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A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
(www.youtube.com)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
(item?id=24038520)
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Thomas Sowell, the Nonconformist
(www.city-journal.org)
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The Art of Not Thinking to Get Things Done
(tiffanymatthe.com)
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The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
(underjord.io)
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Browse the Web with Your Voice
(voice.mozilla.org)
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels
(www.designedbycave.co.uk)
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
(www.thelawproject.com.au)
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System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution
(systemuicons.com)
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Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
(https://starboard.gg)
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
(item?id=24038518)
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Why Is America Stuck with Bad Headlights?
(www.caranddriver.com)
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Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A all at once
(www.theverge.com)
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Django 3.1
(www.djangoproject.com)
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Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets
(item?id=24037118)
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We Need to Talk About Ventilation
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Cops Can Track Your Phone
(theintercept.com)
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Julia 1.5
(julialang.org)
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One-Third of New York’s Small Businesses May Be Gone Forever
(www.nytimes.com)
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Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
(www.reuters.com)
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Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study
(news.berkeley.edu)
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Blizzard Workers Share Salaries in Revolt over Wage Disparities
(www.bloomberg.com)
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The saboteurs you can hire to end your relationship
(www.bbc.com)
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
(www.infoq.com)
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The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple
(www.bbc.com)
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Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
(www.reuters.com)
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Justice Department Is Scrutinizing Takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit, TurboTax
(www.propublica.org)
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Racket v7.8
(blog.racket-lang.org)
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New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation
(thenewstack.io)
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Thoughts on Voice Interfaces
(www.ianbicking.org)
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C++: Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust
(thenewstack.io)
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Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture
(www.quantamagazine.org)
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U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes
(www.reuters.com)
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A gentle intro to assembly with Rust
(lfn3.net)
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OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation
(github.com)
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Astronomers solve the missing baryon problem
(astronomy.com)
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TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
(500ish.com)
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TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs
(medium.com)
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How to build great products (2013)
(www.defmacro.org)
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PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
(blog.roboflow.ai)
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Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence
(www.cebm.net)
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DeepDream: Alexander Mordvintsev Excavated the Computer’s Hidden Layers
(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics
(blog.stephenmarz.com)
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An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits
(formcake.com)
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Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison
(brendancahill.io)
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Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
(syncedreview.com)
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Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
(www.nature.com)
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Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis
(www.dailymail.co.uk)
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Court Ruling Clears Way for Energy Storage on the Grid. Who Benefits?
(www.forbes.com)
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The mine that built the atomic bomb
(www.bbc.com)
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25 comments
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Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf]
(static.googleusercontent.com)
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Google Pixel 4a
(store.google.com)
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Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a
(ai.googleblog.com)
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Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
(medium.com)
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“How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed” by Terence Tao [pdf]
(www.ams.org)
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Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool
(cuchi.me)
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Open Source PCR Thermocycler
(openpcr.org)
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)
(item?id=24038519)
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Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux
(pitayan.com)
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40 comments
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OpenDyslexic: A Typeface for Dyslexia
(www.opendyslexic.org)
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Harry Potter and the Mnemonic Major System
(darkshadow.io)
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OneLook – Dictionary Search with Wildcards
(onelook.com)
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Coronavirus ravages California’s Central Valley, following a cruel familiar path
(www.latimes.com)
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Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text
(011.video)
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Implementing UFCS for C++ in Clang
(dancrn.com)
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One year of automatic DB migrations from Git
(abe-winter.github.io)
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New analysis method predicts disruptive solar flares
(phys.org)
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“Hiding” network latency for fast memory in data centers
(news.engin.umich.edu)
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MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
(www.theguardian.com)
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New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential therapies for Covid-19
(spectrum.ieee.org)
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A super quick rundown on SEO
(www.entreprenerd.blog)
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How to Pretend That You Are Smart
(www.currentaffairs.org)
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Baby boomers show concerning decline in cognitive functioning
(news.osu.edu)
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China will not accept U.S. 'theft' of TikTok: China Daily
(www.reuters.com)
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Boon. Says Goodbye
(www.beboon.com)
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My Life Pouring Concrete
(quillette.com)
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Trump Says U.S. Should Get Slice of TikTok Sale Price
(www.wsj.com)
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Silicon Valley investor tries to create 'microschool' in yard, backlash ensues
(www.sfgate.com)
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Richard Feynman's Perspective of Life
(twitter.com)
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6 comments
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Zero Downtime Release: Disruption-Free Load Balancing of Multi-Billion User Site [pdf]
(www.dropbox.com)
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The Story of Tailwind
(twitter.com)
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Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US
(arstechnica.com)
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New official DIN standard for Open Source Hardware in Germany (German)
(netzpolitik.org)
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Tell HN: the word "Niger" (the country) seems blocked in Venmo memos
(item?id=24042742)
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Ask HN: How do you build up your first career close to age 40?
