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Why We Dominate the Earth

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Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)

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Why We Dominate the Earth

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A Mouse is a Database (2012)

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The cult of rotary mixers

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Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?

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People Find It Difficult to Think About Arguments That Contradict Their Politics

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Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

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Una Corda, a piano with one string per note

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He Reported on Facebook. Now He Approaches It with Caution

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Google Urged the U.S. To Limit Protection for Activist Workers

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Programming: Mostly a hate story

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Deliveroo users are getting defrauded – and it could be fined millions for it

Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/security/2019/01/deliveroo-users-are-getting-defrauded-and-it-could-be-fined-millions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18988117 Points: 28 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Mr7gTx via

Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class

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They Build Spacecraft and Fight Epidemics; Shutdown May Scare Them Away

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Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?

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Rescale Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineers in San Francisco

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Show HN: 10x~20x faster than Golang reflect.DeepEqual

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Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning

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Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?

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Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class

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Deliveroo users are getting defrauded – and it could be fined millions for it

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They Build Spacecraft and Fight Epidemics; Shutdown May Scare Them Away

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Show HN: 10x~20x faster than Golang reflect.DeepEqual

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Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media

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Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning

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Rescale Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineers in San Francisco

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Node.js Express API development security checklist (2017)

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A new documentary addresses the stigma of menstruation in India

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Show HN: Fnm, a fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in ReasonML

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If you installed PEAR PHP in the last 6 months, you may be infected

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Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API (with SPA support)

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Meijer: Your Mouse Is a Database

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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly

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If you installed PEAR PHP in the last 6 months, you may be infected

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/pear-php-site-breach-lets-hackers-slip-malware-into-official-download/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987518 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FK12xC via

Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API (with SPA support)

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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly

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The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/the-secrets-of-lyndon-johnsons-archives Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977525 Points: 84 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2W7mDVC via

Show HN: Fnm, a fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in ReasonML

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Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s

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Threads Basics (2009)

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Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s

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Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year End

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Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

Article URL: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/commission-to-revoke-british-eu-domains-after-brexit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18983783 Points: 29 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AT2hWV via

Our Software Dependency Problem

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Macintosh Turns 35

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/24/macintosh-turns-35/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18986828 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CD8Ahv via

Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns

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Macintosh Turns 35

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Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

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Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

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Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line

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Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime

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Remastered 1964 films show origins of SLAC

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The cult of rotary mixers

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WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser

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Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

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The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives

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“The artists live their life, and I live my laundry life.”

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BuildZoom (marketplace for construction) is hiring engineers

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Canada's New Food Guide

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Fearless Security: Memory Safety

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InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead

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Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)

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New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

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Individualism, Self-Selection, Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration [pdf]

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Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger

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Intel 80386, part 1: Introduction

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Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees

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What developer advocates do

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Fuzzing an API with DeepState

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Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy

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Blippar finds life after death; former investor buys assets to relaunch

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Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open

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HN on second day from launch

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Our Software Dependency Problem

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Running Fast SQL on DynamoDB Tables

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BuildZoom (marketplace for construction) is hiring engineers

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Remastered 1964 films show origins of SLAC

Article URL: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2019-01-16-remastered-films-show-slac-origins.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18986544 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://stanford.io/2MqVEjp via

Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/apple-lays-off-over-200-from-project-titan-autonomous-vehicle-group.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18986417 Points: 97 # Comments: 64 from Hacker News: Front Page https://cnb.cx/2R5OcLf via

Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/01/23/our-2019-developer-survey-is-open-to-coders-everywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18985760 Points: 64 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sIMTYJ via

Canada's New Food Guide

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Blippar finds life after death; former investor buys assets to relaunch

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InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead

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HN on second day from launch

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Fearless Security: Memory Safety

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Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger

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Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

Article URL: https://toxicbakery.github.io/vsts-devops/microsoft-devops-ci/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18983586 Points: 158 # Comments: 88 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HoLhh0 via

Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/01/23/queueing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18983072 Points: 185 # Comments: 104 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FTENnY via

Running Fast SQL on DynamoDB Tables

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WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser

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What developer advocates do

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Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime

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Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy

Hi HN! I’m Rohan Pavuluri, co-founder of Upsolve ( https://upsolve.org/ ), a nonprofit in YC’s W19 batch. We provide software for low-income people in America that makes filing for bankruptcy less painful and expensive, just like what TurboTax did for filing taxes. Bankruptcy is a lifeline for low-income people in the United States who fall into debt from job loss, medical emergencies, and payday lenders. It allows them to get a fresh start. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for most people to file for bankruptcy because they cannot afford $2,000 for a bankruptcy lawyer. Our average user erases ~$40,000 in debt. I started Upsolve when I was a law school research assistant in college. We were testing out the effectiveness of legal self-help packets for people who could not afford attorneys. I set out to turn these paper packets into a digital product. My co-founder Jonathan Petts spent ten years doing pro bono bankruptcies in his spare time as a corporate attorney. This is where he saw pe

Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees

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New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

Article URL: https://bartongeorge.io/2019/01/23/the-new-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-now-available-in-the-us-europe-and-canada/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980476 Points: 428 # Comments: 423 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HrgSPh via

Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

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New best story on Hacker News: Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud

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