fusion in a magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device (arxiv.org)

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Show HN: BrachioGraph, an easy-to-build pen-plotter, driven by Python (https://www.brachiograph.art)

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Live in an adult dorm? Starcity thinks you would, for the right price [video] (www.pressheretv.com)

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Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex currently held hostage by ransomware (www.bloomberg.com)

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Cloud Run, a Managed Knative Service, Is GA (cloud.google.com)

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How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android Chrome (www.digitional.com)

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20

Re-reading the novels of John le Carré (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Tools for Conviviality (1973) [pdf] (co-munity.net)

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Cityspeak from Blade Runner [pdf] (www.ric.edu)

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The Raspberry Pi 4 might not need a fan anymore (www.jeffgeerling.com)

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15

The Intercept (writer.inklestudios.com)

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Image Recognition Trends in 2020 (imagga.com)

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The Amazon Transparency Program Is a Counterfeiter's Worst Nightmare (www.forbes.com)

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More than 50% of insects have disappeared since 1970, an ecologist warns (www.businessinsider.com)

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27

APLcart – Find Your Way in APL (aplcart.info)

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21

The wonderful world of insects (delanceyplace.com)

42 points first seen 2019111503 last seen 2019111518 12 comments

15

Robert Graves' Mythologies (lareviewofbooks.org)

38 points first seen 2019111506 last seen 2019111803 10 comments

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The Treacherous Optimization (2006) (ridiculousfish.com)

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Wikipedia’s co-founder takes on Facebook with ad-free social network (thenextweb.com)

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Downloading Large Heroku Postgres Backups (blog.testdouble.com)

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Calm Before the Storm (www.typeinvestigations.org)

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22

Guaranteed communication despite DDoS attacks – Scion (www.scion-architecture.net)

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Why states are rushing to seal tens of millions of old criminal records (www.economist.com)

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They Turn ’49 Mercurys and Shelby Cobras into EVs, One Tesla Carcass at a Time (www.latimes.com)

30 points first seen 2019111506 last seen 2019111603 6 comments

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Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered (phys.org)

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Build Your Own React (pomb.us)

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23

The Daredevil of Niagara Falls (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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WeWork has been sending noncompete letters to workers it laid off (www.businessinsider.com)

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51

Fed sees climate change shaping economy, policy (www.reuters.com)

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Climate change: do more now or risk catastrophe (www.theguardian.com)

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History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future (www.theguardian.com)

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46

Announcing Gatsby Cloud (www.gatsbyjs.org)

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Saudi spies hacked my phone and tried to stop my activism. I won’t stop fighting (www.washingtonpost.com)

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.org TLD was sold to private investor (www.internetsociety.org)

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Why the US economy isn’t as competitive or free as you think (www.ft.com)

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The US could end up running on gasoline forever (www.businessinsider.com)

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Browser-based interface for the new Deezer’s audio separation engine (moises.ai)

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As a user, I ____ (twitter.com)

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Seoul is putting solar on all public buildings and 1M homes (electrek.co)

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NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX (arstechnica.com)

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Fourteen years after launching 1Password takes $200M (techcrunch.com)

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The Permanent ESP32 HW Exploit (twitter.com)

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On the “Luxury Internet” (www.nytimes.com)

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83

Most Popular Languages on GitHub (github.com)

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Google’s serverless containers platform Cloud Run is now GA (cloud.google.com)

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LA adds hundreds of EV chargers to streetlights (electrek.co)

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So the internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped (www.nytimes.com)

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Boeing abandons its fuselage robots on the 777X, handing job back to machinists (www.seattletimes.com)

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CockroachDB Passes TPC-C at 100k Warehouses, 100 times more scalable than Aurora (www.cockroachlabs.com)

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Fairbnb.coop launches, offering help for social projects (www.theguardian.com)

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Microsoft vows to ‘honor’ California’s sweeping privacy law across entire US (www.theverge.com)

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How 2 Guys Built Power in 8 Months for Less Than $500 (www.pixelsgaming.com)

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PayPal abruptly cuts off Pornhub’s payroll (www.theverge.com)

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NSA has stopped collecting location data from US cellphones without a warrant (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN A simple script to use pug with any Python framework (github.com)

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Ask HN: My startup seems to be padding numbers (item?id=21542025)

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Tax break to help poor went to GOP donor's superyacht marina (www.propublica.org)

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How the FCC solves consumer problems – Well, it doesn’t, really (arstechnica.com)

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CSML – A new open-source language dedicated to building chatbots (https://docs.csml.dev)

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Admin Dashboards – Open-Source and Free (dev.to)

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Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do (www.facebook.com)

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Reddit AMA with Brendan Eich on Brave Browser (www.reddit.com)

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Forcing vegan diet upon kids can lead to jail time in Belgium (qz.com)

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Bank Had the Worst Password Policy We've Ever Seen (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: BrachioGraph, an ultra-cheap pen-plotter in time-lapse action [video] (vimeo.com)

7 points first seen 2019111506 last seen 2019111506 2 comments

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Quantum physics: Our study suggests objective reality doesn't exist (phys.org)

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Show HN: SkyAlt – Organize your work and life(source-available, self-hosted) (skyalt.com)

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Common Web Security Mistakes That Cost Millions (www.immuniweb.com)

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Uber Fined $649M for Saying Drivers Aren’t Employees (www.nytimes.com)

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Why tyranny could be the inevitable outcome of democracy (theconversation.com)

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How the Fed Boosts the 1%: Even the Upper Middle Loses Household Wealth to 1% (wolfstreet.com)

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David Chaum and Guido van Rossum Awarded Dijkstra Fellowship (www.cwi.nl)

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Over half of Fortune 500 exposed to remote access hacking (www.axios.com)

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Using public USB charging stations could drain your bank account, officials warn (abc7.com)

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Taiji: Managing global user traffic for large-scale Internet services at the (blog.acolyer.org)

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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launches Twitter and Facebook rival (www.ft.com)

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0

Spectre, Meltdown, Foreshadow, Fallout, RIDL, ZombieLoad Vulnerability Checker (github.com)

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0

Intel Could Take Years to Catch Up – Ryzen 9 3950X Review (www.youtube.com)

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AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores Muscles into the Mainstream (www.tomshardware.com)

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Italian council flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change (www.cnn.com)

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Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring Down Police Drone (interestingengineering.com)

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I Am Not a Maker (www.theatlantic.com)

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Private Equity Ghouls Buy Non-Profit That Handles .Org Domains (gizmodo.com)

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0

Basecamp Personal Edition (basecamp.com)

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0

What Makes the Top 10% of Founders Different? – Michael Seibel (www.youtube.com)

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Chilean Protesters Took Down a Drone with Standard Laser Pointers (www.nextgov.com)

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India’s toxic smog is a common affliction in middle-income countries (www.economist.com)

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Menlo Park Police used city funds to taxi homeless woman to SF (www.almanacnews.com)

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California is becoming a nightmare. Here's why the state is getting unlivable (www.businessinsider.com)

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Threat Actor Impersonates USPS to Deliver Backdoor Malware (threatpost.com)

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Groq Announces World's First Architecture Capable of 1 PetaOps on a Single Chip (www.prnewswire.com)

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You don't understand money – and it's a good thing for Bitcoin (beta.sapien.network)

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Dear VP of Engineering (An Open Letter from HR) (www.qualified.io)

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