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New best story on Hacker News: Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums

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New best story on Hacker News: 75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)

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New best story on Hacker News: Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted

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New best story on Hacker News: Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

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New best story on Hacker News: Scratch 3.0

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Launching LiteCLI

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Lose yourself in this highly addictive “murder map” of medieval London

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Launching LiteCLI

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Lose yourself in this highly addictive “murder map” of medieval London

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/addictive-interactive-murder-map-lets-you-explore-medieval-london-crime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831456 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LQEETg via

Notes from Michael Feathers’ Brutal Refactoring (2015)

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75% of med students are on antidepressants or stimulants or both (2017)

Article URL: http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/75-med-students-antidepressants-stimulants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831524 Points: 14 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VwjL4j via

Notes from Michael Feathers’ Brutal Refactoring (2015)

Article URL: https://www.thekua.com/atwork/2011/05/notes-from-michael-feathers-brutal-refactoring/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18830219 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1BALjo3 via

75% of med students are on antidepressants or stimulants or both (2017)

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Ravenmaster Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London’s Resident Birds

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No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith

Article URL: https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/01/03/plaintiff-in-first-no-fly-trial-wins-another-appeal-on-attorneys-fees-and-government-lawyers-bad-faith/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831331 Points: 44 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2F7w7tG via

Ravenmaster Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London’s Resident Birds

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ravenmaster-christopher-skaife-tells-of-his-relationships-with-the-tower-of-londons-resident-birds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831127 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2C2NzfZ via

Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem (2017)

Article URL: http://cancer.nautil.us/article/186/cancer-isnt-a-logic-problem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18830015 Points: 10 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2oKTAp6 via

No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith

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Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem (2017)

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Defeating Google with Google

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Defeating Google with Google

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DNA-testing company 23andMe has signed a $300M deal with Drug Company GSK

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/dna-testing-delete-your-data-23andme-ancestry-2018-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831370 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://read.bi/2Aohq2r via

Linux board makers learn how to specialize

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#iotashaming

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Google shifted $23 bln to tax haven Bermuda in 2017

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/google-taxes-netherlands/google-shifted-23-bln-to-tax-haven-bermuda-in-2017-filing-idUSL8N1Z3403 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18830928 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://reut.rs/2secUih via

Google shifted $23 bln to tax haven Bermuda in 2017

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#iotashaming

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DNA-testing company 23andMe has signed a $300M deal with Drug Company GSK

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Linux board makers learn how to specialize

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Safely using destructors in Python (2009)

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/06/12/safely-using-destructors-in-python/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829075 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2F5g80l via

Safely using destructors in Python (2009)

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WebRender newsletter #34

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WebRender newsletter #34

Article URL: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/webrender-newsletter-34/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831036 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2F3vSA2 via

Complicated Sounds: ‘Really the Blues’

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Complicated Sounds: ‘Really the Blues’

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Otter Browser – Controlled by the user, not vice versa

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Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code [pdf]

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Otter Browser – Controlled by the user, not vice versa

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Towards a Better Pythagorean Cup

Article URL: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/pythagorean-cup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824969 Points: 94 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2F7y7TA via

Rats 'wrongly blamed' for 1900 Glasgow plague outbreak

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Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/technology/weather-channel-app-lawsuit.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18821945 Points: 185 # Comments: 110 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2R9zJ5U via

Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else

Article URL: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18810181 Points: 90 # Comments: 42 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QfTKSK via

Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code [pdf]

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Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash

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Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash

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Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?

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Japan’s Pioneering Detector Set To Join Hunt for Gravitational Waves

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Japan’s Pioneering Detector Set To Join Hunt for Gravitational Waves

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Lego Porsche Crashtest in Slow-Motion (2017) [video]

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iOS Menu

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NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA to Public at RSA

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Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

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Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence

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Blockchain at CMU and Beyond

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How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?

