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Flexport is hiring senior software engineers to build apps for global trade

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Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for iCloud

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-google-cloud-for-icloud.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465315 Points: 99 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2CntqnB via

An employer asked me to do a HackerRank test. Here's my alternative proposal.

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/fasiha/496d78a3ce9357cdec0a18f919407d2e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465186 Points: 68 # Comments: 88 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2ouQOGa via

Reverse engineering the Gear VR controller

Article URL: http://jsyang.ca/hacks/gear-vr-rev-eng/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464299 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EUT1FR via

Robotics at Harvard

Article URL: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/next-generation-robots-crawl-run-fly-real-world/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-twitter-general Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16462415 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BQ0ROg via

Intel Launches Stratix 10 TX: Leveraging EMIB with 58G Transceivers

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Robotics at Harvard

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Flexport is hiring senior software engineers to build apps for global trade

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An employer asked me to do a HackerRank test. Here's my alternative proposal.

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Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for iCloud

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The eastern coyote, a wild N. American canine with coyote-wolf and dog parentage

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Reverse engineering the Gear VR controller

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Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data

Article URL: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4sfGWX Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465062 Points: 55 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GLBbBA via

Build a Web Chat Component

Article URL: https://medium.com/outsystems-engineering/how-to-build-the-ultimate-reusable-web-chat-component-c9acf3dc5f2b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465007 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2sQvPmP via

Space Aging

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Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data

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Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability (2017)

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Build a Web Chat Component

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Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet service will be IP-less

Article URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/967712110661615616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464844 Points: 32 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/967712110661615616 via

Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learning masters

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609996/googles-self-training-ai-turns-coders-into-machine-learning-masters/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-02-26&utm_campaign=Technology+Review Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464814 Points: 22 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2F4g7t0 via

I've Just Added 2,844 New Data Breaches with 80M Records to Have I Been Pwned

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-added-2844-new-data-breaches-with-80m-records-to-have-i-been-pwned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464335 Points: 40 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2CmLpu7 via

Space Aging

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Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learning masters

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I've Just Added 2,844 New Data Breaches with 80M Records to Have I Been Pwned

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Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet service will be IP-less

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Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us

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Flutter doesn’t need Kotlin (or anything else)

Article URL: https://medium.com/@lukeaf/flutter-doesnt-need-kotlin-or-anything-else-5773965d5905 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464400 Points: 18 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FwOZR9 via

A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/146906/night-vision Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463788 Points: 12 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2oq2XMK via

Ghost Dancers Past and Present

Article URL: https://s-usih.org/2018/02/ghost-dancers-past-and-present/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463514 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2CkqaZU via

Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere

Article URL: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/debussy-the-musical-genius-who-erupted-out-of-nowhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463397 Points: 17 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2sMNwn5 via

The Deep History of Email Scams (2013)

Article URL: http://theappendix.net/posts/2013/10/the-deep-history-of-email-scams Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16462754 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EOUiOR via

Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]

Article URL: http://allthestations.co.uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461196 Points: 10 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2q595fo via

Serverless Security: What's Left to Protect?

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The forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov

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The Deep History of Email Scams (2013)

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Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]

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Ghost Dancers Past and Present

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Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere

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Fedora KDE

Article URL: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464094 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/1FmuMZi via

Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of hardware performance degradation in prod systems

Article URL: https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/26/fail-slow-at-scale-evidence-of-hardware-performance-faults-in-large-production-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463714 Points: 9 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2F7hcjE via

Flutter doesn’t need Kotlin (or anything else)

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Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)

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Fedora KDE

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Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of hardware performance degradation in prod systems

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Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug

Article URL: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/compiler-bug-linker-bug-windows-kernel-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463572 Points: 21 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2oojth2 via

Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug

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How poverty changes your mindset

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We should welcome the advances that are making hospitals less important

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A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)

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Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans

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KaiOS – A Powerful Smartphone Operating System

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What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan

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Mixing Vue.js templates with serverside templates can lead to XSS

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Web application from scratch, part I

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ASCIIToSVG: Convert ASCII Diagrams to Beautiful SVGs

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Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)

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Tinkering with electronics

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Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis

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When to bring in the heavy hitters

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Google Books wins case against authors over putting works online

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Linus Torvalds: EFI Sucks (2012)

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The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism

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Mark Felt-Tipped: Uncovering top-secret information by counting pixels

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Airlines inching closer to dynamic pricing

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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+

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An SVG that always shows today's date

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The History of .NET – Richard Campbell at NDC 2017

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What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System

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The dangerous downsides of perfectionism

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The American midwest is quickly becoming a blue-collar version of Silicon Valley

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Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

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New best story on Hacker News: How poverty changes your mindset

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Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis

Article URL: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-homeless-crisis-overview-20180225-htmlstory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463671 Points: 39 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2CkoAar via

The History of .NET – Richard Campbell at NDC 2017

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Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women-have-periods-What-is-the-evolutionary-benefit-or-purpose-of-having-periods-Why-can%E2%80%99t-women-just-get-pregnant-without-the-menstrual-cycle?share=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463069 Points: 195 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2oqkDbK via

Google Books wins case against authors over putting works online

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/14/google-books-wins-case-authors-online Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16462985 Points: 42 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2cKlVJ0 via

We should welcome the advances that are making hospitals less important

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/hospitals-becoming-obsolete.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16462603 Points: 73 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EQHRlA via

Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-economic-justice/debt-collection-companies-have-hijacked-justice-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16462343 Points: 167 # Comments: 62 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EI8Gs3 via

Mixing Vue.js templates with serverside templates can lead to XSS

Article URL: https://github.com/dotboris/vuejs-serverside-template-xss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461950 Points: 82 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BTB47M via

Linus Torvalds: EFI Sucks (2012)

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How poverty changes your mindset

Article URL: http://review.chicagobooth.edu/behavioral-science/2018/article/how-poverty-changes-your-mind-set Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461773 Points: 357 # Comments: 249 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FesoZj via

What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

Article URL: http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/02/what-is-happening-in-arctic-is-now.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461676 Points: 326 # Comments: 106 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2ovrboE via

ASCIIToSVG: Convert ASCII Diagrams to Beautiful SVGs

Article URL: https://github.com/dhobsd/asciitosvg#asciitosvg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461595 Points: 79 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GJmz61 via

A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)

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The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02148-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461503 Points: 56 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2o6K6H1 via

What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan

Article URL: https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/what-i-learned-advertising-on-youtube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461187 Points: 395 # Comments: 169 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FvMLBD via

KaiOS – A Powerful Smartphone Operating System

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A de Kooning, a Theft and an Enduring Mystery

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/nyregion/a-de-kooning-a-theft-and-an-enduring-mystery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460559 Points: 23 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2wRap8Q via

Tinkering with electronics

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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+

Article URL: http://www.samsung.com/in/smartphones/galaxy-s9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460320 Points: 153 # Comments: 237 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GIBUUc via

When to bring in the heavy hitters

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Airlines inching closer to dynamic pricing

Article URL: http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Airlines-inching-closer-to-dynamic-pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460171 Points: 63 # Comments: 92 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2opni4O via

A de Kooning, a Theft and an Enduring Mystery

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