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Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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When baby monitors fail to be smart

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Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

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How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20

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A list of over 4000 fintech startups and companies

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The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance

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Show HN: Headless Chrome Crawler

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How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20

Article URL: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/last-blog-standing-last-guy-dancing-how-jason-kottke-is-thinking-about-kottke-org-at-20/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=87100fce9d-Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-87100fce9d-70267629 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436293 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GBocm5 via

List of 4000+ FinTech Startups and Companies

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Preparing for the "Malicious Uses of AI” by OpenAI, FHI, EFF, Cambridge, +10

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When baby monitors fail to be smart

Article URL: https://www.sec-consult.com/en/blog/2018/02/internet-of-babies-when-baby-monitors-fail-to-be-smart/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436296 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GxaD7a via

Twitter is (finally) cracking down on bots

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/twitter-is-finally-cracking-down-on-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436503 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2sHyzmo via

Twitter is (finally) cracking down on bots

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IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients

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Celebrating 50 years of an unforgettable tale of the desert

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What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

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Lively (YC W17) Is Hiring a Sr. Demand Generation Specialist

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Conservative GC: Is It Really That Bad?

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Why I Collapsed on the Job

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Lively (YC W17) Is Hiring a Sr. Demand Generation Specialist

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‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music

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Conservative GC: Is It Really That Bad?

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Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow Award – Guido van Rossum

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Tool 'names and shames' hidden drug trials

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Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-in-1965-according-to-signs-left-in-the-worlds-loneliest-tree-91993 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435169 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2C849NT via

Bijlmer: City of the Future, Part 1

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Why I Collapsed on the Job

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Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow Award – Guido van Rossum

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Tool 'names and shames' hidden drug trials

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Bijlmer: City of the Future, Part 1

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Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’

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Simple, Upstream, and Decisive: A Heuristic for Medical Progress

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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe

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Advertisers Tuning Out TV

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-14/advertisers-tuning-out-tv-in-sign-of-trouble-for-media-companies?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=87100fce9d-Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-87100fce9d-70267629 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436302 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EXGlxa via

Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/02/21/snips-uses-rust-embedded-voice-assistant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436164 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2HwTyLP via

Networked Physics in Virtual Reality

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Advertisers Tuning Out TV

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Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant

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Darwin’s Polar Bear

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Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection

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Networked Physics in Virtual Reality

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Semantic Import Versioning

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Show HN: Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key

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The Great Puri.sm Outage of 2018

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I don’t understand Graph Theory

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What to care about in a job

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Signal Foundation

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Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes

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"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

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SaaS Conversion Rates from Free Trial

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Electron 2.0.0 beta

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The new breed of chatbot talks more like a human, but that is not always good

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Programming ARM μC in Rust at four different levels of abstraction

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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs

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Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts

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Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

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TetraScience (YC S15) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers to Make Science Better

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Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

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Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Camera

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Many patent holders stop looking to East Texas following Supreme Court ruling

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Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ by Newcomers

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Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures [pdf]

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DLVM: A modern compiler framework for neural network DSLs

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Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]

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Show HN: Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key

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Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection

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Process of Elimination

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Google Pay app for Android

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Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

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You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain

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Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Implementing a Gaussian Naive Bayes Classifier in Python

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Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011)

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Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming

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New best story on Hacker News: "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

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New best story on Hacker News: Signal Foundation

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New best story on Hacker News: Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

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TetraScience (YC S15) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers to Make Science Better

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Electron 2.0.0 beta

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What to care about in a job

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SaaS Conversion Rates from Free Trial

Article URL: https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/691/what-is-the-general-conversion-rate-from-free-tria.html?src=HN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435426 Points: 25 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2HyBvVE via

Process of Elimination

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Programming ARM μC in Rust at four different levels of abstraction

Article URL: http://pramode.in/2018/02/20/programming-a-microcontroller-in-rust-at-four-levels-of-abstraction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435332 Points: 21 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2HwK0QT via

I don’t understand Graph Theory

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You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain

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Google Pay app for Android

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Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-laser-wirelessly-smartphone-safely-room.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435009 Points: 13 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EROt2b via

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

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Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts

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Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes

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Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]

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Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures [pdf]

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DLVM: A modern compiler framework for neural network DSLs

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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs

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To Give A.I. The Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You

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Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ by Newcomers

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Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011)

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