hackerNews

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Mozilla lays off 70 (techcrunch.com)

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Mozilla lays off 70 (techcrunch.com)

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Vscodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode (vscodium.com)

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Reverse engineering course (github.com)

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Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware (glia.org)

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New year, new browser – The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview (blogs.windows.com)

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Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds (news.trust.org)

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An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019) (aeon.co)

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JetBrains Mono. A Typeface for Developers (www.jetbrains.com)

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New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking the law (www.forbrukerradet.no)

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Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction (hbr.org)

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Google is killing off Chrome apps (www.theverge.com)

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Everything I Know About SSDs (kcall.co.uk)

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CollegeHumor shuts down (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds (arstechnica.com)

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Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property (www.bbc.com)

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MIT 6.004: Computation Structures (6004.mit.edu)

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DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (github.com)

257 points first seen 2020011609 last seen 2020011800 30 comments

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How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage (www.cjr.org)

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A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties (github.com)

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FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case (ww.9to5mac.com)

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Physician Burnout Widespread, Especially Among Those Midcareer, Report Says (www.wsj.com)

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SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase (https://sapphire-db.com)

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Security Architecture Anti-Patterns (www.ncsc.gov.uk)

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How to identify an immoral maze (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT (github.com)

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Finding Time to Invest in Yourself (nav.al)

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Is TypeScript Worth It? (blog.logrocket.com)

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How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service (engineering.shopify.com)

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“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time” (twitter.com)

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What kind of data is my new car collecting about me? Nearly everything, it seems (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4 (www.gmass.co)

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Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons (www.quantamagazine.org)

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On Pair Programming (martinfowler.com)

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New 10.3″ Waveshare E Ink Monitor (blog.the-ebook-reader.com)

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Elon, your Customer Support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time (mobile.twitter.com)

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Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++ (nebula-graph.io)

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Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home (www.businessinsider.com)

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Firebase as a React Hook (pragli.com)

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Understanding Bash (2018) (www.linuxjournal.com)

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Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes in the Himalayas (www.bbc.com)

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Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond (gowaterfalling.com)

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Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016) (computerhistory.org)

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The Military Is Building Long-Range Facial Recognition That Works in the Dark (onezero.medium.com)

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All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen (www.polygon.com)

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I Quit Contracting 6 Months Ago. Here's How I'm Doing. With Charts (coda.io)

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Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment (en.wikipedia.org)

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Kubernaughty: A collection of documentation, how-tos, tools for K8s (github.com)

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To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017) (qz.com)

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Carlos Ghosn’s Escape to Beirut (www.bloomberg.com)

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Show HN: CrossHair – SMT Assisted Testing for Python (github.com)

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No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites (spectrum.ieee.org)

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An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW (github.com)

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A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri (advances.sciencemag.org)

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The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth – Gary Gygax’s first published D&D module (www.dndchronologically.com)

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You Bet [pdf] (www.oaktreecapital.com)

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Toyota invests $394M in flying taxis (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux (pulp-platform.github.io)

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What we know so far about the Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability (blog.lessonslearned.org)

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How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++? (lemire.me)

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Show HN: Murex – non-Posix shell designed for productivity (murex.rocks)

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Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution (ai.googleblog.com)

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On Composition (2019) (shalabh.com)

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Von Neumann and Turing's Universal Machine (cacm.acm.org)

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Hyundai and Uber Unveil Autonomous Pods, EVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem at CES (cleantechnica.com)

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JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers (jetbrains.com)

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DEA seized father’s life savings at airport without alleging any crime occurred (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it? (meta.stackexchange.com)

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Next.js 9.2 (nextjs.org)

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The Oregon DMV took in $11.5M last year by selling your information (katu.com)

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Apple Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Xnor.ai (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ancient Egypt may have given cats the personality to conquer the world (2017) (www.sciencemag.org)

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Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning (blog.acolyer.org)

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PyTorch 1.4: Custom mobile builds, distributed model parallel, Java bindings (github.com)

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Classes, styles, conflicts: The biological realm of LaTeX [pdf] (2010) (www.tug.org)

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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller (queue.acm.org)

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Mitigation for Intel GPU Vulnerability Obliterates Gen7 iGPU Performance (www.phoronix.com)

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Running Linux on your smartphone in 2020 (tuxphones.com)

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College Degrees Used to Make Families Wealthier. That’s No Longer True (www.worth.com)

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Quine (rosettacode.org)