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Sanos Operating System Kernel

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Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else

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Wielded by a Wizard

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Towards a Better Pythagorean Cup

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Investigating Nvidia's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores

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Boom Supersonic raises $100M, aims for 2019 test flights

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Tesla Autopilot HW3 details

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Ranking Vegetables by How Healthy They Are

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The Hallmarks of Aging (2013)

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Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

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Security Researcher Cracks Google's Widevine DRM

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Problems With Open-Source Business Models

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What Data Compression Does to Music (2012)

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A dive into the world of MS-DOS viruses

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The Norwegian art of the packed lunch

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Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

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Ask HN: Fastest way to get started with freelancing?

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FoundationDB Summit: video roundup

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Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

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Six-Year homelab history in pictures

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Rats 'wrongly blamed' for 1900 Glasgow plague outbreak

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Crev: dependency vetting with a web of trust

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Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/finland-one-percent-ai-artificial-intelligence-courses-learning-training/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18830422 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://politi.co/2F7y0qr via

The Norwegian art of the packed lunch

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Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

As a long time software developer who hasn't done full stack in awhile (since 2013), what's everyone's go to web hosting stack today? Wanted to quickly put together a simple website with react/node. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829557 Points: 59 # Comments: 48 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ax1Txr via

Wielded by a Wizard

Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/seamus-perry/wielded-by-a-wizard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18827789 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CLeYEE via

Six-Year homelab history in pictures

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Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

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The iOS Menu

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Sanos Operating System Kernel

Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 operating system kernel for network server appliances running on standard PC hardware. The kernel implements basic operating system services like booting, memory management, thread scheduling, local and remote file systems, TCP/IP networking and DLL loading and linking. You can use Sanos as a small kernel for embedded server applications written in C or as a JeOS (Just enough Operating System). Sanos has a fairly standard POSIX based API and an ANSI Standard C library. The kernel was developed as part of an experiment on investigating the feasibility of running java server applications without a traditional operating system only using a simple kernel. A win32 layer allowed the Windows version of a standard HotSpot JVM to run under Sanos, essentially providing a JavaOS platform for server applications. While Sanos is self-contained in the sense that it can build itself, it can be cross-compiled under either Windows using Microsoft Visual C, or under ...

Ask HN: Fastest way to get started with freelancing?

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Blockchain at CMU and Beyond

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Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?

Are there any real consequences to having your data leaked in a breach? If yes, what? Assuming not passwords. Things like name, address, passport number, etc. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829422 Points: 41 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QszJc4 via

Investigating Nvidia's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores

Article URL: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13584/nvidia-xavier-agx-hands-on-carmel-and-more Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829339 Points: 35 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GS6Nub via

Ranking Vegetables by How Healthy They Are

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Security Researcher Cracks Google's Widevine DRM

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-googles-widevine-drm-l3-only/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828654 Points: 35 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://zd.net/2LOJWyE via

NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA to Public at RSA

Article URL: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us19/agenda/sessions/16608-Come-Get-Your-Free-NSA-Reverse-Engineering-Tool Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828083 Points: 245 # Comments: 61 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2R95Na2 via

Chang'e Moon Lander Is Running Atmel SPARC AT697F and Xilinx XQR2V3000 FPGA [pdf]

Article URL: http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/planetary-and-space-science/2018/Jia_et_al_The_Chang-E-4_Mission_Planetary_and_Space_Science_in_press_(2017).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828040 Points: 31 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LQvoi0 via

Lego Porsche Crashtest in Slow-Motion (2017)

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A dive into the world of MS-DOS viruses

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The Hallmarks of Aging (2013)

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The game-day caffeine routine that powers the NBA's most frequent flyers

Article URL: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25667397/the-game-day-caffeine-routine-keeps-portland-trail-blazers-nba-most-well-traveled-team-running Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826385 Points: 71 # Comments: 56 from Hacker News: Front Page https://es.pn/2COwB6x via

How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?

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What Data Compression Does to Music (2012)

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FoundationDB Summit: video roundup

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Problems With Open-Source Business Models

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Boom Supersonic raises $100M, aims for 2019 test flights

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New best story on Hacker News: Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

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New best story on Hacker News: Software Engineering at Google (2017)

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