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New Copyright Directive: Tension rises in anticipation of vote

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Fed rate hikes don't affect the US dollar the way we think

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An Open Source Release of the Freedom U540-C000's Bootloader (RISC-V Board)

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New Copyright Directive: Tension rises in anticipation of vote

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Tesla’s Chief Accounting Officer Leaves After Just One Month

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An Open Source Release of the Freedom U540-C000's Bootloader (RISC-V Board)

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Fed rate hikes don't affect the US dollar the way we think

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Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (2015) [pdf]

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Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (2015) [pdf]

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Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

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WireMock

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Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-farmers-glaciers-profoundly-earth.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933380 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MWfQ00 via

Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open sourced clipboard manager for windows

Clipboard Plus is a Windows utility to view and manage the Windows clipboard. Download : https://github.com/oormicreations/ClipboardPlus/releases It maintains and can display up to five copied items or clips. Clicking on a clip loads it back into the clipboard and it is ready for pasting into another application. You can clear or save individual clips or all clips by clicking on the corresponding menu items. You can edit the clips and open urls directly from the clipboard plus. The clips can be added to sticky clips, which is like a built in sticky notes with reminders etc. You can enable or disable password mode. When enabled, it masks the copied passwords. You can minimize the Clipboard Plus window to the tray. This tiny but useful utility is completely free and open sourced. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933145 Points: 18 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Np2OHS via

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate

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Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open sourced clipboard manager for windows

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A Behavioral Economist Tries to Fix Email (2017)

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Computing Before Computers (1990)

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Amplemarket (YC W14) Seeks Software Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal

Amplemarket.com is a Y Combinator-backed fast-growing tech startup with headquarters in San Francisco and Lisbon, Portugal. We are looking for a software engineer to join our team in Lisbon. We have a preference for a full stack developer with a focus on frontend (not mandatory). This is a unique opportunity to work with a team of MIT-alumni that built other great projects like fermatslibrary.com. If interested, please email team@amplemarket.com. Some things about this position: - Work directly with the co-founders - Lots of autonomy and impact - Competitive salary and equity - Ship new features every week - Our stack: Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch Perks: - Join a fast growing startup - Opportunities to grow within the company - Competitive salary - Annual paid trip to headquarters in San Francisco Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933015 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wOWXkx via

Try OCaml

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How Spam Filtering Works: From SPF to DKIM to Blacklists

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New best story on Hacker News: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Try OCaml

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Amplemarket (YC W14) Seeks Software Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal

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Company using Mechanical Turk botches U.S. Senate campaign finance records

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The First Quieter Megacity, Thanks to Electric Vehicles

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-30/shenzhen-the-first-quieter-megacity-thanks-to-electric-vehicles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17932762 Points: 18 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NzDZG5 via

Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast-cheap-internetone-billionaire-changed-all-that-1536159916 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17932688 Points: 26 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MMfXLw via

Keybase's browser extension subverts its encryption

Article URL: https://palant.de/2018/09/06/keybase-our-browser-extension-subverts-our-encryption-but-why-should-we-care Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17932125 Points: 53 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wPOGNg via

Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/startups-flock-to-turn-young-blood-into-an-elixir-of-youth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929462 Points: 27 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wKXKUI via

Go says Wat

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The First Quieter Megacity, Thanks to Electric Vehicles

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Two Yrs Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet–One Billionaire Changed All That

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Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame (2013)

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Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth

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Keybase:“Our browser extension subverts our encryption, but why should we care?”

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Why we needed Redux in the past, and don’t any more

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/goodbye-redux-26e6a27b3a0b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17932270 Points: 25 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2oOJt4V via

PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring engineers to build the future of healthcare

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Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/06/huawei-caught-cheating-performance-test-for-new-phones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931549 Points: 166 # Comments: 64 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wQLoJJ via

Tech companies in San Francisco

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Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files

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Material Design 2.0 in React Native with React Native Paper

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Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheryl-sandberg-leans-into-a-gale-of-bad-news-at-facebook-1536085230 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930444 Points: 76 # Comments: 62 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wIdKGI via

Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-06/don-t-steal-money-from-day-traders-before-they-lose-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930318 Points: 151 # Comments: 113 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CtESyA via

Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/06/whole-foods-workers-seek-to-unionize-says-amazon-is-exploiting-our-dedication/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929840 Points: 357 # Comments: 268 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Cyscq6 via

Lehigh research team to investigate a “Google for research data”

Article URL: https://www.lehigh.edu/engineering/news/faculty/2018/20180820-davison-heflin-jia-dataset-search-engine-nsf-award.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929766 Points: 65 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MCZsR4 via

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video]

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Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel [pdf]

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Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives

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Blame Emergency Rooms for the Out-Of-Control Cost of Health Care

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Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara

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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses

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Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

Article URL: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972 Points: 1227 # Comments: 693 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/CsbsCo via

The Servers Are Burning

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PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/09/06/pagerduty-funding-billion-dollar-valuation/#68e79889411d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927788 Points: 162 # Comments: 91 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/DqmWVo via

Groq, a Stealthy Startup Founded by Google’s TPU Team, Is Raising $60M

Article URL: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/groq-a-stealthy-startup-founded-by-googles-tpu-team-is-raising-60m/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927758 Points: 102 # Comments: 62 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MSHriz via

Zero overhead deterministic failure: A unified mechanism for C and C++ [pdf]

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SmartAsset (YC S12) Is Hiring a Sr. Software Engineer in NYC

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Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/04/first-eight-bird-extinctions-of-the-21st-century-confirmed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915740 Points: 39 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Cs2ST1 via

How true hackers write JavaScript

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Measuring the memory usage of popular web apps

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Punctuation Restoration With Recurrent Neural Networks

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How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics

Article URL: https://dave.cheney.net/2018/05/29/how-the-go-runtime-implements-maps-efficiently-without-generics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915371 Points: 156 # Comments: 69 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2kyQeW8 via

Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data

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How to Make a Big Decision

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‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/us/politics/government-access-encrypted-data.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914935 Points: 256 # Comments: 131 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NO9sV0 via

Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

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Show HN: Interactive Calculus via LaTeX

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New best story on Hacker News: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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New best story on Hacker News: Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

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New best story on Hacker News: GIMP receives a $100K donation

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Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Why we needed Redux in the past, and don’t any more

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What drives IPv6 deployment?

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Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

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Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It

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Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives

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Tech companies in San Francisco

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Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns

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Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files

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Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

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Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

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A rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery

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PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation

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Material Design 2.0 in React Native with React Native Paper

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PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring engineers to build the future of healthcare

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How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video]

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Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Blame Emergency Rooms for the Out-Of-Control Cost of Health Care

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Show HN: Py-spy – A new sampling profiler for Python programs

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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses

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Lehigh research team to investigate a “Google for research data”

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Breaking Bad News

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Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel [pdf]

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The Servers Are Burning

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Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara

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REPL + Debugger = REPLugger: a pleasant and scalable live code editor

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Groq, a Stealthy Startup Founded by Google’s TPU Team, Is Raising $60M

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A Long Peek into Reinforcement Learning

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On compositionality (2017)

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