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The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV

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Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017)

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Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app

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Sphero RVR – The Go Anywhere, Do Anything Programmable Robot

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Canvas Fingerprinting Use and Diversity on the Web

Article URL: https://antoinevastel.com/browser%20fingerprinting/2019/02/19/canvas-fingerprint-on-the-web.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198462 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Xchmg3 via

Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app

Article URL: https://blog.appfigures.com/shazam-for-ios-sheds-3rd-party-sdks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198819 Points: 12 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GTH8jv via

Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again

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Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output

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Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Chronic Illness

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Why you think you’re right, even when you’re wrong (2017)

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A Whale's Afterlife

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Jeff Bezos Presenting at YC Startup School 2008

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Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazon-caught-selling-counterfeits-of-publishers-computer-books-again/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199135 Points: 42 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ea644s via

Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Chronic Illness

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/smarter-living/five-things-i-wish-i-knew-chronic-illness-crohns-disease-ibd.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198812 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2Gxqqag via

You Think You’re Right, Even When You’re Wrong

Article URL: https://ideas.ted.com/why-you-think-youre-right-even-when-youre-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198662 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2zkK9ph via

Four-Day Week Trial: Study Finds Lower Stress but No Cut in Output

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/feb/19/four-day-week-trial-study-finds-lower-stress-but-no-cut-in-output Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198649 Points: 30 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TR3CoN via

Jeff Bezos Presenting at YC Startup School 2008

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A Whale's Afterlife

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-whales-afterlife Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196765 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Naz3YA via

Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198188 Points: 12 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SLxtlS via

The Effect of Online and Face-to-Face Feedback on Self-Esteem

Article URL: https://urbanwomanmag.com/the-effect-of-online-face-to-face-feedback-on-self-esteem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19197936 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GNJQXs via

Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance

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Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a human?

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The Sea Was Not a Mask

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The Effect of Online and Face-to-Face Feedback on Self-Esteem

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The Sea Was Not a Mask

Article URL: https://reallifemag.com/dispatches/the-sea-was-not-a-mask Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19192142 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BFuQb4 via

Flavors of SIMD

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Industrial Opportunities for Startups

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Industrial Opportunities for Startups

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Wind River VxWorks Platforms 6.9 RTOS [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.windriver.com/products/product-notes/PN_VE_6_9_Platform_0311.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191691 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ndqhcj via

Underactuated Robotics

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Underactuated Robotics

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Wind River VxWorks Platforms 6.9 RTOS [pdf]

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Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?

I've seen a couple[1][2] of posts recently about personal websites/blogs where some people seemed hesitant to post their own site, and perhaps more didn't post at all to avoid self-promotion. So I thought, why not ditch the modesty and just have a post where you can shamelessly plug your own website. I love reading your comments here, so let's see what you all have put on your websites. [1]: http://bit.ly/2V6lEUh [2]: http://bit.ly/2Gxgyw7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19197533 Points: 7 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SJIfJn via

Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?

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Machine Learning Data Set Preparation, Part 5

Article URL: https://www.seanmcwillie.com/2019/02/tutorial-machine-learning-data-set-preparation-part-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196543 Points: 22 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Eiwm4o via

Machine Learning Data Set Preparation, Part 5

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Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal

Article URL: https://github.com/octobanana/fltrdr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195819 Points: 27 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Eh75HM via

A Plan for Spam (2002)

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New best story on Hacker News: A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

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Shunting-yard algorithm

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19190208 Points: 46 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1mgABQW via

Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/02/15/inside-oodi-helsinkis-new-flagship-library Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19189631 Points: 62 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://econ.st/2TO2i60 via

Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts

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An Honest Living

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Magic Lantern

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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them

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Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave

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Show HN: Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing

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Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library

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Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

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Deep learning may need a new programming language

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China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland

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Home-built 737 cockpit

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Advent of Code 2018, in Coq

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Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet

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An Online Dictionary Integration to the Command Line

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Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

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BlazingSQL – GPU SQL Engine Now Runs Over 20X Faster Than Apache Spark

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V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison

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Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal

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Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes

Article URL: https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-questions-are-too-hard-and-too-short Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19192676 Points: 457 # Comments: 456 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DSlf0x via

BlazingSQL – GPU SQL Engine Now Runs Over 20X Faster Than Apache Spark

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3264 conics tangent to five conics

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The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013)

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WorldWideWeb

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Jasper Johns, American Legend

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Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients

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JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs

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Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes

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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them

Article URL: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/07/google-location-police-search-warrants Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196501 Points: 31 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SkhJq3 via

Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

Article URL: https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196489 Points: 174 # Comments: 59 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2vbsRcP via

China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/china-unveils-plan-to-tie-hong-kong-macau-closer-to-mainland Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196414 Points: 29 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2tq7Ms9 via

Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

Article URL: http://cdm.link/2019/02/apple-2018-glitch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196354 Points: 113 # Comments: 70 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2NeA0Pw via

Show HN: Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing

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An Online Dictionary Integration to the Command Line

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V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison

Article URL: https://lambdalabs.com/blog/8-v100-server-on-prem-vs-p3-instance-tco-analysis-cost-comparison/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196328 Points: 95 # Comments: 89 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2E2qGLG via

Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts

Article URL: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/02/07/gut-bugs-may-shape-schizophrenia/#.XGtu1KSIaaO Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196266 Points: 99 # Comments: 47 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SHPuS8 via

Jasper Johns, American Legend

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Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/why-a-grape-turns-into-a-fireball-in-a-microwave/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195692 Points: 146 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SaBR8T via

Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

Article URL: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/RLBook.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195670 Points: 82 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2irbhr7 via

Deep learning may need a new programming language

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/18/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-deep-learning-may-need-a-new-programming-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195239 Points: 9 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TVQezC via

JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/formulas-for-google-docs/kgjbgmonlnhglokmfnpnklegakfknbeh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195184 Points: 48 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SaPEfJ via

A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies

Article URL: https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1097307043881308161 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195148 Points: 191 # Comments: 92 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1097307043881308161 via

Home-built 737 cockpit

Article URL: https://www.flightdeck737.be/en/pc/visuals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19194956 Points: 102 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Gwudoe via

Advent of Code 2018, in Coq

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WorldWideWeb

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Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift

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Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

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BlazingSQL – GPU SQL Engine Now Runs Over 20X Faster Than Apache Spark

Article URL: https://blog.blazingdb.com/blazingsql-the-gpu-sql-engine-now-runs-over-20x-faster-than-apache-spark-1b0bffc990a9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19192625 Points: 159 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2In2Yho via

Shunting-yard algorithm

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Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift

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A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies

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A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

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New best story on Hacker News: Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes

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New best story on Hacker News: Magic Lantern

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New best story on Hacker News: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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New best story on Hacker News: WireGuard for MacOS

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