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Aaron Swartz's Website is offline

When growing up Aaron Swartz's blog post series Raw Nerve was one of the most influential readings of mine, the website that hosted them is now down: https://ift.tt/NMITif Here is the archived version of it: http://archive.is/8uu5x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648127 Points: 7 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2UxQTZ1 via

Aaron Swartz's Website is offline

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A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See

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Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims

Article URL: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043 Points: 12 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2E0GWNP via

Qualcomm wins import ban against several Apple iPhones in China

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-apple/qualcomm-wins-import-ban-against-several-apple-iphones-in-china-idUSKBN1O91LD Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648042 Points: 11 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2G70HFW via

Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims

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Qualcomm wins import ban against several Apple iPhones in China

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Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/12/08/lessons-from-the-fall-of-a-great-republic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643761 Points: 13 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2REeJAj via

Scooter mechanic, once homeless, says cheap rides now help him pay rent

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Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

Article URL: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-social-features-joins-the-fediverse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18647655 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2C0SoHW via

Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

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500-Year-Old Body of Man Wearing Thigh-High Boots Found in London Sewer Build

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500-Year-Old Body of Man Wearing Thigh-High Boots Found in London Sewer Build

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/64239-thames-skeleton-with-boots-discovered.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644835 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2G19FEU via

Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

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Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-recovering-madoff-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18647241 Points: 12 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EcQLIL via

Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back

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Show HN: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo

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Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646489 Points: 15 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PuE5Pc via

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

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Four Mentorship Archetypes

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Four Mentorship Archetypes

Article URL: https://g-rand.com/2018/12/04/4-mentorship-archetypes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646006 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Pr1YHu via

Crowdfunding site Patreon is purging “far-right” figures

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Ask HN: Will Apple, Google, Amazon and Others Install Backdoors for Australia?

New legislation requires companies to secretly install backdoors if the government asks or risk multi million dollar fines. Will Apple, Google, and Amazon install Australian backdoors? Or will they just exit the country? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646572 Points: 14 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2E8A8h0 via

Ask HN: How do you guys develop mental toughness?

I recently got done reading David Goggins book Can't Hurt Me where he advocates being uncomfortable as one of the key factors in developing mental toughness but his book was rather focused on how to do this via physical means, what are some tactics you guys use to develop intellectual mental toughness? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646041 Points: 11 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zTMAhI via

“Plus Codes” by Google

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The -a to -z of Command-Line Options

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Ask HN: How do you guys develop mental toughness?

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“Plus Codes” by Google

Article URL: https://github.com/google/open-location-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646485 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/134ivcA via

The -a to -z of Command-Line Options

Article URL: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644857 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1wPDd9Z via

An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are

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Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs

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Bézier moi

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AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?

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Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track

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Permutive (YC S14) is hiring a senior JavaScript engineer in London

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JIRA is an antipattern

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Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?

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Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube

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Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix

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Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s

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South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly

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Gatemaker, or “The Aspen Summit” (1997)

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Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612511/alibaba-already-has-a-voice-assistant-way-better-than-googles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645938 Points: 14 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Q8TWbr via

Permutive (YC S14) is hiring a senior JavaScript engineer in London

Article URL: https://permutive.workable.com/j/25C5A9A443 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646281 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2rs29bM via

G.9 Kurzwellensender Atlantik / Soldatensender Calais Daily Transcripts

Article URL: https://www.psywar.org/delmer/8310/1001 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18636336 Points: 15 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2RPP5Jb via

Bézier moi

Article URL: https://cormullion.github.io/blog/2018/06/21/bezier.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635955 Points: 77 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2K2kunD via

Why Robot Brains Need Symbols

Article URL: http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/why-robot-brains-need-symbols Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18624915 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EiOSuO via

Pilot’s dramatic emergency landing at Chicago-area airport caught on video

Article URL: https://wgntv.com/2018/12/05/dramatic-video-shows-planes-emergency-landing-at-chicago-area-airport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18621588 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2G6IrfZ via

An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/elena-ferrante-pseudonym/573952/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646031 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2qU3CHy via

Gatemaker, or “The Aspen Summit” (1997)

Article URL: https://www.gregbryant.com/grogbrat/aspen97/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645542 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2BeMl0T via

Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/malicious-sites-abuse-11-year-old-firefox-bug-that-mozilla-failed-to-fix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644573 Points: 56 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2BZgDWM via

Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-people-happy-money/577231/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643427 Points: 94 # Comments: 78 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EdxkAk via

South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly

Article URL: https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/south-korean-law-to-punish-boosters-passes-in-the-national-assembly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644862 Points: 65 # Comments: 45 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QKybhF via

Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?

