hackerNews

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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit (howonlee.github.io)

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Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety (boingboing.net)

882 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021515 388 comments

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Japan has 33,000 businesses at least a century old (www.bbc.com)

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Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules (www.latimes.com)

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Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs? (item?id=22324691)

395 points first seen 2020021421 last seen 2020021521 157 comments

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Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces (october.substack.com)

390 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021503 352 comments

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Burnoutindex.org (burnoutindex.org)

362 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021418 177 comments

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Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc. (twitter.com)

355 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021500 136 comments

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Brown; Color Is Weird (youtu.be)

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Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings (techcrunch.com)

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Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build (www.nytimes.com)

323 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021703 606 comments

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Quadsort: Introduction to a new stable sorting algorithm faster than quicksort (github.com)

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The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering (techcrunch.com)

301 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021506 283 comments

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The outsize influence of middle-school friends (www.theatlantic.com)

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Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2) (morrick.me)

253 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021600 239 comments

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Lockdown: Open Source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping and more (https://lockdownhq.com)

248 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021603 73 comments

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GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups (github.blog)

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Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning (arxiv.org)

203 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021603 41 comments

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Nintendo Play Station Up for Auction (comics.ha.com)

200 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021503 129 comments

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Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz (https://shellmagic.xyz)

199 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021506 73 comments

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books? (www.edsurge.com)

198 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021500 45 comments

4

Unofficial Winamp Web Site (http://www.mywinamp.com)

188 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021600 141 comments

10

How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack (slack.engineering)

184 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021500 124 comments

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ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components (medium.com)

176 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021503 39 comments

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Delphi's 25th Birthday (community.idera.com)

175 points first seen 2020021421 last seen 2020021606 185 comments

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Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)

164 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021503 115 comments

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Open Source Security Tools You Should Know (blog.runpanther.io)

161 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021418 15 comments

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PeerTube 2.1 (joinpeertube.org)

153 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021506 24 comments

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Sealed Rust Update: The Plan for Safety Critical Rust (ferrous-systems.com)

152 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021503 29 comments

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Quibble – Custom Windows Bootloader (github.com)

150 points first seen 2020021415 last seen 2020021518 26 comments

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The web as a GUI toolkit (www.arp242.net)

148 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021506 122 comments

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Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s JEDI Contract in Victory for Amazon (www.nytimes.com)

145 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021418 90 comments

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Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application (github.com)

139 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2021052400 39 comments

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The Navy SEAL and His Doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up two lives (rewired.inewsource.org)

136 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021506 35 comments

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How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (2017) (mathwithbaddrawings.com)

130 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021415 15 comments

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Amish Hackers (kk.org)

127 points first seen 2020021421 last seen 2022011321 60 comments

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Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps on IPFS (blog.terminal.co)

124 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021415 57 comments

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McClatchy files bankruptcy (www.mcclatchydc.com)

116 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021418 149 comments

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OpenSSH 8.2 (lists.mindrot.org)

116 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021518 53 comments

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Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp (github.com)

114 points first seen 2020021415 last seen 2022060900 8 comments

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Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y = Re(-sqrt(1-sqrt(abs(x))))} (www.wolframalpha.com)

107 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021403 25 comments

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The Business Case for Formal Methods (www.hillelwayne.com)

107 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021509 61 comments

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A sealed glass case for transporting plants reshaped more than just botany (www.bbc.com)

106 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021703 19 comments

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A Human's Guide to Words (wiki.lesswrong.com)

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Why has progress stalled? (aeon.co)

96 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021500 118 comments

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LibreTaxi 2 published, open-source Uber PoC (github.com)

93 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021518 22 comments

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Unprecedented Facebook URLs Dataset Now Available for Academic Research (socialscience.one)

92 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021803 25 comments

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New Math Makes Scientists More Certain About Quantum Uncertainties (spectrum.ieee.org)

88 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021500 14 comments

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Fedora Muscian's Guide (docs.fedoraproject.org)

