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Microsoft Begins Showing an Anti-Firefox Ad in the Windows 10 Start Menu Search (news.softpedia.com)

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“We already store data. In a database. It works well” (twitter.com)

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Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece (www.openculture.com)

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Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax (www.justice.gov)

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SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python (www.nature.com)

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Oh, don't worry, I've screwed up plenty of things too (rachelbythebay.com)

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A 17B-parameter language model by Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

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JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language (white.ucc.asn.au)

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ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money (www.namecheap.com)

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“I made an operating system UI within Unity” (old.reddit.com)

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Performant Front-End Architecture (www.debugbear.com)

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Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps (medium.com)

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Costco Capitalism (www.bryanlehrer.com)

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I Was Wrong about Nix (christine.website)

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Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention? (item?id=22290362)

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The Disneyfication of a University (academeblog.org)

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Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training (www.microsoft.com)

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Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats (geoman.io)

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Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants (yap.chat)

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Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2016) [pdf] (plateau-workshop.org)

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A new model and dataset for long-range memory (deepmind.com)

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Visual 6502 in JavaScript (visual6502.org)

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All about Birds (www.allaboutbirds.org)

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Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication (github.com)

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Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures (github.com)

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What does happiness at work mean? (adlrocha.substack.com)

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In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles (www.outsideonline.com)

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When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? (www.mentalfloss.com)

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Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s (www.inputmag.com)

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A Prospective Alzheimers Trial Reports Results (blogs.sciencemag.org)

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Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities (www.seattletimes.com)

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Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice (200ok.ch)

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Redneck Bank – Where Bankin's Funner (https://redneck.bank)

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Fyne: Native Mobile UX in Go (github.com)

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Free Illustrations of the Natural World (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics (mathpendium.org)

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Companies that buy data derived from scraping the contents of email (www.vice.com)

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SoftBank-Backed Brandless Shutters Less Than 2 Years After Investment (www.bloomberg.com)

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Send me your privacy abuse tipoffs – Robert Heaton (robertheaton.com)

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Why I'm Leaving San Francisco (meta study of 100 posts) (www.ryanckulp.com)

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Thinking About Recursion (www.solipsys.co.uk)

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Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba (techcrunch.com)

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Debugging C++ Coroutines [pdf] (www.open-std.org)

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Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems (mathoverflow.net)

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Long Term Support (exple.tive.org)

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The laser and microphone atop Mars 2020, NASA's next rover (phys.org)

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A document signed by a five year old, agreeing to be deported (www.documentcloud.org)

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On Drafting an Engineering Strategy (www.paperplanes.de)

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Ask HN: It is worth switching from web development to native iOS dev (item?id=22288217)

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Audit Initiated of FAA's Pilot Training Requirements (www.oig.dot.gov)

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If You Look Very, Very Close, Antarctica Is Teeming With Life (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Coronavirus – The Status of the Outbreak and 4 Possible Scenarios (www.cassandracapital.net)

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Learn Python the NSA Way (twitter.com)

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Europe’s solar orbiter begins its journey to the Sun tonight (arstechnica.com)

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Robotic submarine snaps images at foundation of Antarctic glacier (cos.gatech.edu)

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Let ICANN know if you support .com price hikes (www.internetcommerce.org)

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Agile as Trauma (doriantaylor.com)

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Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force (thehill.com)

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Taika Waititi Slams Apple's MacBook Keyboards After Winning Oscar (www.theverge.com)

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The optimal way of folding a bond notebook page into a bookmark (arxiv.org)

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Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math (www.forrestthewoods.com)

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Headlinese (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub (github.com)

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Data and Reality (buttondown.email)

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Unlocking Colors (bkardell.com)

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“How do you talk to 'I have nothing to hide' people?” (lobste.rs)

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Why the HS2 rail route is so expensive (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A Teacher Did an Experiment to Show the Power of Handwashing (brightside.me)

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Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down? (www.quantamagazine.org)

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A mysterious 80 nm amoeba virus with a near-complete “ORFan genome” (www.biorxiv.org)

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Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases (links.namecheap.com)

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Deep Linking in React Native (arsfutura.co)

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Ask HN: How do I stay motivated to learn? (item?id=22290979)

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Oscar Winner Taika Waititi Criticizes Mac Keyboards (twitter.com)

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Was the Nuclear Family a Mistake? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Project Verona FAQ [a language with ownership and regions] (github.com)

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Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases (links.namecheap.com)

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Let's be real about dependencies (wiki.alopex.li)

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Virtualenv 20.0.0 Released (virtualenv.pypa.io)

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Gradually, by Word of Mouth (twitter.com)

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Boomers got houses and good jobs. Doomers get AGI (stevehazel.github.io)

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Google Chrome to block file downloads over HTTP (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Coders at Work on finding and preventing bugs (2015) (www.benkuhn.net)

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The editorial boards are failing on climate (heated.world)

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Show HN: Jooseph – Playlists for Learning (item?id=22292889)

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Is Ruby on Rails Dead? (http://israilsdead.com)

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Google’s head of HR to step down (fortune.com)

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Media Is Broken (www.nybooks.com)

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The New York Times's success lays bare the media's disastrous state (www.theguardian.com)

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What You Need to Know About Magnesium and Your Sleep (www.psychologytoday.com)

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Do morning people do better in school because school starts early? (arstechnica.com)

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Technical debt and tacking into the wind (2013) (flak.tedunangst.com)

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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests (www.theatlantic.com)

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Coronavirus Genome Posted on the UCSC Genome Browser (news.ucsc.edu)

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IBM picks Slack over Microsoft Teams for its 350k employees (www.theverge.com)

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Amazon wants Trump to testify in battle over $10B Pentagon contract (edition.cnn.com)

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Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech included a plea to end speciesism (www.youtube.com)

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Phantom Public (2016) (www.dissentmagazine.org)

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A man says he's stockpiling billions of our photos (edition.cnn.com)

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Five Great Libraries to Manage Big Data with Python (www.theseattledataguy.com)

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Show HN: A open source Heroku-like PaaS that runs on your server (www.repobus.com)

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I stumbled across an Airbnb scam that’s taking over London (www.wired.co.uk)

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Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Equifax Breach (www.wsj.com)

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Learn Authentication the Hard Way (www.andrew-best.com)

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China's Hubei reports 103 new deaths on Feb. 10 (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: Turbo Boost Disable for macOS (github.com)

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Ask HN: How do software platforms ensure money is transferred to lender? (item?id=22287516)

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Israeli Voters: Data of All 6.5M Voters Leaked (www.nytimes.com)

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Running Linux Programs as Unikernels on macOS (dev.to)

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Remembering organic chemistry legend Robert Burns Woodward (2017) (cen.acs.org)

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Coronavirus: Infection 'could reach 60% of population if unchecked' (www.theguardian.com)

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Do you aim for 80% code coverage? Let me guess which 80% you choose (dev.to)

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Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring a Content Head in the Presidio of San Francisco (angel.co)

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OneSignal is hiring a Backend Engineer interested in writing in Go and Rust (onesignal.com)

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