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APL with a Mathematical Accent: The Best APL Primer Around

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Drew DeVault: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night

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Drew DeVault: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night

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Family that owns OxyContin maker led efforts to mislead public, documents show

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/health/sacklers-purdue-oxycontin-opioids.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919901 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2VVglZ5 via

A Camera Is Watching You in Your AirBnB: And, You Consented to It

Article URL: http://jeffreybigham.com/blog/2019/who-is-watching-you-in-your-airbnb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919832 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MdN2fT via

Dirty Truth About Turning Seawater into Drinking Water

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Family that owns OxyContin maker led efforts to mislead public, documents show

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A Camera Is Watching You in Your AirBnB: And, You Consented to It

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Dirty Truth About Turning Seawater into Drinking Water

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After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue

Article URL: https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-gdpr-cut-off-ad-exchanges-europe-ad-revenue/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920079 Points: 24 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SW3cx1 via

After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue

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One Codex is hiring a senior front-end engineer – Genomics, data viz, React

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Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for a string processing (2017)

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Reverse engineering GoDaddy's tracking script

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One Codex is hiring a senior front-end engineer – Genomics, data viz, React

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WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

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Reverse engineering GoDaddy's tracking script

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Libc on OS X invokes Perl as a subprocess for a string processing function

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what it means to be “an African writer”

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WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what it means to be “an African writer”

Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/shut-and-write Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18918826 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TCupVe via

Carousel was originally a training tool for death

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Carousel was originally a training tool for death

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How to teach Git

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How to teach Git

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Show HN: Postmake – A directory of 250+ tools and resources for your projects

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Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal

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Show HN: Postmake – A directory of 250+ tools and resources for your projects

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MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license

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MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license

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Show HN: Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devices

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Show HN: Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devices

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How I got the home address of the person that put a RasPi in our network closet

Article URL: https://blog.haschek.at/2018/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919129 Points: 21 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MdLWkd via

How I got the home address of the person that put a RasPi in our network closet

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Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/snap-cfo-tim-stone-is-resigning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18916513 Points: 111 # Comments: 58 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2RKJDdG via

99% code coverage (2017)

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99% code coverage

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Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF

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Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF

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No more XS4ALL is unthinkable

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No more XS4ALL is unthinkable

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Scale AI is hiring engineers to accelerate the development of AI

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Hostile takeover effort by Valor of Ripple

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/token-takeover-battle-brews-for-ripple-1547570363-8f4b4b10-6df2-49b8-8863-ce5fb2edddd2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18918350 Points: 26 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DaX6U3 via

Migrate Jest to TypeScript

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I'm not convinced that this wasn't the second biggest mistake of my life

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Design Considerations for High-Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS [pdf]

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Rendering of Rise of the Tomb Raider

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Startup Playbook (2015)

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C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced

Article URL: http://www.retro-commodore.eu/2019/01/15/c64-vic20-c128-psu-open-sourced/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18916995 Points: 73 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CpcQkJ via

More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind

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A new cryptojacking tactic involving Wikipedia and downloaded movie files

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Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans

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GBatteries (YC W14) let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pump

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/gbatteries-let-you-charge-your-car-as-quickly-as-visiting-the-pump/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18915230 Points: 53 # Comments: 70 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2ssKBgg via

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

Article URL: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914471 Points: 184 # Comments: 156 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VSeSCF via

Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

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President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill

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Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking

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An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys

Article URL: https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913946 Points: 319 # Comments: 73 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DdjKLr via

Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/ahead-of-ipo-airbnb-achieves-profitability-for-second-year-in-a-row/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913438 Points: 217 # Comments: 183 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2Hgcna0 via

Performance Tuning for .NET Core

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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Startup Playbook (2015)

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Migrate Jest to TypeScript

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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Rendering of Rise of the Tomb Raider

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Pink Trombone

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Design Considerations for High-Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS [pdf]

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An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys

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More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind

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Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row

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Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans

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Scale AI is hiring engineers to accelerate the development of AI

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C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced

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I'm not convinced that this wasn't the second biggest mistake of my life

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Local Minima, Saddle Points, and Plateaus

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On Infrastructure at Scale: A Cascading Failure of Distributed Systems

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Performance Tuning for .NET Core

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Some Lisp books (2012)

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New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy

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Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking

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Lester Wunderman, Father of Direct Marketing, Has Died

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A new cryptojacking tactic involving Wikipedia and downloaded movie files

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Why is cognitive function impaired at high altitude?

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President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill

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ECL logic ramblings

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Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Hostile takeover effort by Valor of Ripple

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GBatteries (YC W14) let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pump

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Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

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Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze

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OpenEdge – Extend cloud computing, data and service to edge devices

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New best story on Hacker News: Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

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New best story on Hacker News: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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New best story on Hacker News: Pink Trombone

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New best story on Hacker News: California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low

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New best story on Hacker News: 35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp

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