88 points first seen 2020021421 last seen 2020021515 77 comments

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State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo (branding.ok.gov)

84 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021412 81 comments

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Time safety is more important than memory safety (halestrom.net)

82 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021506 95 comments

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A Regular Expression Matcher, Code by Rob Pike (2007) (www.cs.princeton.edu)

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Building data liberation infrastructure – Export, access your data effortlessly (beepb00p.xyz)

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Securing the Boot Process (queue.acm.org)

70 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021509 17 comments

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The Complexity of Downloading Favicons (www.simplecto.com)

68 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021412 38 comments

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Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius (hnn.us)

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PerfFuzz: Automatically Generating Pathological Inputs [pdf] (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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AT&T is blocking Tutanota. This shows why we must fight for net neutrality (tutanota.com)

64 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021409 20 comments

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Amazon gets restraining order to block Microsoft work on Pentagon Jedi (www.cnbc.com)

62 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021421 5 comments

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Show HN: Bob – A GUI for DNS Record Management and Name Auctions on Handshake (github.com)

57 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021500 27 comments

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Creating Haptic Feedback in iOS 13 with Core Haptics (exyte.com)

55 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021412 19 comments

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Tests Should be Specific [video] (www.youtube.com)

54 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021509 37 comments

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Gitea 1.11.0 Is Released (blog.gitea.io)

52 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021412 0 comments

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Is Recycling a Waste of Time? (greenthatlife.com)

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Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles (www.nature.com)

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Holy Panda Keyswitch (mechwiki.com)

46 points first seen 2020021421 last seen 2020021518 58 comments

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Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA fordecades (www.bbc.com)

45 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021403 12 comments

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Show HN: Subscription Score – A browser ext that identifies bad mailing lists (https://subscriptionscore.com)

45 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021415 19 comments

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Wayfair growth stops; Layoffs start (www.bostonglobe.com)

45 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021409 21 comments

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Fake Travis Scott Song Created by Artificial Intelligence Sounds Almost Like Him (genius.com)

44 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021506 45 comments

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Quantifying Independently Reproducible Machine Learning (thegradient.pub)

42 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021421 0 comments

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Huawei Charged in Racketeering Conspiracy and Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets (www.justice.gov)

42 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021418 4 comments

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Never Use Floats for Money (2016) (husobee.github.io)

42 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021500 32 comments

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62% of GCs Still Use Excel, SharePoint and Email to Manage Contract Data (www.artificiallawyer.com)

38 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021403 64 comments

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Adam Savage Builds a Rickshaw Pulled by Boston Dynamic's Spot Robot (www.youtube.com)

37 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021418 8 comments

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Engineering Faster Sorters for Small Sets of Items (arxiv.org)

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Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record (www.theguardian.com)

36 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021406 13 comments

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Thinking About Smart Home Power Usage (blakeniemyjski.com)

36 points first seen 2020021409 last seen 2020021421 49 comments

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Camphr: SpaCy plugin for Transformers , Udify, ELmo, etc (github.com)

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Show HN: BigOofN, Job board from the perspective of software engineers (www.bigoofn.com)

34 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021406 40 comments

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What Do We Want History to Do to Us? (www.nybooks.com)

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What 6 years of bootstrapping a startup has taught me (helpstay.com)

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Solitude and Sensory Deprivation (and Johnny Cash) (2019) (solitudes.qmul.ac.uk)

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Keto diet works best in small doses, mouse study finds (www.sciencedaily.com)

25 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021409 11 comments

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London's Answer to New York's High Line? You Must Be Joking (www.theguardian.com)

25 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021406 10 comments

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The GitHub CLI (cli.github.com)

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Charlie Munger warns 'lots of troubles coming' due to 'too much wretched excess' (www.cnbc.com)

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DNC was ‘intimately involved’ in development of troubled Iowa caucus app (news.yahoo.com)

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Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well (www.wired.com)

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Feeding Plants Artificial Sweeteners (2010) (www.jefftk.com)

