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How Doctors Die (2013) (www.saturdayeveningpost.com)

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Learn Rust with Entirely Too Many Linked Lists (rust-unofficial.github.io)

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Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me (www.schneier.com)

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Monobloc chair (en.wikipedia.org)

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Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews” (www.jarednelsen.dev)

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My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech (veniqa.com)

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Ubers M3DB, a distributed timeseries database (www.m3db.io)

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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing 'platform manipulation' (www.latimes.com)

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Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (2013) (o.canada.com)

279 points first seen 2020022315 last seen 2020022521 215 comments

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Should you self-host Google Fonts? (www.tunetheweb.com)

278 points first seen 2020022315 last seen 2020022500 150 comments

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Levels of Seniority (roadmap.sh)

252 points first seen 2020022300 last seen 2020022412 147 comments

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Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking (arxiv.org)

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Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available for streaming (soranews24.com)

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Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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The Video Game That Lets You Make Video Games (www.newyorker.com)

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Goodreads Data Pipeline (github.com)

197 points first seen 2020022318 last seen 2020022903 62 comments

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Apple MusicKit JavaScript (developer.apple.com)

192 points first seen 2020022306 last seen 2020022421 41 comments

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Accelerometer can be used to figure out your PIN (www.schneier.com)

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How important are 'economies of scale' in production and innovation? (mattstoller.substack.com)

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Warren Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Shareholders – 2019 [pdf] (www.berkshirehathaway.com)

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Twitter Thread: Experience at Lambda School for UX (twitter.com)

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PipeWire 0.3.0 – JACK compatibility layer with comparable performance to JACK2 (github.com)

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Show HN: Proxyman – native HTTP/HTTPS requests observation and manipulation app (proxyman.io)

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Physicists captured individual atoms and observed them merge into a molecule (www.otago.ac.nz)

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Scroll: Ad-free subscription for news sites (scroll.com)

117 points first seen 2020022309 last seen 2020022409 96 comments

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The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine (github.com)

113 points first seen 2020022309 last seen 2020022406 40 comments

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Fiber – Express inspired web framework written in Go (github.com)

99 points first seen 2020022309 last seen 2020022406 21 comments

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A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis (www.citylab.com)

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Last and First Men (en.wikipedia.org)

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South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (2011) (content.time.com)

84 points first seen 2020022309 last seen 2020022409 67 comments

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Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures (2011) (dirkgorissen.com)

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Languages of the Ottoman Empire (en.wikipedia.org)

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The 1950s LSD Therapy That Changed Cary Grant's Life (www.vulture.com)

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Where is the fashionable mathematics? (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: WeKeep – A spreadsheets-first accounting software (https://www.wekeep.co)

80 points first seen 2020022309 last seen 2020022406 35 comments

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Psychedelic Pioneer and Confidence Man (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Pitch Detection with Convolutional Networks (0xfe.blogspot.com)

78 points first seen 2020022321 last seen 2020022503 25 comments

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DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux (github.com)

75 points first seen 2020022318 last seen 2020022418 67 comments

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Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow (www.latimes.com)

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Fogg Behavior Model (www.behaviormodel.org)

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Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for international Windows users (www.onmsft.com)

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India is the next internet frontier (2018) (edition.cnn.com)

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‘Radical change’ needed after latest neutron star collision (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Let's Build a Simple Database (cstack.github.io)

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One of the Earliest Victims of Internet Bullying (slate.com)

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There’s No Homunculus in Our Brain Who Guides Us (nautil.us)

53 points first seen 2020022303 last seen 2020022406 26 comments

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Lithophone (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure (knightcolumbia.org)

50 points first seen 2020022306 last seen 2020022500 0 comments

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Custom Object Recognition for Non-Developers (www.nedmcclain.com)

49 points first seen 2020022309 last seen 2020022406 0 comments

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Gitlab 12.8 Released with Log Explorer, NuGet, and Compliance (about.gitlab.com)

49 points first seen 2020022315 last seen 2020022406 3 comments

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The Tadpole Paper Mill (scienceintegritydigest.com)

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January was warmest on record for the globe (arstechnica.com)

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Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144 (a16z.com)

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Setting Fairness Goals with the TensorFlow Constrained Optimization Library (ai.googleblog.com)

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Half of Americans Don’t Vote. What Are They Thinking? (www.politico.com)

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Why someone is offering to buy your disabled private SSH key (twitter.com)

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Policy vs. Technology (www.schneier.com)

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Garbage Language Why do corporations speak the way they do? (www.vulture.com)

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Brace yourself, I’m in an expansive mood (2019) (leancrew.com)

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A Handwavey Explanation of Metropolis-Hastings (ncollins.github.io)

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The Design Graph (jxnblk.com)

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[Outdated] LoFi hip hop radio - YouTube channel suspended (mobile.twitter.com)

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Streaming Data Changes to a Data Lake with Debezium and Delta Lake Pipeline (github.com)

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A musician plays the violin during brain surgery (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Reducing Storage Requirements of Mobile Games via Predictive Streaming (2019) [pdf] (engineering.purdue.edu)

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Interviewing at EA Mythic (2006) (seanmountcastle.com)

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No, You Are Not ‘Running Late’, You Are Rude and Selfish (2011) (firebrandtalent.com)

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Health officials worry as untraceable virus clusters emerge (apnews.com)

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Show HN: Epictopus, a Collaborative Writing Platform (epictopus.ml)

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Stack Overflow is leaking user emails (unsafe use of MD5 hashes) (medium.com)

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A PaperMill of (what we assume) fabricated data (twitter.com)

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Show HN: AntiVirus Monitor – GitHub Action to combat false positives (github.com)

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There could be meteors hitting the atmosphere close to the speed of light (phys.org)

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Learn TLA+ (learntla.com)

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There is no luggage storage at any US airport (www.tripadvisor.com)

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What happens when you take 550 doses of LSD at once (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: GitSpo – Monitoring and Analytics for Open-Source Projects (gitspo.com)

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Tech Experts Are Pessimistic About Their Industry (www.theatlantic.com)

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Warren Buffett Has Started the Biggest Energy Revolution (www.forbes.com)

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Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We should hope” the NSA is “reading every email” (theintercept.com)

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Warren Buffett’s 2019 annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)

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Roadmap to becoming a backend developer in 2020 (roadmap.sh)

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Take Care of Code - More and More Code (blog.jessitron.com)

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe (github.com)

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Cloud Native Tools Every Enterprise CTO/CIO Should Have on Their Radar in 2020 (www.nedmcclain.com)

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A Repository of Configurations (dangoldin.com)

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How to Change Anyone's Mind (www.wsj.com)

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