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Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm

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Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms [video]

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Technology’s dark forest

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Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm

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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog

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Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career–and its own guitars, software

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Amazon Ruined Online Shopping?

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C Standard Library

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Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (2012)

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Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve (2018)

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Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms [video]

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-46885707/rent-a-sister-coaxing-japan-s-young-men-out-of-their-rooms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953291 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bbc.in/2CAVh0W via

Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (2012)

Article URL: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equilibrium-in-the-team-fortress-2-economy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952479 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/KZWr4c via

Technology’s dark forest

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/technologys-dark-forest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953174 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2ASlF6A via

Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career–and its own guitars, software

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/how-buke-and-gase-built-a-huge-indie-rock-career-and-its-own-guitars-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953128 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sEq2xn via

C Standard Library

Article URL: https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-01-19-inside-c-standard-lib.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952755 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Do58Jr via

Amazon Ruined Online Shopping?

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/amazon-made-online-commerce-bewildering/580660/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953239 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RDJxW8 via

Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve (2018)

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-quantum-computers-will-ever-be-able-to-solve-20180621/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952010 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Fxp5id via

Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog

Article URL: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/01/mastodon-2.7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952951 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CABD5e via

Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/18/18188199/drc-ebola-outbreak Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952865 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Fz1vT7 via

MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file

Article URL: https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2019/01/20/sites-hacked-via-mysql-protocal-flaw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952864 Points: 6 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DmfrO3 via

Students learn from people they love

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MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file

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Decidim: Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

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OnSen UI: Mobile Web App (Vue.js)

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Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city

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Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator series goes modular

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Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)

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OnSen UI: Mobile Web App (Vue.js)

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Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)

Article URL: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950590 Points: 8 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2c2Ogf5 via

Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator series goes modular

Article URL: https://www.factmag.com/2019/01/18/teenage-engineering-pocket-operator-modular-announced/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18949822 Points: 25 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Hj0C2B via

Students learn from people they love

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/learning-emotion-education.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952614 Points: 21 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2CrKWVi via

Decidim: Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

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EightOS: Open-Source Operating System for the Bodymind

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Livox Mid 40: $600 mass produced LiDAR sensor

Article URL: https://www.livoxtech.com/mid-40-and-mid-100 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952101 Points: 19 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2U15JG9 via

Purism Librem 5 Pre Order

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Livox Mid 40: $600 mass produced LiDAR sensor

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EightOS: Open-Source Operating System for the Bodymind

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Vitamin B1 deficiency at the heart of an environmental mystery

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Purism Librem 5 Pre Order

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It's Time for Action on Data Privacy

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Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots

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Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots

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30th Anniversary of the Mac SE/30, a cult classic still in active development

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Hitman Runner Mark Fellows Convicted of Murder on GPS Watch Data

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As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice (2018)

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30th Anniversary of the Mac SE/30, a cult classic still in active development

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European Union has canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs

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Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

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My Parents Are Flat Earthers

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Internals of PostgreSQL

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Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs

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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning

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Fever effect

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Tim Cook: 'It's Time for Action on Data Privacy'

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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets

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Mozart.js

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Algol 68

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Zkeme80 – A Forth-Based OS for the TI-84+ Calculator

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I Nearly Lost All of My Data

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Darkstar: A Xerox Star Emulator

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Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they are a piece of art

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A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]

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OCaml bindings for PyTorch

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Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

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Carbon emissions and costs of subsidizing New York nuclear vs renewables

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Surprising Network Activity in the Immature Brain

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Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019

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Ask HN: Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do?

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HandBrake 1.2.0 Released

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Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data

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Show HN: C++ Editor for Teaching How to Code

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Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go

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Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?

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A Letter in Response to the ASA’s Statement on P-Values

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Show HN: Pipelines – Language for scripting parrallel pipelines with Python

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Wikipedia cofounder: How and why I transitioned to Linux–how you can, too

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Wikipedia cofounder: How and why I transitioned to Linux–how you can, too

Article URL: http://larrysanger.org/2019/01/how-and-why-i-transitioned-to-linux-how-you-can-too/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18949818 Points: 106 # Comments: 103 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Fv8Mn3 via

My Parents Are Flat Earthers

Article URL: https://jameshfisher.com/2019/01/20/my-parents-are-flat-earthers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18951569 Points: 54 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QXQonT via

Tim Cook: 'It's Time for Action on Data Privacy'

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/17/cook-privacy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18951475 Points: 48 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RVx9jk via

Fever effect

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Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?

All technology moves quickly but front-end development evolves at a whole different level. What is popular one year is “old” the next and often a totally different menthodology. Why do you think front-end development is in such a constant state of change? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18951008 Points: 27 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MjtFlE via

Algol 68

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Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

Article URL: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/334702/Netflix_claims_Fortnite_is_now_a_bigger_competitor_than_HBO.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950807 Points: 181 # Comments: 145 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ubm.io/2TWL5XK via

Mozart.js

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Ask HN: Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do?

Suppose I want to learn graphQL - most of the tutorials are a combination of express, react and 20 other things, when most of these aren't going to help me learn what I originally came to learn. I saw a course on blockchain which explicitly stated it is for beginners ("no coding experience necessary") and they picked JS along with 5 other JS frameworks to build a simple toy blockchain when Python would have been a much simpler choice (most of the students were struggling to understand JS Promises and unable to complete the exercises). Isn't this crazy? I can understand paid courses doing this - maybe they think they're providing more value for the money by tacking as many tech as possible, but free resources? Even they do the same! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950679 Points: 60 # Comments: 34 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sEL66V via

Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs

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European Union has canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs

Article URL: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/european-union-mcdonalds-big-mac-trademark-supermacs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950544 Points: 55 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T3Ticw via

Internals of PostgreSQL

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A Letter in Response to the ASA’s Statement on P-Values

Article URL: https://errorstatistics.com/2019/01/19/a-letter-in-response-to-the-asas-statement-on-p-values-by-ionides-giessing-ritov-and-page/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950298 Points: 24 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RBabin via

Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Carbon emissions and costs of subsidizing New York nuclear vs renewables

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Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they are a piece of art

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I Nearly Lost All of My Data

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Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

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HandBrake 1.2.0 Released

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A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]

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Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go

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New best story on Hacker News: 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old

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