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Having Kids
(paulgraham.com)
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Challenging projects every programmer should try
(web.eecs.utk.edu)
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A 497 Terabyte Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
(www.reddit.com)
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Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking
(cs144.github.io)
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Database Internals
(https://databass.dev)
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Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl
(medium.com)
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SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters?
(www.sfchronicle.com)
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Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
(www.vinaysahni.com)
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World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Football #1
(twitter.com)
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Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen
(www.timesofisrael.com)
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Layout 101
(docs.google.com)
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Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune
(https://krabby.netlify.com)
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Returned online purchases often sent to landfill
(www.cbc.ca)
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Books on Thinking About Thinking
(www.bloomberg.com)
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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
(www.0x65.dev)
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Coping with Flexbox
(kgrz.io)
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Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over
(www.wired.com)
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Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
(maplant.com)
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WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel
(kotaku.com)
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Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]
(spacepub.space)
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New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Hidden Bar: tiny macOS utility to hide unused menubar icons, written in Swift
(github.com)
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Linux Toolbox
(jvns.ca)
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Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
(www.vox.com)
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Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?
(item?id=21792158)
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Show HN: CuteUID – Generate Cute UIDs
(github.com)
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Uniquely Canadian Stock Photography from CIRA
(cira.ca)
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Information Theory with TensorFlow
(www.adhiraiyan.org)
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How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting
(docs.simpleanalytics.com)
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Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases
(diverto.github.io)
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Centaur Unveils Its New Server-Class x86 Core
(fuse.wikichip.org)
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The Cathedral and the Bizarre
(marktarver.com)
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Moving to Germany as an Australian (2016)
(blog.alexanderdickson.com)
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Why we fall for cons
(timharford.com)
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The Money Men Who Enabled Adam Neumann and the WeWork Debacle
(www.wsj.com)
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Rsuite – R development and data science platform
(github.com)
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Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone
(www.wired.com)
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Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering [video]
(www.youtube.com)
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Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future
(autoweek.com)
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Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings (2016)
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Problematic monetization in security products, Avira edition
(palant.de)
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Byte Magazine: Future Computers (1981)
(archive.org)
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San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density
(www.sfexaminer.com)
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Dissecting Linux Kernel Code
(finnoleary.net)
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Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans: 32-Core Servers, Sub-7nm Designs
(fuse.wikichip.org)
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An Opinionated Onboarding Setup for New Hires at Microsoft
(www.barik.net)
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Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan
(nutritionj.biomedcentral.com)
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Show HN: Url2cite: Transparently convert links to citations in markdown papers
(phiresky.github.io)
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AWS Re:Invent Presentations
(aws.amazon.com)
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Fixing Impostor Syndrome in Coding Interviews
(www.interviewcake.com)
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The Four Stages of Objective-Smalltalk
(blog.metaobject.com)
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The Startup Side Project Bubble (2013)
(davidhauser.com)
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How Unix Works
(neilkakkar.com)
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Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World
(www.lrb.co.uk)
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Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making
(fs.blog)
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Sushi Design System
(medium.com)
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What I Learned about Style and Writing from Watching Bruce Lee
(philipkiely.com)
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Saving web pages as PDFs in 2019, a real challenge
(www.humaneinterface.net)
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Global Constraint Catalog – A Dictionary for Constraint Programming
(sofdem.github.io)
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A function to sleep a 1000 years: explained
(bowero.nl)
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Iter - 100+ Go implementation of C++ STL iterators and algorithms
(github.com)
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100% automated, official certificates for Docker containers
(ungleich.ch)
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Crows have learnt how to make a meal of cane toads (2018)
(www.australiangeographic.com.au)
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Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2019 edition
(arstechnica.com)
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Using Matplotlib with Scala on Notebook (and More)
(warisradji.com)
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Product Vision, In Action
(www.crowdform.co.uk)
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RocksDB
(rocksdb.org)
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The Thermodynamics Behind the Mac Pro
(www.popularmechanics.com)
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Indonesian cave paintings show the dawn of imaginative art and spiritual belief
(theconversation.com)
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Ten Commandments of Startup Success with Reid Hoffman
(tim.blog)
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What Happened to Software Development?
(hackernoon.com)
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Germany requests WhatsApp, Gmail etc. to hand over passwords in plaintext to DOJ
(translate.google.de)
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Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys
(github.com)
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Visual Studio Code November 2019 Update
(code.visualstudio.com)
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Beyond Mortality: Older Frail Adults Considering Surgical Intervention
(jamanetwork.com)
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Vintage Chemistry Sets
(www.evilmadscientist.com)
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Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering
(youtu.be)
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Remastering Vintage Films with Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks
(medium.com)
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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables
(engineering.fb.com)
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Preoperative Patient Frailty and Operative Stress and Postoperative Mortality
(jamanetwork.com)
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Low-wage work is pervasive, there aren’t enough “good jobs” to go around
(www.brookings.edu)
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Russia Raids Office of U.S. Web Server Giant in Copyright Clash
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Four compulsive advantages of Industry 4.0
(rootquotient.com)
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Escape Competition by Being Yourself
(medium.com)
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A directory of people all of their best content
(waitwho.is)
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Pg_query: Parse PostgreSQL Queries in Ruby
(pganalyze.com)
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Jeff Dean's NeurIPS interview on how ML is newly used in Google systems
(www.wired.com)
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Lime Scooter Accounts Are Being Sold on the Dark Web
(www.vice.com)
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Zorin OS Is the Alternative to Windows and macOS
(zorinos.com)
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Wanted: Virtual reality headsets that aren’t made in China
(www.defensenews.com)
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Andrew “Bunnie” Huang – Supply Chain Security: “If I Were a Nation State ”
(www.youtube.com)
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Why are people attracted to 50:50 probabilities?
(www.economist.com)
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Storage Combinators in Go
(github.com)
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In Vivo Sequestration of Innate Small Molecules to Promote Bone Healing
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Generate React CLI
(hashnode.com)
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Barrett, Rogers consider declassifying secretive space programs
(www.defensenews.com)
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A new, more user-friendly language for programming supercomputers
(engineering.stanford.edu)
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New Orleans declares state of emergency following cyber attack
(www.forbes.com)
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Millennials Are Leaving Religion
(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Show HN: Xcode REPL for remote coding interviews
(www.bananaide.com)
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