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ISP blocking data access during Shutdown

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EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

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Gaming the lottery: How one winner used math to overcome the odds

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Netflix to raise prices by 13% to 18%

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Who killed Edwin Drood?

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Tor is an NSA Honeypot

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Screens might be as bad for mental health as potatoes

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Gaming the lottery: How one winner used math to overcome the odds

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Tor is an NSA Honeypot

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Headlight of the Future Is a Laser

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Headlight of the Future Is a Laser

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Factors in authentication

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Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX

Article URL: http://blogs.perl.org/users/sylvain_colinet/2019/01/mis-using-perl-6-grammars-decompressing-zelda-3-gfx.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18904144 Points: 39 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FxMTCH via

Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)

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Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)

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React create composable components

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Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer

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Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer

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React create composable components

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Factors in authentication

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How to Write a Condolence Letter

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How to Write a Condolence Letter

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Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns

Article URL: http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/i-analyzed-the-chords-of-1300-popular-songs-for-patterns-this-is-what-i-found/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18905422 Points: 183 # Comments: 94 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/OTankZ via

Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Return of the Runtimes: Rethinking the Language Runtime System (2017) [pdf]

Article URL: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maas/papers/maas-hotos17-cloud30.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903660 Points: 18 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QLPoTN via

How Desmos uses Pratt Parsers

Article URL: https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/pratt-parser/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903550 Points: 27 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Fr2zIA via

Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging

Article URL: https://os.phil-opp.com/paging-introduction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903235 Points: 540 # Comments: 70 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SUlwXg via

Our culture has two types of forgetting

Article URL: http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903211 Points: 69 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HdTwN4 via

Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX

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Insect collapse

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18909650 Points: 12 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2M9LtiY via

Insect collapse

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Firefox Nightly: Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture

Article URL: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/01/14/moving-to-a-profile-per-install-architecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18909655 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2TMWlG3 via

China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

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U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people

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China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

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Firefox Nightly: Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture

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U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people

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Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy

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A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers

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A package for verifying Google reCaptcha v3 responses in Go

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A package for verifying Google reCaptcha v3 responses in Go

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Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming

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Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing a Modern OS

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Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming

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Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing a Modern OS

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New best story on Hacker News: Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

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New best story on Hacker News: Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging

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Field notes: London, England (2018)

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35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp

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Security Checklist

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Elasticache with Python, or how to stop worrying and love HAProxy

Article URL: https://medium.com/@Sendbird/elasticache-for-python-production-payloads-or-how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-haproxy-e55f2f7309a0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908986 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HgF72H via

The Private Edward Gorey

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‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review

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Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine

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Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion

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Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning

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Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers

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Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only

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Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet

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Kubernetes Security Best Practices

Article URL: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/01/14/9-kubernetes-security-best-practices-everyone-must-follow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906788 Points: 169 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TO8Elk via

What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]

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Search for England’s Forgotten Footpaths

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Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

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SSD Storage: 2018 in review

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FoundationDB Record Layer

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A crash course in managing remote teams

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Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#12fbd51842b7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906017 Points: 615 # Comments: 210 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SZ6IH2 via

35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp

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Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Guix: An advanced operating system

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Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

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Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning

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Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

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Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers

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Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine

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FoundationDB Record Layer

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A crash course in managing remote teams

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Elasticache with Python, or how to stop worrying and love HAProxy

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Field notes: London, England (2018)

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Elixir v1.8 released

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Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns

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Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion

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Return of the Runtimes: Rethinking the Language Runtime System (2017) [pdf]

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SSD Storage: 2018 in review

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How Desmos uses Pratt Parsers

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Our culture has two types of forgetting

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Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet

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Security Checklist

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Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only

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‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review

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Slack Plans to Follow Spotify on Unconventional IPO Route

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The Private Edward Gorey

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What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]

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Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging

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Search for England’s Forgotten Footpaths

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Kubernetes Security Best Practices

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Exploring the Peano Axioms Through Algebraic Data Types

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