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Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable (www.afp.com)

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Publishing the Unpublishable (www.ubu.com)

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A World Without Work (www.theguardian.com)

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Why street food is making a comeback in Japan (www.bbc.com)

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Zeroing in on Decarbonization (news.mit.edu)

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Electric VTOL Aircraft News (evtol.news)

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Climate change means the US must start building big things again (www.technologyreview.com)

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File manager nnn v2.9 – simpler controls, smarter workflows (github.com)

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Ask HN: True Apartment Costs in SF? (item?id=22058745)

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The Dark Side of Expertise (lwn.net)

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English Hedges (www.britainexpress.com)

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The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm (slate.com)

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QMK Firmware – An open source firmware for AVR and ARM based keyboards (qmk.fm)

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How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX (uxdesign.substack.com)

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IBM Reveals “Staggering” New Battery Tech, Withholds Technical Details (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The Price of Protecting Rhinos (www.theatlantic.com)

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Cambridge Analytica’s role in Kenya and Nigeria (www.iafrikan.com)

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Compiling Dark to SQL (medium.com)

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Google Gives Chrome OS Apps a Shutdown Date (arstechnica.com)

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A modular module system [pdf] (caml.inria.fr)

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Wireless Networks Pose No Known Health Risk (tidbits.com)

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Paul Davies: “The Demon in the Machine” – Talks at Google (www.youtube.com)

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Solved: Why Poor States Are Red and Rich States Are Blue (www.forbes.com)

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Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World (www.theatlantic.com)

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What’s the Price of Getting Your Data? More Data (www.nytimes.com)

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Salka the Salonnière: On the queen of old Hollywood’s émigrés (harpers.org)

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DIPY: Library for computational neuroanatomy, focusing mainly on dMRI analysis (github.com)

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Simon Donaldson Awarded Wolf Prize for Mathematics (www.imperial.ac.uk)

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US may subsidize Huawei alternatives with proposed $1.25B fund (arstechnica.com)

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Course: Anomaly Detection (software.intel.com)

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S3 Bucket Access Logging Fundamentals (blog.runpanther.io)

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What's the best modern terminal emulator for Windows? (item?id=22057194)

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Mowing Lawns Less Increases Biodiversity, Reduces Pests and Saves Money (scitechdaily.com)

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Being a Pro (Founders and VCs) (nextviewventures.com)

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The Beef Programming Language (https://www.beeflang.org)

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DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (twitter.com)

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New dinosaur discovered in China shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds (www.eurekalert.org)

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Minimum Wage Raises Could Lower Suicide Rates, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: I wrote a free book on building remote teams (productizeteam.co)

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Show HN: JamTemplates – High-quality free themes for Gatsby (jamtemplates.com)

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Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems (hbr.org)

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A Cambrian Explosion of Crypto Proofs (nakamoto.com)

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2020 is the start of a new authoritarian era at an unprecedented scale (www.reddit.com)

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Bao: A verified streaming tool based on BLAKE3 (github.com)

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When mom asks me what is a Product Manager? (medium.com)

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Open source is free, but expensive (xscode.com)

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Deep Learning for Anime and Manga (research.mangaki.fr)

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84

Moving Forward from Chrome Apps (blog.chromium.org)

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Show HN: Dynamically trace go programs with eBPF (github.com)

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Bad Projects Affect Your Life (medium.com)

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0

Learning Rust (pascalprecht.github.io)

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The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations (www.phoronix.com)

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Learnings from 2 years of building, owning and growing a product (dmonn.ch)

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'A major step forward.' China launches its carbon market (www.eenews.net)

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Elementary school kids doused as jet dumps fuel before LAX emergency landing (www.latimes.com)

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Why We’re Writing Machine Learning Infrastructure in Go, Not Python (towardsdatascience.com)

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Parkinson's Law (1955) [pdf] (www.berglas.org)

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Helicopter Parents Make Their Kids Feel Invisible (parenting.nytimes.com)

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Last Year Was the 2nd-Hottest on Record. These Charts Show the Trend (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Secret messages in public forums (item?id=22061824)

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0

Flexport Engineering Lands in Amsterdam – join us for the launch event 5 Feb (https://amsflexportlaunch.splashthat.com)

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XIX (YC W17) Is Hiring Engineers in San Francisco (jobs.lever.co)

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Dover (YC S19) is building the first truly modern recruiting agency. Join us (www.dover.io)

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