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Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union

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Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags

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How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update

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New research detects brain cell that improves learning

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The Mac the Myth the Legend: How Snow Leopard Became Synonymous with Reliability

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Stateless Network Functions (2017) [pdf]

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FAA pushes back on Boeing exemption for 787 safety flaw

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How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)

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Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union

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GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.15.0 released

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Come Join Us the Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager

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Income mobility has been rising fastest in Britain

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Google’s Duplex Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers

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Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags

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The Mac the Myth the Legend: How Snow Leopard Became Synonymous with Reliability

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Stateless Network Functions (2017) [pdf]

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Facebook removed the US Declaration of Independence for violating hate speech

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FAA pushes back on Boeing exemption for 787 safety flaw

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How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)

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How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update

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New research detects brain cell that improves learning

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GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.15.0 released

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Where has income mobility been rising fastest? Britain

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Come Join Us the Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager

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Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue

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Google Is Reportedly Looking to Take Over Call Centers W/ Duplex AI Assistant

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How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

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A graph of programming languages connected through compilers

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Show HN: Hacker job trends

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Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021

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How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

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Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021

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New best story on Hacker News: WebSub: Open protocol for distributed pub–sub communication on the internet

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A graph of programming languages connected through compilers

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Show HN: Hacker job trends

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Terry Gilliam on diversity: 'I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian'

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How PEP-572 would change the standard library

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How PEP-572 would change the standard library

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Celluloid: Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby

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EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies

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Sex and Sexuality

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Sex and Sexuality

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EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/05/eu-parliament-calls-for-privacy-shield-to-be-pulled-until-us-complies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17467965 Points: 20 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2tXAmlq via

India’s ruling party accused of $12B Bitcoin scam by opposition

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Celluloid: Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby

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Flaws in diamonds might hold the key to a new type of secure communications

Article URL: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/07/05/implanting-diamonds-flaws-provide-key-technology-quantum-communications Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17466908 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zgiZBb via

Something about functions in Bash (2017)

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Flaws in diamonds might hold the key to a new type of secure communications

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Ask HN: How do you organise and discover your team's internal scripts?

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New best story on Hacker News: Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

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New best story on Hacker News: Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

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California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

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Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

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Codius – Open Hosting Protocol

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Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi

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Job-hopping increases, in possible boon to wage growth and productivity

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Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth

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Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services

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The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

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Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?

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A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

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The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks

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The Electric Flight of Spiders

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Electricity’s role in the ballooning abilities of spiders

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“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning Representations”

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Show HN: Software to give insurance advice like an agent would

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Survival of the Richest

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Reddit will top $100M in Revenue this Year

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VrankenFuzz – a multi-sensor, multi-generator mutational fuzz testing engine [pdf]

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Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0

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Farmizen lets urbanites play FarmVille on real agricultural land (2017)

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The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions

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Something about functions in Bash (2017)

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The story of Denmark's rebel cakes

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Mathematical Metaphysics (2015) [pdf]

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The Rise of Edible Insect Farming

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The Fred Rogers We Know

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New best story on Hacker News: California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

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New best story on Hacker News: Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach

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The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

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Reddit will top $100M in Revenue this Year

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Hiring engineers to help change education at Clever (YC S12)

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Codius – Open Hosting Protocol

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Survival of the Richest

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“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning Representations”

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VrankenFuzz – a multi-sensor, multi-generator mutational fuzz testing engine [pdf]

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Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi

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Electricity’s role in the ballooning abilities of spiders

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Farmizen lets urbanites play FarmVille on real agricultural land (2017)

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Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?

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The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks

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Job-hopping increases, in possible boon to wage growth and productivity

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Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

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Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services

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Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth

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The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/40588729/the-air-force-learned-to-code-and-saved-the-pentagon-millions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17466065 Points: 197 # Comments: 77 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zeVhW0 via

Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0

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A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/a-double-first-in-china-for-advanced-nuclear-reactors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17465901 Points: 98 # Comments: 74 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2KRXzim via

California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

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