hackerNews

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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison (twitter.com)

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USB-C Was Supposed to Simplify Our Lives. Instead, It’s a Total Mess (debugger.medium.com)

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My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf (www.reddit.com)

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We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Escaping strings in Bash using !:q (til.simonwillison.net)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020) (item?id=24651639)

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Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us (www.persuasion.community)

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Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later (www.flatkill.org)

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Warren Buffett says the most successful people say no to almost everything (www.inc.com)

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Japan’s Lost Generation Is Still Jobless and Living with Their Parents (www.bloomberg.com)

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Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find (www.cbc.ca)

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A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir (serokell.io)

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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop (www.wired.co.uk)

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Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity (phys.org)

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Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more (www.niemanlab.org)

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US Caste Dialogue (www.npr.org)

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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 (joel.net)

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Google pub/sub released an ordering feature (cloud.google.com)

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Commodore 64 Program Discovered on 35-Year Old Vinyl Album (popcultureretrorama.com)

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Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco (www.forbes.com)

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Swift Atomics (swift.org)

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United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden (www.justice.gov)

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8

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020) (item?id=24651637)

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Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data (puri.sm)

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Germany fines H&M 35 million euros for data protection breaches (www.marketscreener.com)

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Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged (www.justice.gov)

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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement (sfconservancy.org)

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MobX 6 (michel.codes)

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Covid-19 can damage hearts of some college athletes (directorsblog.nih.gov)

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Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code (blogs.windows.com)

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Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada (npe.fb.com)

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Spamtoberfest (drewdevault.com)

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Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3 (github.com)

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The internet needs our love (blog.mozilla.org)

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The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs (marker.medium.com)

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Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions (bernsteinbear.com)

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Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (damieng.com)

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Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use? (item?id=24658424)

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Segment Tree – Competitive Programming Algorithms (cp-algorithms.com)

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Programming Language notation is a Barrier to Entry (blog.sigplan.org)

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Bob Murray, Who Fought Regulations as a Coal Operator, Files for Lung Benefits (www.wvpublic.org)

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C Programming on System 6 (jcs.org)

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Unfck the Internet (firefox.com)

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Transport Tycoon (a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer) (lifeandtimes.games)

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Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF (https://pixielabs.ai)

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Tracking Mixed Bitcoins (arxiv.org)

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US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter (www.bbc.com)

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Web Neural Network API (webmachinelearning.github.io)

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Declarative Shadow DOM (web.dev)

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Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: How to Get into the Chip Industry (item?id=24649959)

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What does I/O bound mean? (erikengbrecht.blogspot.com)

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For reliable excess returns, VC funds need 500 investments (www.institutionalinvestor.com)

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Big O, Little N (adamzerner.bearblog.dev)

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ExamSoft's remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns (venturebeat.com)

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RTX3090 TensorFlow, NAMD and HPCG Performance on Linux (www.pugetsystems.com)

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Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 100 (wildbit.com)

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I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III (gizmodo.com)

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E-6B Mercury airborne command just went active on east/west coasts (twitter.com)

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GDPR Enforcement Tracker (www.enforcementtracker.com)

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If a Presidential Candidate Dies or Is Incapacitated Before Election Day (electionlawblog.org)

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Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model (www.macrumors.com)

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My prof gave me zero because ProctorU Review+ said that I was talking (twitter.com)

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Lossless Compression of English Short Messages (bellard.org)

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Discovery Suggests the Solar System Has Two Planes of Orbital Alignment (www.sciencealert.com)

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Asteroids: By the Numbers (www.retrogamedeconstructionzone.com)

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Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds (www.cnet.com)

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Show HN: Hacktoberfix, Fix your October already (github.com)

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Memgraph DB 1.1 Up to 50% Better Memory Usage and Higher Throughput (memgraph.com)

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A Computer Dungeon Slash Postmortem (museumofzzt.com)

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Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change? [video] (ourworldindata.org)

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Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools? (www.atlasobscura.com)

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AWS Is Not Your Ideal (sujithjay.com)

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Node.js malware caught posting IPs, username, and device info on GitHub (securityreport.com)

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Copper: A statically-typed, loose syntax programming language (github.com)

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US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told (www.theguardian.com)

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EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement (www.theguardian.com)

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Programmers need to think like hackers (gexos.org)

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New Mojave Supplemental Update released that fixes issues caused by older update (mrmacintosh.com)

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America Is About to Enter Its Years of Lead (foreignpolicy.com)

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Americans Increasingly Believe Violence Is Justified If the Other Side Wins (www.politico.com)

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San Francisco's only cat cafe struggles to stay open (www.sfgate.com)

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Stealing Valuable Art (www.delanceyplace.com)

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Microsoft says ‘configuration update’ caused global Outlook outage (www.cnbc.com)

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The Grand Design (2010) (blas.com)

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The Technium: The Unabomber Was Right (2009) (kk.org)

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Update on Covid-19 Testing - Amazon reports over 19,000 cases (blog.aboutamazon.com)

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Google to Pay Publishers over $1B for News Content (www.bloomberg.com)

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Archives of the Bell Laboratories Record (1925-1961) (worldradiohistory.com)

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Reddit accidentally banned hundreds of accounts connected to IFTTT (www.androidpolice.com)

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Shitoberfest (twitter.com)

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GitHub: You can now limit interactions with your project for a period of time (twitter.com)

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Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat (www.schneier.com)

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Asus PN50 mini PC with Ryzen 7 4700U now available in the US (liliputing.com)

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Update on our commitment to reducing spam in Hacktoberfest (hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com)

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Dick Costolo: Some Business Leaders Should Face a Firing Squad (www.forbes.com)

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When did Hacktoberfest become Spamtoberfest? (www.youtube.com)

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The Jargon File (jargon-file.org)

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CFTC charges BitMex with illegally operating derivatives exchange (cointelegraph.com)

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Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency (www.fastcompany.com)

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Form Follows Function: On Louis Sullivan’s Kindergarten Chats (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Show HN: I made a screen recorder for developers (https://vasai.app)

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KubeSat: An autonomous framework for satellite constellations and swarms (github.com)

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Employee Works for Both Google and Facebook from Home (mobile.twitter.com)

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ProtonMail Statement regarding BGP hijacking on September 29 (protonmail.com)

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Amazon said nearly 20k workers got coronavirus (www.cnn.com)

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Thoughts About Mario on Super Mario’s 35th Anniversary (www.nytimes.com)

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Visualizing the 200-Year History of U.S. Interest Rates (advisor.visualcapitalist.com)

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Show HN: Automatic Tagging for Terraform (github.com)

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SF and NYC Tech Workers Are Moving to LA During Covid, Driving Housing Up 17% (dot.la)

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Using artificial intelligence to make publishing profitable (www.aiplusinfo.com)

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HacktoberFest: You are encouraging spam and creating noise (twitter.com)

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Windows run x64 app in arm mode soon (arstechnica) (arstechnica.com)

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Covid: Donald Trump and Melania test positive (www.bbc.com)

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QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Writer (questdb.io)

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