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Debt Is Coming (alexdanco.com)

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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (jeffhuang.com)

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Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly? (item?id=22279051)

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Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale (krebsonsecurity.com)

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The Mormon Church Amassed $100B.Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World (www.wsj.com)

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Living Without a SIM Card (habd.as)

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Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck (www.vidarholen.net)

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Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading? (item?id=22280939)

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Colab Pro (colab.research.google.com)

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Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs (github.com)

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Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem? (item?id=22271124)

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Stacked borrows, an aliasing model for Rust (plv.mpi-sws.org)

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Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay (www.cbc.ca)

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Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code (www.stevejgordon.co.uk)

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Lasersaur – open-source laser cutter (github.com)

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One Hundred Ideas for Computing (samsquire.github.io)

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Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes (www.sciencemag.org)

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The tools you’d miss if you left a company (rachelbythebay.com)

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Swiss Journalist Re-Implements ClearViewAI in Two Weeks with OS Software (twitter.com)

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How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists (2000) [pdf] (www.foundationwebsite.org)

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Sierpinski Triangle in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)

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HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2002) (www.wired.com)

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Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus (www.bbc.com)

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Say Goodbye to CoreOS (thenewstack.io)

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McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France (twitter.com)

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Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux (github.com)

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An improvised Lego device helped scientists conduct tests at CERN (home.cern)

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Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux (techplanet.today)

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Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday? (item?id=22271884)

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Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything (jwmza.com)

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Analyzing the attacks on my website (dev.to)

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Negative Feedback Is Positive (davnicwil.com)

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Hacked from a lightbulb (blog.checkpoint.com)

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An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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Jupyter Notebooks to Web App (github.com)

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Modern cloud architecture on AWS: server fleets and databases (start.jcolemorrison.com)

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Rongorongo (en.wikipedia.org)

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CS-838: Virtualization (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

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A History of Simlish, the Language That Defined the Sims (www.theverge.com)

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What happens to all the old wind turbines? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Comfortable Life Is Killing You (medium.com)

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Philosophy as Math-Like Thinking (jessylin.com)

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Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained (www.statnews.com)

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Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, First Principles [video] (www.youtube.com)

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The compelling mathematical challenge of the three-body problem (news.ucsc.edu)

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The Colony Public Beta Is Live (blog.colony.io)

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Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 805, Passing SARS (www.bloomberg.com)

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Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (www.pbs.org)

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Effects of “The Work” meditation on psychological symptoms and quality of life (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features (www.windowslatest.com)

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A Surprisingly Common Mistake Involving Wildcards and the Find Command (blog.robertelder.org)

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Whales are vital to curb climate change – this is the reason why (www.weforum.org)

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A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf] (www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk)

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Fixng Nginx 502 Gateway Timeout with proxy_pass During Deployments (blog.winricklabs.com)

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Format Python Code Using YAPF (leimao.github.io)

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Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [video] (m.youtube.com)

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Understanding GauGAN Part 1 (blog.paperspace.com)

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SEC Commissioner's “safe harbor” proposal for ICOs will only enable scammers (davidgerard.co.uk)

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A CVE Journey: From Crash to Local Privilege Escalation (iamalsaher.tech)

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Seniority in Software Engineering (medium.com)

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Making Sense of Asynchrony in Interactive Data Visualizations (arxiv.org)

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Code Less, Engineer More (increment.com)

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Thee Oh Sees’ year-long effort to put their albums on 8-track box sets (www.theverge.com)

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Warm Water Under Antarctica (www.sdentertainer.com)

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Efficient static checking of library updates (2018) [pdf] (asankhaya.github.io)

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Replication Crisis (en.wikipedia.org)

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Journalists and the free press are under attack around the world (theprivacyissue.com)

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A possible explanation for the mysterious ice circles in Lake Baikal (phys.org)

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Why we need to celebrate social entrepreneurs (medium.com)

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Telidon (www.friendsofcrc.ca)

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LulzSec are apparently claiming responsibility for hacking a Crypto exchange (twitter.com)

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I sabotaged my editor with ransomware from the dark web (www.bloomberg.com)

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Qt Twitter Client Choqok Has Squawked Back to Life (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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The orbit that put men on the moon (www.johndcook.com)

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Scientists supersize quantum mechanics: Largest ever object put in quantum state (www.nature.com)

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An Evening with George Steiner (1929–2020) (nplusonemag.com)

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A Man Who Turned Night into Day (2016) (www.vice.com)

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Geometric Algebra – Siggraph 2019 (youtu.be)

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Patreon Alternative – A New Kind of Donation Card (stickeroid.com)

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Over 36,000 Flash Games have been preserved before Flash dies (kotaku.com)

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Update to VMware’s Per-CPU Pricing Model (www.vmware.com)

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Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038 (blog.robertelder.org)

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Facebook and Twitter reject request by Pelosi to remove doctored video by Trump (www.nytimes.com)

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Technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: Math subfields important to become a distributed systems researcher? (item?id=22279007)

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The Welcome Optimism of “Star Trek: Picard” (www.newyorker.com)

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A New Raspbian Update (www.raspberrypi.org)

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“Predictive” algorithms influencing criminal punishment (www.nytimes.com)

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First Steps with the BraveHeart PinePhone (medium.com)

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‘We have a problem’: EU tech regulator despairs over lack of GDPR enforcement (www.politico.com)

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Questioning your negative thoughts can reduce anxiety and procrastination (solvingprocrastination.com)

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Forever Young – irresponsible speculation about magnets, nicotine, and vitamin A (kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)

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Windows trust in abandoned code lets ransomware burrow deep in targeted machines (arstechnica.com)

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