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Show HN: Chord Assist – An accessible smart guitar for the blind, deaf and mute

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Chromecast Ultra force use of Google DNS

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Show HN: Chord Assist – An accessible smart guitar for the blind, deaf and mute

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What could end the world as we know it?

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The Nuclear Option

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What could end the world as we know it?

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Infinite loops and doomed machines

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Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution

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A New Framework for Flexible and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research

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A New Framework for Flexible and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research

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Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution

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Lazarus Release 2.0.0

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Nurx Is Looking for Senior BE Engineers

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Lazarus Release 2.0.0

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Nurx Is Looking for Senior BE Engineers

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The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer

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Can Big Science Be Too Big?

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Scientists call for ban on lethal, autonomous robots

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The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer

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Scientists call for ban on lethal, autonomous robots

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Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps

Article URL: https://www.voorhoede.nl/en/blog/bluetooth-anywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161130 Points: 8 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TR5AFG via

Modern Robotics

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Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s Complicated

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China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says

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Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones?

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The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers

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The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers

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Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s Complicated

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/14/did-new-york-lose-anything-with-amazons-rejection-its-complicated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169934 Points: 4 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2TQoCMe via

China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-15/china-could-use-medical-data-to-blackmail-americans-report-says Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169887 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2tl5MkS via

Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones?

Article URL: https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/why_static/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169798 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DyPERI via

Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps

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Search Engine Art: Internet Imperialism and the Image in Context(2018)[pdf]

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Burning Man finally fights Instagram culture and bans high-end camp

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/burning-man-finally-fights-instagram-culture-and-bans-high-end-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169588 Points: 5 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BAofyA via

Burning Man finally fights Instagram culture and bans high-end camp

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What Is Generative Adversary Networks GAN? (2018)

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Moving from Ruby to Rust

Article URL: http://deliveroo.engineering/2019/02/14/moving-from-ruby-to-rust.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19166020 Points: 184 # Comments: 142 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EamQQL via

Totemic (YC S17) Is Looking for a Design Lead

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Totemic (YC S17) Is Looking for a Design Lead

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Moving from Ruby to Rust

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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/amazon-hq2-queens.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163281 Points: 985 # Comments: 882 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2Ndkgwx via

JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments

Article URL: https://decryptmedia.com/5173/jp-morgan-coin-cryptocurrency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19162854 Points: 220 # Comments: 195 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DDeJLh via

I Bought a House with Solar Panels

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-sunrun-solar-panels/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19162382 Points: 372 # Comments: 267 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2E9gWPQ via

JP Morgan rolls out first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform paymentsd

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/jp-morgan-is-rolling-out-the-first-us-bank-backed-cryptocurrency-to-transform-payments--.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161457 Points: 53 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://cnb.cx/2IdeUCw via

PHYS771 Lecture 19: Time Travel

Article URL: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec19.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161028 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GozRbZ via

Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time

Article URL: https://longreads.com/2019/02/11/atlantic-city-is-really-going-down-this-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19142979 Points: 67 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TIemWB via

PHYS771 Lecture 19: Time Travel

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New best story on Hacker News: Winning the Blackbird Battle

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New best story on Hacker News: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

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New best story on Hacker News: Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

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The D Programming Language Conference 2019

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AI text generator not released for concerns about implications

Article URL: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19168712 Points: 10 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2tmX7yr via

Zendar (YC S17) Is Looking for a FPGA Engineer

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Chrome Will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

Article URL: https://www.chromestory.com/2019/02/chrome-scroll-to-text/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19168442 Points: 104 # Comments: 87 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GH0Tul via

Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/climate/switzerland-glaciers-climate-change.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167777 Points: 39 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2SO9qSD via

Sample cloud-native application with microservices

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VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs

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Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer

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ECS back and forth: a journey from OOP programming to component-based models

Article URL: https://skypjack.github.io/ecs-baf-part-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19166910 Points: 45 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Gnntc0 via

A RISC-V CPU for $8

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/14/new-part-day-a-risc-v-cpu-for-eight-dollars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19166326 Points: 146 # Comments: 42 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DCUPzT via

Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/hotpath-with-wasm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19166233 Points: 165 # Comments: 69 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2N7v5Ab via

24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today

Article URL: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2019-february-24-years-delphi.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19166201 Points: 115 # Comments: 70 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BBY6iV via

Opening the Filecoin Project Repos

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Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-14/regulating-facebook-twitter-and-instagram Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165286 Points: 167 # Comments: 152 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2SRHRYG via

RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption

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Winning the Blackbird Battle

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction

Article URL: http://www.basilica.ai/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-deep-feature-extraction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163724 Points: 238 # Comments: 47 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2togmYt via

Introducing draft pull requests

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Better Language Models and Their Implications

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You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make

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Chrome Will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Winning the Blackbird Battle

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A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete

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Modern Robotics

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The D Programming Language Conference 2019

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A RISC-V CPU for $8

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Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly

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24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today

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Better Language Models and Their Implications

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The Miracle of Applied Mathematics (2001) [pdf]

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You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction

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Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer

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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

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Sample cloud-native application with microservices

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AI text generator not released for concerns about implications

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Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger

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Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity

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JP Morgan rolls out first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform paymentsd

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Opening the Filecoin Project Repos

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The Nuclear Option

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ECS back and forth: a journey from OOP programming to component-based models

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VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs

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JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments

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RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption

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A Survey of Computability Logic

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I Bought a House with Solar Panels

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Introducing draft pull requests

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Zendar (YC S17) Is Looking for a FPGA Engineer

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Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time

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