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Losing Your Privacy in the Digital Age: Share Your Stories

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Losing Your Privacy in the Digital Age: Share Your Stories

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We must revive Gopherspace

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Nuclear Waste Dumpsters in Massachusettes Are Costing Taxpayers a Fortune

Article URL: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/31/these-dumpsters-old-nuclear-waste-are-costing-you-billions/lw7aIpcWOhmn3ThjeqEnVP/story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178776 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IrPjFM via

We must revive Gopherspace

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Nuclear Waste Dumpsters in Massachusettes Are Costing Taxpayers a Fortune

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New experimental drug rapidly repairs age-related memory loss and improves mood

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When Gravity Breaks Down

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New experimental drug rapidly repairs age-related memory loss and improves mood

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Closed-door meetings on unions preceded Amazon's withdrawal

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Google .dev domain early access

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Closed-door meetings on unions preceded Amazon's withdrawal

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Google .dev domain early access

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A captcha so fiendish only a robot could solve it

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Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners

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A captcha so fiendish only a robot could solve it

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Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners

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Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment

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Further Reflections on Amanita Muscaria as an Edible Species (2012)

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Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment

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Further Reflections on Amanita Muscaria as an Edible Species (2012)

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Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?

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Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?

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The reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612874/the-real-reason-america-is-scared-of-huawei-internet-connected-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178402 Points: 7 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GhK49M via

Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data

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How to Secure a Linux Server

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The reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything

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How to Secure a Linux Server

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Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data

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How Wild Was Wild Bill Hickok?

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How Wild Was Wild Bill Hickok?

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New best story on Hacker News: Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine

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Two Starkly Similar Novels and the Puzzle of Plagiarism

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Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer

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Browning Fever: A story of fandom, literary societies, and impenetrable verse

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Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer

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Two Starkly Similar Novels and the Puzzle of Plagiarism

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Move Over Actors and Artists, Software Developers Are True Creative Heroes

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Spoofing Google Search Results

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Move Over Actors and Artists, Software Developers Are True Creative Heroes

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Spoofing Google Search Results

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Master art forger Eric Hebborn keeps 'playing a great trick from the grave'

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GDPR Like Privacy Legislation Proposed to U.S. Lawmakers [pdf]

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GDPR Like Privacy Legislation Proposed to U.S. Lawmakers [pdf]

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IIR filters can be evaluated in parallel

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IIR filters can be evaluated in parallel

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New best story on Hacker News: Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

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New best story on Hacker News: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

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New best story on Hacker News: You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make

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Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Developers (Toronto, Canada)

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They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929)

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Colin Kroll’s rise and untimely death

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The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing

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Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near

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Adblockers Performance Study

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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city

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Intern at a YC Company

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A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in Cobol

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First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

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Coding Intentionally in Bash Grains

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Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

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Modern Alternatives to PGP

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Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes

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Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

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Serial art thief arrested again

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Pelagic Thoroughbreds

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Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine

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Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview

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Google needed to build a graph serving system

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First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

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They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929)

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Serial art thief arrested again

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Intern at a YC Company

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Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

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Adblockers Performance Study

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Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview

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Aether for Redditors

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Incompleteness ex Machina – proving Gödel's theorems in terms of algorithms [pdf]

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Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

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Modern Alternatives to PGP

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Colin Kroll’s rise and untimely death

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Coding Intentionally in Bash Grains

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Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Developers (Toronto, Canada)

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Show HN: Cortex – machine learning infrastructure for developers

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Distributed web not ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet

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Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine

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What principal investigators taught me about my failure to land tenure

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Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near

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The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing

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Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes

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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city

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A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in Cobol

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Pelagic Thoroughbreds

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Google needed to build a graph serving system

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Controlling a 2D Robotic Arm with Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks

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Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend

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The Biggest Economic Divides Aren’t Regional, They’re Local

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Leon: An open-source personal assistant

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