hackerNews

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More bosses give 4-day workweek a try (www.npr.org)

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Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech (newatlas.com)

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Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him (petapixel.com)

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Discord is not an acceptable choice for Free Software projects (sneak.berlin)

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Professor Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra (ocw.mit.edu)

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QEMU for iOS (github.com)

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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering (stackoverflow.blog)

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Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study (www.thelancet.com)

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Google resists giving up documents in investigation of anticompetitive practices (www.wsj.com)

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The Bash Hackers Wiki (wiki.bash-hackers.org)

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Maryam Mirzakhani (en.wikipedia.org)

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FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) for feedback on net neutrality (www.theregister.co.uk)

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GitHub Discussions Beta (github.com)

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Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018) (github.com)

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OCaml 4.10 Released (discuss.ocaml.org)

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Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest browser build despite privacy concerns (www.theregister.co.uk)

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AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design? (forum.level1techs.com)

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Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City' (www.citylab.com)

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Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as fbclid utm parameters (github.com)

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SQL query to generate the Mandelbrot Set as ASCII-art (sqlite.org)

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Quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots (www.theguardian.com)

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Challenges with distributed systems (aws.amazon.com)

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Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards (github.com)

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Data Scientists Get All the Glamour But, Wow, Is There a Need for Data Engineers (thenewstack.io)

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Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings (greece.greekreporter.com)

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Does register selection matter to performance on x86 CPUs? (fiigii.com)

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Amb (rosettacode.org)

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Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install (www.techradar.com)

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Is ReasonML good by itself or the underlying OCaml the source of awesomeness? (marmelab.com)

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Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo (www.nytimes.com)

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Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative (item?id=22384680)

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People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets (www.economist.com)

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JP Morgan economists warn of 'catastrophic' climate change (www.bbc.com)

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Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device (www.reuters.com)

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2

Interview with Wayne Ratliff, Author of DBase (1986) (www.foxprohistory.org)

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Riot OS – Real-Time, MMU optional and threads (https://www.riot-os.org)

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Little Ideas (www.collaborativefund.com)

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Giant Phages: a discovery in the world of viruses (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code (johtela.github.io)

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Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book (github.com)

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Forcing consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech (www.theregister.co.uk)

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A Windows feature which can result in bypassing User Group Policy (medium.com)

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Web Programming in SWI Prolog (www.monolune.com)

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Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning (www.nature.com)

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Mexico City's 'Walking Fish' (www.bbc.com)

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To create a new category, name a new game (www.linkedin.com)

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Show HN: Free startup ideas, analysis, validation and first steps (item?id=22386585)

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Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped (2019) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Fake Goods Sold by AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish (www.cbc.ca)

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Paramedical Tattoos (www.nytimes.com)

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Babashka: A quick example (juxt.pro)

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Researchers at McAfee tricked two Teslas into autonomously speeding up by 50 MPH (www.businessinsider.fr)

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Show HN: Kubenav – An open source mobile app to manage Kubernetes cluster (github.com)

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California Legislature Proposes a Universal Basic Income Program (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

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Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought' (www.theguardian.com)

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JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race (www.theguardian.com)

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Artificial shrimps could change the world (www.economist.com)

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P-hacked hypotheses are deceivingly robust (2016) (datacolada.org)

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Thinking Journeys rather than Estimates (riskfirst.org)

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High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population (advances.sciencemag.org)

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Detecting manuscripts and publications from paper mills (febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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LiveUSB builder with ROS (Robot Operating System) installed (github.com)

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Creator of YOLO and SSD algorithm stopped CV research due to ethical concerns (twitter.com)

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When Einstein Was Bohemian (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Show HN: Low code Jupyter Notebook alternative with dashboards (github.com)

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Safari Will Stop Accepting HTTPS Certificates That Last Longer Than 13 Months (www.macobserver.com)

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SQLite Query to Solve Sudoku (sqlite.org)

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The beginner's guide to Linux terminals, tty, pty and shell (dev.to)

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Private WhatsApp groups visible in Google searches (www.dw.com)

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Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google services (support.google.com)

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Oracle employees walk out over Ellison’s Trump fundraiser (arstechnica.com)

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DrDrunkenstein’s (Magnus Carlsen) Reign of Terror (slate.com)

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The iPhone at the Deathbed (www.nytimes.com)

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Why Cruise Ships Are a Bad Place to Quarantine Coronavirus Patients (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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For-profit firm seeking to run .org names makes concessions (apnews.com)

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Gitlab is down (status.gitlab.com)

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What is O(log n)? Learn Big O Logarithmic Time Complexity (dev.to)

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Real ID application documents can be submitted online, DHS says (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: A Credit Card Scanner Using Vision Framework in iOS (github.com)

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What can we do to fight corrupt governments? (item?id=22382198)

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Coronavirus patients flew to US after CDC “explicitly recommended against it” (arstechnica.com)

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Irish drug dealer loses £46m Bitcoin codes he hid in fishing rod case (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: How to get started with DSLs and meta-programming? (item?id=22382199)

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Type Witnesses in Haskell (serokell.io)

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GPT-2 trained VC parody Twitter (twitter.com)

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Announcing TypeScript 3.8 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (2011) (apenwarr.ca)

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Coronavirus 'could cost global economy $1.1tn in lost income' (www.theguardian.com)

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Raspberry Pi 4 Strides Towards ServerReady Status via SBBR (www.hackster.io)

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Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome (www.forbes.com)

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Peru recovers priceless Inca manuscript stolen during occupation (www.france24.com)

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'Magic mushroom' drug reduces anxiety and depression in cancer patients (www.cnn.com)

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Don't use low-fidelity prototypes to test desirability (brettcvz.com)

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Ill-fitting gear puts female firefighters at risk, but that’s changing (www.theverge.com)

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How Low Can Solar Cells Go? Perovskite Researchers Say Down, Down (cleantechnica.com)

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Templates and Logic – Building SaaS #45 · Matt Layman (www.mattlayman.com)

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I criticized ‘South Park’ for spawning a generation of trolls (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Thoughts on Performance and Optimization (drewdevault.com)

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Russian Hackers Can Be US Hackers with Servers in Russia (item?id=22389769)

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Show HN: Darknet.py – A TOR Transparent Proxy Written in Python (github.com)

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Google Removes 600 Android Apps for Displaying Disruptive Ads (www.securityweek.com)

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Jupiter (YC S19) Is Hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer in San Francisco (angel.co)

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