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Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)

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The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Happy Hues – Curated colors in context (www.happyhues.co)

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Open Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat (www.mumble.info)

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Win32 on macOS (www.winehq.org)

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Tony Booker, inventor of assembly code, has died (www.nytimes.com)

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49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change (www.grahamcluley.com)

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Pipenv: If this project is dead, just tell us (github.com)

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Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens? (item?id=21783303)

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Cyc (en.wikipedia.org)

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Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes (www.bloomberg.com)

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How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online (www.wsj.com)

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AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results (arstechnica.com)

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Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017) (hbr.org)

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How to Reduce the Costs of Your HTTP(s) API on AWS (gameanalytics.com)

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Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017) (emilydamstra.com)

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The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? (item?id=21786111)

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Shopping Sucks Now (www.vice.com)

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What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Deep Sea (neal.fun)

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Click Here to Kill (harpers.org)

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Bloomberg just bought CityLab and put half its reporters out of a job (www.motherjones.com)

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“Deep JavaScript” is now available online (exploringjs.com)

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We 30x'd our Node parallelism (blog.plaid.com)

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Ask HN: Best ways to volunteer? (item?id=21783323)

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Offering software for snooping to governments is a booming business (www.economist.com)

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Modern garbage collection: Part 2 (blog.plan99.net)

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Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle (https://www.lastingpaper.com)

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Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering (jacco.ompf2.com)

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Oklo launches Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in US (www.nsenergybusiness.com)

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Show HN: Falco, Open Source Web Performance Monitoring (github.com)

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A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates (www.nature.com)

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Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

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Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists (arstechnica.com)

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Using Broadway in an Elixir application (blog.appsignal.com)

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The Cybertruck is not brutalist (www.inverse.com)

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Startup Growth and Venture Returns (angel.co)

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Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018) (sujithjay.com)

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Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014) (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)

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Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010) (themillions.com)

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A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished (www.theverge.com)

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Framework Patterns (blog.startifact.com)

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Intel Takes Lidar Indoors (www.zdnet.com)

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The future of finance is self-driving money (venturegrit.substack.com)

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Deepmind: A set of 13 machine-learning tasks that require memory to solve (github.com)

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Genius sues Google over allegedly stolen song lyrics (www.theverge.com)

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McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health (www.vox.com)

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The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback (www.adn.com)

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Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons (www.sanity.io)

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VirtualBox 6.1 (www.virtualbox.org)

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How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies (remotehub.io)

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Metrics That Matter (queue.acm.org)

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Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out (www.bloomberg.com)

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Thief Stole Payroll Data for Thousands of Facebook Employees (www.bloomberg.com)

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Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement (www.propublica.org)

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DepHell – Project Management for Python (https://dephell.org)

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Stonehenge 1875 family photo may be earliest at monument (www.bbc.co.uk)

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General Election 2019: How computers wrote BBC election result stories (www.bbc.co.uk)

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CIA Gift Shop (www.eaamoc.com)

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Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approval in Europe (www.en24.news)

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New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster (mattstoller.substack.com)

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A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges [pdf] (1gyhoq479ufd3yna29x7ubjn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com)

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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications (queue.acm.org)

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Phonon heat transfer across a vacuum through quantum fluctuations (www.nature.com)

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The Drums of Cyberwar (www.nybooks.com)

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Show HN: Browser Based PowerPoint Alternative (sizle.io)

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Neo.mjs – the webworkers driven UI framework (github.com)

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Learning human objectives by evaluating hypothetical behaviours (deepmind.com)

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Tracking Electric Scooters in Lisbon (sknzl.github.io)

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Pony 0.33.1 has been released (www.ponylang.io)

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GM’s Former President Calls for the End of Car Ownership (www.bloomberg.com)

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How Bell Labs Tried to Suppress Innovation (www.jstor.org)

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MLISP (1968) [pdf] (i.stanford.edu)

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Arizona Man Sues State Agency over Right to Call Himself an Engineer (spectrum.ieee.org)

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‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place (www.theguardian.com)

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Biohackers with Diabetes Are Making Their Own Insulin (elemental.medium.com)

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Using Bash to Automate Rubocop Fixes (krmannix.com)

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Google removes options to always show www in the Chrome browser's address bar (www.ghacks.net)

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Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard (arxiv.org)

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Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers from Their Services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Turvo Fired Its CEO for Expensing $76,120 at Strip Clubs (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Joy of Coalholes (cheltonia.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Company quietly did stock split, implications for options? (item?id=21785655)

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What to Know About Your Rights to Unionize (www.teenvogue.com)

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Login Walls Stop Users in Their Tracks (2014) (www.nngroup.com)

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Nike’s Fastest Shoes May Give Runners an Even Bigger Advantage Than We Thought (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Be Your Own Password Generator (hachibu.github.io)

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Jeff Bezos says big tech employee activists are wrong (www.businessinsider.in)

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Login.gov neutered the security of 2FA (waleedkhan.name)

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Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (www.fastcompany.com)

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Explainer: Reducing User-Agent Granularity (github.com)

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According to the TÜV the Cybertruck won't be legal to drive in Europe (twitter.com)

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Enabling IPv6 in Docker (ungleich.ch)

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A Man Who Never Was (2010) (reprints.longform.org)

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I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it (www.theguardian.com)

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Unstoppable emissions from melting permafrost may have already begun (www.vox.com)

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Intuitive Overview of Linear Algebra Fundamentals [pdf] (github.com)

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Show HN: Masking – Generate anonymized database (github.com)

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Fewer than 10% of Americans are buying $1k smartphones, report says (arstechnica.com)

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Colors, Emotions, and the Auction Value of Paintings (papers.ssrn.com)

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Offline and back again: Surviving the PHP 7 upgrade by adding one letter (alanhogan.com)

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Finally getting somewhere: Memories of Oliver Sacks’s shy, eccentric brilliance (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Maine County Deploys Wide-Area Emergency Public Radio Service (www.rrmediagroup.com)

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Ask HN: Are you a maker, indie hacker? (item?id=21781082)

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AI has bested chess and Go, but it struggles to find a diamond in Minecraft (www.theverge.com)

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Rebooting Datastores into the Future (medium.com)

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The SpaceX Decade: How One Company Changed Spaceflight Forever (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Show HN: OpenFaaS Classic Templates (github.com)

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Write Dumb Code – Advice from Four Leading Java Developers (www.oracle.com)

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Statistical paradoxes for sharping your Bayesian skills (gfrison.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a bubble in software work? What's the 5/10 year forecast? (item?id=21784715)

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PostgreSQL 12 Explain Settings (fluca1978.github.io)

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Show HN: GQLHub – Fully hosted, configuration-free GraphQL endpoints in seconds (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ask HN: Should I launch in my local city or abroad? (item?id=21781574)

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United Nation's Online Volunteering Program (https://www.onlinevolunteering.org)

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The Magician of NFL Broadcasts (www.theringer.com)

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Show HN: Gmailpush – Gmail API Push Notification Handler for Node (github.com)

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Mux Is Looking for a Generalist to Work on Elixir APIs and TypeScript/React (mux.com)

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Flexport is hiring a senior product manager to lead our ocean freight team (www.flexport.com)

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