Article URL: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebook-crisis-or-media-narrative-about-facebook-crisis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645723 Points: 17 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2UvAKmQ via

Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs

Article URL: https://www.fewbutripe.com/2018/12/05/seemingly-impossible.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645582 Points: 31 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QfuO2D via

When Your Profiler Lies

Article URL: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/when-your-profiler-lies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645572 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Ec6Huz via

ABCD study enrollment done, announces opportunities for scientific engagement

Article URL: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/abcd-study-completes-enrollment-announces-opportunities-scientific-engagement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645446 Points: 25 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2rhrkxF via

Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/marriott-data-breach-response-risk-phishing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645380 Points: 21 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QrQJmP via

Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track

Article URL: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13683/intel-euvenabled-7nm-process-tech-is-on-track Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645364 Points: 36 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zIgrd2 via

How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_insanely_wealthy_people_buy_that_ordinary/cnnmca8/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645319 Points: 40 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2eHejbX via

Netflix Says Its Biggest Competition Is Sleep. It's Actually YouTube

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/09/netflixs-biggest-competition-isnt-sleep-its-youtube/amp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645269 Points: 38 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EjLoYQ via

How to Create Homemade Penicillin

Article URL: https://www.doomandbloom.net/making-penicillin-at-home/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645174 Points: 19 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2BdIEuW via

AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?

Article URL: https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp13-what-just-happened/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645109 Points: 27 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PuuWWL via

XNU target config for Raspberry Pi 3 (BCM2837)

Article URL: https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4903.221.2/pexpert/pexpert/arm64/BCM2837.h.auto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644905 Points: 16 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2L6E5Er via

China says rejecting physical cash is illegal amid e-payments popularity

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-payment/china-says-rejecting-physical-cash-is-illegal-amid-e-payments-popularity-idUSKBN1O902F Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644692 Points: 36 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Gamkpb via

LED Strain

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Show HN: A mobile friendly web based countries of the world game

Article URL: https://geogee.me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644560 Points: 50 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://geogee.me via

Why Not to Use Quora

Article URL: https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644489 Points: 254 # Comments: 113 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PiJ4SZ via

“A pattern language” explained (2016)

Article URL: https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/pattern-language-explained Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644150 Points: 32 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2BYZZGS via

Can Dirt Save the Earth?

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/magazine/dirt-save-earth-carbon-farming-climate-change.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643350 Points: 60 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EW7zA8 via

Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning

Article URL: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1087.full Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643202 Points: 22 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zN9dVa via

Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/14/fragmentary-knowledge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18642978 Points: 57 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xBlwmS via

Rediscovering My Daughter Through Instagram

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/parenting-instagram-adolescence.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18642803 Points: 82 # Comments: 49 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2rt9mZm via

Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning

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How to Create Homemade Penicillin

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China says rejecting physical cash is illegal amid e-payments popularity

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Show HN: A mobile friendly web based countries of the world game

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The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s

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UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly?

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Inside Rust's Async Transform

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Why Not to Use Quora

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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (2015)

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When Your Profiler Lies

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Can Dirt Save the Earth?

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XNU target config for Raspberry Pi 3 (BCM2837)

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Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps

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Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?

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Why Robot Brains Need Symbols

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Netflix Says Its Biggest Competition Is Sleep. It's Actually YouTube

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Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)

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How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)

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“A pattern language” explained (2016)

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LED Strain

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Introduction to A* (2014)

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Rediscovering My Daughter Through Instagram

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