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Nova Hunters (2006)

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Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

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GitHub after Microsoft: How it has changed

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Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers

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CompCert – A formally verified C compiler

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Pharo 7.0 released

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Starcity (YC S16) Is Hiring React Native Engineers

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Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers

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CompCert – A formally verified C compiler

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WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to tackle spread of misinformation

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Pharo 7.0 released

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Odd History of the SD Logo [video]

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Seneca Valley Virus has earned a reputation as a potent oncolytic agent

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Starcity (YC S16) Is Hiring React Native Engineers

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We need to be wary of narratives of economic catastrophe

Article URL: https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-need-to-be-wary-of-narratives-of-economic-catastrophe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967836 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MpqtEV via

“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967806 Points: 14 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sIygoc via

Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton

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Bauhaus at 100: its legacy in five key designs

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jan/21/bauhaus-at-100-its-legacy-in-five-key-designs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967532 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RTIi4n via

Structure of recent philosophy (2017)

Article URL: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/noichlm94/posts/structure-of-recent-philosophy-iii/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967494 Points: 29 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DrdHTv via

Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life

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Silicon Valley’s Optimism Turns into ‘Shame of Being Suckered’

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Cambridge University releases an app that improves concentration akin to Ritalin

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-22/cambridge-uni-develops-app-with-ritalin-like-effects/10737268 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967301 Points: 8 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ab.co/2AVBklG via

Show HN: Instantly create a secure URL to your Mac

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Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)

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Show HN: Instantly create a secure URL to your Mac

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New best story on Hacker News: $1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis

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“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging

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Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life

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Silicon Valley’s Optimism Turns into ‘Shame of Being Suckered’

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Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)

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Bauhaus at 100: its legacy in five key designs

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Cambridge University releases an app that improves concentration akin to Ritalin

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We need to be wary of narratives of economic catastrophe

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Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton (Windows Emulation Layer) on Linux

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Structure of recent philosophy (2017)

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For the Love of Pipes

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When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]

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For the Love of Pipes

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Build Logistics for the Fortune 10 – EasyPost Hiring

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Build Logistics for the Fortune 10 – EasyPost Hiring

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Naïve Math: The Mendocino Motor and Earnshaw's Theorem

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On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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Analog computation, Part 1: What and why

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Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop

Article URL: https://www.didierboelens.com/2019/01/futures---isolates---event-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958747 Points: 90 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AV2Rn0 via

Researchers Have Identified a Virus That Attacks Human Cancer Cells

Article URL: https://www.healthfoodis.com/2019/01/researchers-have-identified-virus-that.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18966742 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RHBuYg via

Asynchronous Programming in Rust book

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Researchers Have Identified a Virus That Attacks Human Cancer Cells

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Asynchronous Programming in Rust book

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Paradise Lost is one of the most important poems

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NuCypher (YC S16) is hiring engineers to build privacy-preserving infrastructure

We’re looking for generalist engineers to join us in building the future of privacy-preserving infrastructure, specifically fully homomorphic encryption, proxy re-encryption, and related technoloies. Responsibilities: * Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure powering our decentralized network; * Implement cryptographic primitives and write robust, security-first code that will run in high-risk, adversarial environments; * Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes; * Review team members’ code to collaboratively identify bugs and correct security issues; * Help establish threat models against our decentralized network and protocol. Competencies: * Deep knowledge of Python, Go, Javascript, Rust, or C; * Familiarity with public-key cryptography and related cryptosystems, and the OpenSSL APIs ; * Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD processes (CircleCI experience a plus!), git, automated testing (such as pytest), and other software development best practices; * Verbal a...

Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper

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Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017)

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Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

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Infinite Repeating Dashed Lines in SVG

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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?

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Munchery Shuts Down

Got this via email: Since 2010, we have been committed to bringing fresh, local, and delicious meals into your homes along with all our customers across the country. We’ve been delighted to work with world renowned chefs, experiment with diverse and unique ingredients and recipes, and be a part of of your holiday feasts and traditions. We have also enjoyed giving back to our community through meal donations, volunteer service, and so much more. Today, with a heavy heart, we’re reaching out to announce that Munchery is closing its doors and ending operations effective immediately. Any outstanding orders with Munchery will be canceled and refunded. Please allow 2-3 business days for these refunds to process. More than anything, we want to say thank you. Thank you for all of the love and support you have shown us over the years, for sharing us with your friends and family, and for including us in your special life moments. We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to share our dr...

Is screen time good or bad? It’s not that simple

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A command-line installer for Windows

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What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Objective-Smalltalk: now serving its own web site

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$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis

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Volume Rendering with WebGL

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TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool

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Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust

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Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes

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Binder – Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks

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Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems

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Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

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New best story on Hacker News: Programming Fonts – Test Drive

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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?

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Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

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Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

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Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop

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Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust

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$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis

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Analog computation, Part 1: What and why

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Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

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Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017)

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Paradise Lost is one of the most important poems

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Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems

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Munchery Shuts Down

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A command-line installer for Windows

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John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

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Can Gradient Boosting Learn Simple Arithmetic?

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Is screen time good or bad? It’s not that simple

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Volume Rendering with WebGL

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Rules of Play

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Things you should know about the Ottoman Janissaries

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Binder – Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks

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Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes

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Infinite Repeating Dashed Lines in SVG

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NuCypher (YC S16) is hiring engineers to build privacy-preserving infrastructure

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On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool

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Ask HN: What are must know concepts for back end development?

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Objective-Smalltalk: now serving its own web site

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What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper

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If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure?

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