hackerNews

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Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival (www.zdnet.com)

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I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe (www.starterstory.com)

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Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight (www.axios.com)

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Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' (www.bbc.com)

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How to motivate people? Talk about the context of the work to be done (www.sametab.com)

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Google cancels weekly TGIF meetings (www.cnbc.com)

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Sourcehut's Year in Alpha (sourcehut.org)

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Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal, US Supreme Court (towardsdatascience.com)

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Annotating literally everything: overview of tools and techniques (beepb00p.xyz)

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Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors (guzey.com)

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Microsoft Advertisment Inc. (neil.computer)

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Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results (www.msn.com)

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Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’ (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)

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Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models (blog.floydhub.com)

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Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail (www.nj.com)

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Exploiting Intel’s Management Engine (kakaroto.homelinux.net)

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The “No Man's Sky” Archaeology Project (archaeologydataservice.ac.uk)

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Nan Gates and Flip Flops (tom7.org)

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9 year old to graduate university (www.cnn.com)

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What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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The Configuration Complexity Curse (blog.cedriccharly.com)

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Effectively Using Matplotlib (2017) (pbpython.com)

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TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (www.righto.com)

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Homology (www.tungsteno.io)

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Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again (adamsgaard.dk)

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The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting (www.cs.columbia.edu)

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Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator (github.com)

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Yelp open-sources Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos (engineeringblog.yelp.com)

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LLVM-tutor: collection of out-of-tree LLVM examples for teaching and learning (github.com)

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The Case Against Boeing (www.newyorker.com)

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Nuvia Breaks Cover: New Startup to Take on Datacenter CPU Market (www.anandtech.com)

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Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code (codemipsum.pomb.us)

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The day when starting a receiver fixed the transmitter (rachelbythebay.com)

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Roar (1981 Film) (en.wikipedia.org)

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A Year of Helping Customers Build Production-Ready Kubernetes Infrastructure (www.pulumi.com)

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Pinephone – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone (store.pine64.org)

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Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server (secureview.cloudbrowser.xyz)

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Kore4 and Python (blog.kore.io)

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U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills (www.bloomberg.com)

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MacBook Pro teardown confirms the new keyboard is just the old keyboard (www.theverge.com)

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SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC (www.anandtech.com)

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GC Fun at Twitch (modularfinance.se)

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Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator (www.outpan.com)

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Ask HN: What printer do you recommend for rare printing? (item?id=21545491)

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Ten Years of Building Apps (lukaspetr.com)

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Oral History of Ken Thompson (2005) [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)

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Bill.com Files for $100M IPO (news.crunchbase.com)

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The “Melissa Worm” Through the Eyes of the FBI (www.muckrock.com)

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Open Connect (openconnect.netflix.com)

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What Makes a Good Runbook? (www.transposit.com)

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Death per billion car journeys is less than dead per billion air journeys (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Why is Firefox installer listed as harmful file in Chrome? (item?id=21544775)

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Ohio passes bill allowing student answers scientifically wrong due to religion (local12.com)

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Show HN: HintPod – Reach product/market fit quicker (http://hintpod.com)

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We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables (www.technologyreview.com)

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Emulated Iopl() (lwn.net)

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Facebook Ads removed our permissions, still charges us money (blog.adafruit.com)

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A Startup Trying to Help Car Dealers Weather Hailstorms (www.bloomberg.com)

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Germany forces Apple to let other mobile wallet services use iPhone’s NFC chip (9to5mac.com)

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I Found Work on an Amazon Website. I Made 97 Cents an Hour (www.nytimes.com)

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IFixIt: The New MacBook Pro Keyboard Is a Throwback in the Best Way (www.ifixit.com)

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Chrome experiment crashes thousands of browsers and angers IT admins (www.theverge.com)

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Patreon CEO says the company’s generous business model is not sustainable (www.cnbc.com)

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The Beauty of Transport: How my other half learned to love modern architecture (thebeautyoftransport.com)

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.org domain name registry to be sold to private equity firm [pdf] (domainnamewire.com)

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Is Neuromarketing Ethical? (neurofied.com)

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Roth/Updike (hudsonreview.com)

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AAPL is now worth more than entire US energy sector, stock up 66% year to date (9to5mac.com)

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iVerify, an app that tells you if you're hacked (blog.trailofbits.com)

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Twitter user gets blocked for writing “die” in German (twitter.com)

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The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota (www.theguardian.com)

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New Solutions for Quantum Gravity with TensorFlow (ai.googleblog.com)

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EPA to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules (www.nytimes.com)

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Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018) (www.gtf.io)

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Zaydi Manuscript Tradition (www.neh.gov)

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Ask HN: What do you expect from a new manager in an existing team? (item?id=21543503)

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Apple removing all vaping apps from App Store (9to5mac.com)

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Long-term smokers who start vaping see health benefits within a month (www.newscientist.com)

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Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices (2009) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)

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Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Smart home tech can help evict renters, surveillance company tells landlords (www.cnet.com)

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The Supreme Court Will Hear Google and Oracle’s Case (www.theverge.com)

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Disney+ will fix Simpsons' joke-destroying 16:9 aspect ratio starting in 2020 (www.theverge.com)

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Ibsen's Soulcraft (www.firstthings.com)

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Journalist Sharing Their Salary (docs.google.com)

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Life's Irreducible Structure [pdf] (www.informationphilosopher.com)

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What It’s Like to Get Attacked by a Horde of YA Authors (slate.com)

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The Day the Mesozoic Died (2016) (nautil.us)

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United extends grounding of 737 Max fleet to early March (www.cnbc.com)

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How to survive 75 hours alone in the ocean (www.outsideonline.com)

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Son of Assange’s judge linked to anti-data leak co created by UK intelligence (www.dailymaverick.co.za)

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We reduced our Docker images by 60% with –no-install-recommends (ubuntu.com)

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Software helps planners design walkable cities (news.cornell.edu)

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Benchmarking deep learning activation functions on MNIST [OC] (heartbeat.fritz.ai)

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The Raku Guide (raku.guide)

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Express.js Security Tips: Save Your App (http://Express.jsSecurityTips:SaveYourApp!)

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Show HN: When To Chat – A time zone tool for remote teams using Slack (slack.whentochat.co)

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Oracle v. Google Heads to Supreme Court (arstechnica.com)

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Test Desiderata 1/12: tests should be sensitive to behavior [video] (www.youtube.com)

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UpHabit, Dex, and the Stilted Rise of the Personal CRM (www.theatlantic.com)

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Fry’s Electronics says it’s not going out of business (www.dallasnews.com)

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Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (www.youtube.com)

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Micro Front End Architecture: Incrementally Replace a Monolith from Inside Out (levelup.gitconnected.com)

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Apple bans vaping apps from the App Store (www.cnbc.com)

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Fast Temp Mail Generator (https://www.tempinbox.xyz)

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Chrome Dev Summit 2019 – Advancing the web framework ecosystem [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Groq Tensor Streaming Processor Delivers 1 PetaOPS of Compute – WikiChip Fuse (fuse.wikichip.org)

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Getting rid of the OOP mindset (2017) (www.youtube.com)

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Google manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favor big b (news.yahoo.com)

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The Fastest Way to Become a Thought Leader (medium.dave-bailey.com)

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Decoding comma.ai/openpilot: the driving model (medium.com)

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Mathematics Genealogy Project (en.wikipedia.org)

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Nike tried playing nice with Amazon. Here’s why it didn’t work (www.fastcompany.com)

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Google's Chrome OS will start using Debian 10 (Linux) (www.xda-developers.com)

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