(item?id=24047007)
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Cleverer Automata Exist
(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
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University to require residents wear ‘BioButton, to track health
(www.clickondetroit.com)
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United Airlines Plans to Resume Service on More Than 25 International Routes
(kokpitherald.com)
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Homeland Security Is Quietly Tying Antifa to Foreign Powers
(www.thenation.com)
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Google to partner with BankMobile to offer digital bank accounts
(www.globenewswire.com)
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Detection of Rapidly Growing Informal Settlements
(github.com)
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How Tencent PCG Uses Apache Kafka to Handle 10T+ Messages per Day
(www.confluent.io)
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Masks Do More Than Protect Others: Reducing the Inoculum to Protect Wearers
(link.springer.com)
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Awesome Knowledge Management
(github.com)
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Leadership Development Is a $366B Industry: Most Programs Don't Work
(www.forbes.com)
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ProtonMail founder: Apple uses monopoly to “hold all of us hostage”
(arstechnica.com)
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Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
(www.theregister.com)
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Study: Experiencing Childhood Trauma Makes Body and Brain Age Faster
(www.apa.org)
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New York Times ordered 59M publishing assets on a laptop using Go
(open.nytimes.com)
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UC Berkeley boosts Latino admissions by 40% in one year
(news.berkeley.edu)
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Microsoft to Stop Supporting Office 2016 for Mac in October
(www.macrumors.com)
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Turnitin and the Debate over Anti-Plagiarism Software (2014)
(www.npr.org)
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An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule
(adit.co.uk)
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GPT3 → Dataset → Task Model?
(www.notion.so)
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The challenges of hydrogen for airliners, part 2: ecosystem
(leehamnews.com)
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Trump signs order against hiring H1B visa holders for federal contracts
(www.thehindu.com)
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Why Are So Many People on Capitol Hill Getting Infected?
(www.nytimes.com)
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Virgin Galactic reveals initial vehicle design for high speed travel
(www.virgin.com)
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Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic pain
(www.theguardian.com)
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Trump: Microsoft should pay ‘key money’ to Treasury for facilitating TikTok deal
(www.cnbc.com)
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Profitably Unemployed
(blogofjake.com)
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Microsoft’s TikTok buyout would cover every Five Eyes nation other than the UK
(tech.newstatesman.com)
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Persuasion on networks
(www.nber.org)
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August 1, 1981: The Launch of MTV Kills the Radio Star
(www.thestreet.com)
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Introudction to Ansible Playbooks
(medium.com)
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Remains of a 10ft tall woolly mammoth had soft tissue, skin attached to bones
(www.dailymail.co.uk)
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SpaceX now plans for 5M Starlink customers in US, up from 1M
(arstechnica.com)
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Cost optimization on Google Cloud for developers and operators
(cloud.google.com)
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Why We Don't Learn from Experience
(medium.com)
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Steve Jobs Insult Response – Highest Quality
(www.youtube.com)
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This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Google Pixel 4a: Everything you need to know
(www.androidcentral.com)
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Twitter warns Bitcoin scam security breach could lead to $250M FTC fine
(www.cnbc.com)
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Enabling the Stripe and Lyft Platforms Through Modern Safety Science
(www.blameless.com)
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Artificial Intelligence Identifies Prostate Cancer with Near-Perfect Accuracy
(scitechdaily.com)
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What RN is missing in order to be the default framework to build apps
(ospfranco.github.io)
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Migrating big astronomy data to the cloud
(www.nature.com)
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SpaceX Dragon Endeavour Splashdown in 4K
(www.youtube.com)
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Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Ask HN: How do I find a career path?
(item?id=24044773)
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How to Improve On-Call with Better Practices and Tools
(www.blameless.com)
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women survivors of the atomic bombs
(www.bbc.com)
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Ray Dalio: Changing World Order, Big Cycle of the US & the Dollar Ch4 Pt1
(www.linkedin.com)
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Why Microsoft Wants TikTok
(www.theverge.com)
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A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
(youtu.be)
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How I Learn Difficult Skills – My Quest to Photograph a Galaxy
(www.youtube.com)
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Netflix Seeks Its Own Star Wars, Harry Potter-Esque Movie Franchise
(www.cbr.com)
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The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities
(intenseminimalism.com)
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Lazarus (a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE)
(www.lazarus-ide.org)
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C O M P U T E R 1.0 – Textile display By Victoria Manganiello and Julian Goldman
(vimeo.com)
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The Second Act of Social-Media Activism
(www.newyorker.com)
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Scientists inspired by 'Star Wars' create artificial skin able to feel
(www.reuters.com)
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China's ByteDance to consider international HQ for TikTok, outside U.S.
(www.reuters.com)
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OneSignal (Messaging and Push Notification APIs) is hiring a full stack engineer
(onesignal.com)
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Enzyme (YC S17) is hiring a DevOps Engineer to speed up FDA approval
(angel.co)
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