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Large screen phones: a challenge for UX design, and human hands (www.imaginarycloud.com)

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January 2020 Was Earth’s Hottest January on Record (www.noaa.gov)

19 points first seen 2020021418 last seen 2020021503 0 comments

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An Inflammation of Place (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Building an Analytics Dashboard with Django (morioh.com)

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Troy Price, Iowa Democratic Party Leader, Resigns over Caucas Debacle (www.nytimes.com)

16 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021406 0 comments

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“We Don't Need a Project Manager” (freelancemag.blogspot.com)

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Uber is testing out a new 1-800 number for people who don’t use apps (www.theverge.com)

15 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021406 6 comments

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Cybersecurity is a government game (www.axios.com)

15 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021415 0 comments

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Financial models backtesting at Uber-scale (eng.uber.com)

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: The U.S. Needs a Data Protection Agency (medium.com)

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Proji v0.18.1: The project scaffolding tool now supports GitHub and Gitlab (github.com)

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California Auditor's Damning Report About Automated License Plate Readers (www.eff.org)

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How to Learn Python: Top Sites and Courses, from Beginner to Pro (stxnext.com)

13 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021409 0 comments

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WPF Open Sourcing Update (github.com)

11 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021409 0 comments

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Taboo language turned the wolf into a monster (nautil.us)

11 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021418 9 comments

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Siamese Network on MNIST Dataset (leimao.github.io)

10 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021415 2 comments

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China’s Huawei Charged with Racketeering (www.wsj.com)

10 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021406 0 comments

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Gimp doesn't properly remove image data (gitlab.gnome.org)

10 points first seen 2020021421 last seen 2020021421 0 comments

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Apple’s malware problem is getting worse (www.vox.com)

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CLI Authentication with Auth0 (www.altostra.com)

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Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills (www.newscientist.com)

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Creating a PostgreSQL Procedural Language – Part 2 – Embedding Julia (www.2ndquadrant.com)

7 points first seen 2020021400 last seen 2020021400 0 comments

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What does it take to maintain large open-source projects? (www.welcometothejungle.com)

7 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021406 0 comments

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Web Assembly Summit 2020 (www.youtube.com)

7 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021406 0 comments

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Introduce 7 YouTube channels that uncover the developments in machine learning (towardsdatascience.com)

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2020 State of Malware Report [pdf] (resources.malwarebytes.com)

6 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021500 0 comments

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Urban design often reveals how little we value transit riders (medium.com)

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Part I: The Next Great Online Community (october.substack.com)

6 points first seen 2020021406 last seen 2020021409 0 comments

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ModSecurity Denial of Service Details and PoC CVE-2019-19886 (www.secjuice.com)

6 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021415 0 comments

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Intellectual Dark Matter (medium.com)

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Nevada Democrats to Replace Caucus App with iPads and Google Forms (fivethirtyeight.com)

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Linux is ready for the end of time (www.zdnet.com)

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Why JavaScript Is Eating HTML (css-tricks.com)

5 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021506 0 comments

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California Police Have Been Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data (www.vice.com)

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Court says Melbourne dentist can seek user details from Google over bad review (www.theguardian.com)

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Automatic SSL with Let's Encrypt and Nginx (dev.to)

4 points first seen 2020021403 last seen 2020021403 0 comments

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Aerial Views of Mexico's Dystopian Housing Developments (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2020021412 last seen 2020021412 0 comments

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The High Cost of Homeownership (www.getrichslowly.org)

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Tesla finally returns Autopilot to second-hand Model S owner (thenextweb.com)

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Show HN: ReactJS – Iframe component with maximise to fullscreen button (codepen.io)

3 points first seen 2020021415 last seen 2020021415 0 comments

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Brown Is Context Dependent (www.youtube.com)

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Homomorphic Encryption, Zero Knowledge Proofs, and Post-Quantum Crypto, Oh My (item?id=22323070)

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Vathys (YC W18) Is Hiring a Machine Learning Compiler Engineer (item?id=22323968)

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