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Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?

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Schumpeter on Strategy

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Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times

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CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google

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PROCJAM’s Seeds zine – Issue 3

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Photo-Sketching: Inferring Contour Drawings from Images

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Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times

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History of Teaching Machines

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Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies

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Mimir (YC S15) – Helping Instructors Teach CS – Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

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Confirmationist and falsificationist paradigms of science (2014)

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Cost Comparison of Deep Learning Hardware: Google TPUv2 vs. Nvidia Tesla V100

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Atrazine in Australian water affects male fertility

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New best story on Hacker News: H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

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Confirmationist and falsificationist paradigms of science (2014)

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2014/09/05/confirmationist-falsificationist-paradigms-science/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18956831 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HwcrCW via

A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic

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Cost Comparison of Deep Learning Hardware: Google TPUv2 vs. Nvidia Tesla V100

Article URL: https://medium.com/bigdatarepublic/cost-comparison-of-deep-learning-hardware-google-tpuv2-vs-nvidia-tesla-v100-3c63fe56c20f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960798 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2U3m0dK via

World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8B

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France's Privacy Regulator fines Google €50M in application of GDPR [french]

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Atrazine in Australian water affects male fertility

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History of Teaching Machines

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Photo-Sketching: Inferring Contour Drawings from Images

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Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies

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Procedural generation zine Seeds, issue 3

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Mimir (YC S15) – Helping Instructors Teach CS – Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

Article URL: https://mimir.breezy.hr/p/0351ca82a709-full-stack-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960449 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2R66a06 via

Kubernetes Failure Stories

Article URL: https://srcco.de/posts/kubernetes-failure-stories.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953647 Points: 448 # Comments: 189 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FOqp0u via

Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

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Intro to hacking MicroSD cards

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Bed that saved me from the Taliban

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Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics

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Intro to hacking MicroSD cards

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Bed that saved me from the Taliban

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Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

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Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield

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A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video]

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Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield

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Zorp – Open source proxy firewall with deep protocol analysis

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3Blue1Brown: So why do colliding blocks compute pi? [video]

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Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

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A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic

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Why does APT not use HTTPS?

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Zorp: a next generation, open source proxy firewall

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Why does APT not use HTTPS?

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Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-04/saudis-faces-cheap-oil-social-liberalization-climate-change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18957559 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2QnBo2e via

Zorp: a next generation, open source proxy firewall

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Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble

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World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam

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“An Introduction to Ray Tracing” Is Now Free for Download

Article URL: http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/an-introduction-to-ray-tracing-is-now-free-for-download/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958108 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DpPkpl via

Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7

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When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling

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Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam

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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

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B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens

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Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters

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Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf]

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H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

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Best Display for Programming?

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Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids

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Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects

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Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple

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Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct

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World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam

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Covariance and contravariance in C++

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“An Introduction to Ray Tracing” Is Now Free for Download

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Google launches an AI contest for social good

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JavaScript iterator patterns

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Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Characteristics in Music

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Kubernetes Failure Stories

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Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger

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Mapping the Brain at High Resolution

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Planning scientific equipment for Antarctic conditions

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Windows 98 Icons are Great

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Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)

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Intro to Docker, React, and Security

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Lime scooters are causing some issues for Brisbane's vision impaired community

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Best Display for Programming?

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Cleaning New York's filthy harbor with one billion oysters

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JavaScript iterator patterns

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Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Lime scooters are causing some issues for Brisbane's vision impaired community

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H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18956883 Points: 257 # Comments: 84 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2nLrjix via

NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7

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Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Characteristics in Music

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Google launches an AI contest for social good

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Covariance and contravariance in C++

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When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling

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Intro to Docker, React, and Security

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Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct

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Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects

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Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple

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Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger

Hello, Some time ago I did a data logger for fun, just to check if I could beat the performance of an old C++ project of mine (mini-async-log) and to avoid letting my multithreading-C skills rust when on a non-programming gig (using Yocto/OE, very little programming). This project is a BSD licensed, producer-wait-free (when using thread-local storage) generic message logger with high performance, decent test coverage, and type-safe C strings (requires C11 or C++ compiler). It was a shame to let this project to die unknown, as I think that it has potential to be used on some niches as network programs, HFT, games, etc. so here I am sharing it. https://github.com/RafaGago/mini-async-log This was an evolution of a similar logger I did, this time I wanted to achieve wait-free producers, so this implementation can use thread-local storage to achieve that. Some other non allocation-free strategies are also available. I still aimed for as easy as possible usage/learning curve and mainte

Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf]

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Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids

Article URL: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/paris-metro-tickets-prices-kids-bus-ride-disability-fares/580759/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18954221 Points: 184 # Comments: 134 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2S0ArBQ via

Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam

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Ferrock: A Stronger, Greener Alternative to Concrete?

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New best story on Hacker News: When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling

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New best story on Hacker News: Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

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