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1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years

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Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution

What is best free software for managing and scheduling backup procedure of folders/databases in many clients? I want a centralized system that have fine-grained schedule and can show backup status of folders and databases in different clients. It's better to have plugins for supporting backup using different kinds of tools like PostgreSQL(pg_dump), MySQL, Redis, SSH ,... . Backups can be stored on different places like S3, Dropbox and local folders. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692844 Points: 20 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2GkS8HJ via

NetSurf Web Browser

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On the age of computation in the epoch of humankind

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-018-00286-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692414 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Qxu5dB via

Michelangelo PyML: Introducing Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model

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1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years

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Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution

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NetSurf Web Browser

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On the age of computation in the epoch of humankind

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Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python

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Michelangelo PyML: Introducing Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model

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Going extinct: why corporate giants die

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Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)

Article URL: http://conal.net/blog/posts/can-functional-programming-be-liberated-from-the-von-neumann-paradigm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692470 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1tdbp04 via

Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python

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Machine learning proliferates in particle physics

Article URL: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/machine-learning-proliferates-in-particle-physics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692087 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LPfFCn via

Going extinct: why corporate giants die

Article URL: https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/lbsr/going-extinct-why-corporate-giants-die Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691173 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ElT0JG via

Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)

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Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland

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Comparing Firefox 64 Built with GCC and Clang

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Machine learning proliferates in particle physics

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Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

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An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)

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Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it? (2017)

Article URL: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/03/academia-is-fucked-up-so-why-isnt.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692377 Points: 19 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2mVtShk via

IO without entering kernel

Article URL: http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=aio-poll&id=5aeaa1ad235c708e31ad930d1ff6ba6fd39bee91 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692376 Points: 19 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2A3Otsl via

Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland

Article URL: https://postlight.com/trackchanges/podcast/computing-is-everywhere Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692329 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2BlvObs via

Bacterial Growth: A Statistical Physicist's Guide

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Comparing Firefox 64 Built with GCC and Clang

Article URL: https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/firefox-64-built-with-gcc-and-clang.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691579 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QvGhLC via

Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it?

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An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)

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IO without entering kernel

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Encryption toolkit for media makers

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How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers

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The Accidental Room

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How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers

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Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything but Zen

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/headspace-vs-calm-the-meditation-battle-thats-anything-but-zen-11544889606 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692199 Points: 12 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Gszgqe via

The Accidental Room

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Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything but Zen

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Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning [pdf]

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Scrapino – Self-sustainable robot from e-scrap using renewable energy [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896318328593/pdf?md5=ac7fae174710da0a5035026f88e0559b&pid=1-s2.0-S2405896318328593-main.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18687923 Points: 13 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EmoJue via

Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]

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Orphan Drugs

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Glasgow's Riverside Museum

Article URL: https://www.arthitectural.com/zaha-hadid-architects-riverside-museum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18687453 Points: 22 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EpSKcq via

How to Grow Old (1951)

Article URL: https://sites.google.com/site/gobenyan/essay Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18680302 Points: 392 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Er03BG via

Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-hubble-far-away-planet.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18680048 Points: 74 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2RZJtMu via

Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning [pdf]

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Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess

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Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan_Gudmundsson/publication/328307928_Human-Like_Playtesting_with_Deep_Learning/links/5bcf1cd992851c1816baf8d1/Human-Like-Playtesting-with-Deep-Learning.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688185 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zYIyow via

World’s nations agree on rules to implement Paris climate deal

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/worlds-nations-agree-on-rules-to-implement-paris-climate-deal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691621 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QzPRNJ via

Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690906 Points: 17 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2GfPZNq via

World’s nations agree on rules to implement Paris climate deal

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A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS

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A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS

Article URL: https://cyber-itl.org/2018/12/07/a-look-at-home-routers-and-linux-mips.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688947 Points: 117 # Comments: 71 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Eo3pV1 via

Interview with Evan You of Vue.js [audio]

Article URL: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/078-evan-you-of-vue Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691476 Points: 31 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LlzsGO via

Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/javas-forgotten-forbear/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691446 Points: 65 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QwwK78 via

How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691413 Points: 86 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Lq5kdz via

PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pge-safety-investigation-20181214-story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690916 Points: 121 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ExTldf via

Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-15/robinhood-will-retool-checking-product-following-scrutiny Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690873 Points: 81 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QvNziL via

DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter

Article URL: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/ddr2/index.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690836 Points: 106 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PFRB2v via

USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico

Article URL: https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-announces-largest-continuous-oil-assessment-texas-and-new-mexico Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690676 Points: 53 # Comments: 48 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Qzku59 via

Algol 68: A Retrospective

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Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

The following is from Lucky Green's announcement on Facebook (https://ift.tt/2Ex7wz0 Tim May - Cypherpunks co-Founder, Discoverer of Radiation-Induced Single Event Upsets in Integrated Circuits, Uncompromising Firearms Proponent Word has reached me that my dear friend, co-conspirator in many things and for many years, fellow Freedom Fighter Tim May passed away earlier this week at his home in Corralitos, California. Death appears to be from natural causes pending autopsy. I.e. Tim did not die in a hail of bullets as so many who didn’t know Tim all that well and largely from his public writings had predicted. (...) Tim’s realization that any Manifesto, Constitution, or Bill of Rights wasn’t worth the paper it was written on absent a broadly armed (and heavily armed) population left many of his critics and admirers alike confused. As with so many of his assertions, Tim was correct in this analysis, though his assertion that “private ownership of firearms is a public good” will l...

Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA

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GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out

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MU puzzle

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Depression

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Rust and WebAssembly in 2019

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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85

Article URL: https://fair.org/home/william-blum-us-policy-critic-derided-by-nyt-dies-at-85/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18689130 Points: 91 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2RTQWfH via

Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers (2012)

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The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

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The untold story of how India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/13/the-untold-story-of-how-india-sex-workers-prevented-an-aids-epidemic-ashok-alexander-a-stranger-truth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688276 Points: 39 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EsZwz4 via

The untold story of how India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic

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Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)

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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter

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The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing

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Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?

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Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA

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Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]

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Scrapino – Self-sustainable robot from e-scrap using renewable energy [pdf]

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Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

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Orphan Drugs

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Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

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MU puzzle

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Rust and WebAssembly in 2019

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How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments

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How to Grow Old (1951)

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GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out

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Why we suck at “solving wicked problems”

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The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

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Glasgow's Riverside Museum

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PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion

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Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers (2012)

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Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed

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USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico

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Algol 68: A Retrospective

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William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85

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Interview with Evan You of Vue.js [audio]

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Depression

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