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People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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The Banality of Empathy

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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-amazon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337456 Points: 88 # Comments: 70 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2XKNlEh via

The Persistent Economic Advantage of America’s Suburbs

Article URL: https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/cities-economic-performance-data-suburbs-urban-research/584284/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337153 Points: 13 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NSB4Ju via

Zuckerberg’s So-Called Shift Toward Privacy

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/zuckerberg-privacy-facebook.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337035 Points: 22 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Ty9oPj via

Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-why-college-degree-isnt-necessary-2019-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336925 Points: 54 # Comments: 80 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2H6flx1 via

Don't Sell Out the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Companies

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The Banality of Empathy

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New York City considering legislation to ban cashless retailers

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The Persistent Economic Advantage of America’s Suburbs

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People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Zuckerberg’s So-Called Shift Toward Privacy

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An Indian village that banned shoes

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Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful

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Optical Computing: A 60-Year Adventure (2009)

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Nasa captures unprecedented images of supersonic shockwaves

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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

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Splashdown of Crew Dragon DM-1

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Splashdown of Crew Dragon DM-1

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An Indian village that banned shoes

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How random can you be?

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Quotes from 1992

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Nasa captures unprecedented images of supersonic shockwaves

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-nasa-captures-unprecedented-images-supersonic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336401 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EW7ZKf via

Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time

Article URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/japans-tax-laws-get-way-women-working-full-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19335674 Points: 26 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EAmP7T via

My Hacker School Pairing Interview (2013)

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My Hacker School Pairing Interview (2013)

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Not So Random

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Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why you don't need a college degree to be successful

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Quotes from 1992

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Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash

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Hipster whines at tech mag, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster

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RNN-Based Handwriting Recognition in Gboard

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Website Database Security (2018)

Article URL: https://int64software.com/blog/2018/11/21/hardening-website-security-part-3-website-database-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336667 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2tWMeUr via

List of 30 European Tech Visas and Work Permits

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The Fascinating History of Autocorrect (2014)

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Hipster whines at tech mag, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster

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The new Skype for Web is live, unless you use Safari, Firefox, Opera

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/8/18255848/skype-for-web-hd-video-calling-recording-search-gallery-chrome-edge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336411 Points: 33 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NQslr5 via

China’s tech sector is in the doldrums

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/03/09/chinas-formerly-white-hot-tech-sector-is-in-the-doldrums Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19334913 Points: 16 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2TjQX1v via

RNN-Based Handwriting Recognition in Gboard

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Hardening Website Security – Part 3: Website Database Security

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List of 30 European Tech Visas and Work Permits

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The Fascinating History of Autocorrect (2014)

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The new Skype for Web is live, unless you use Safari, Firefox, Opera

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Unicorns in winter: China’s formerly white-hot tech sector is in the doldrums

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Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time

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Show HN: I'm a robot tech enthusiast and this is my robot website

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Show HN: I'm a robot tech enthusiast and this is my robot website

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It's not about how many countries you have been to

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It's not about how many countries you have been to

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How does Apple keep secrets so well? (2012)

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answer/Kim-Scheinberg?share=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19335539 Points: 25 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CbXSPF via

Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation

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Writing a Faster Jsonnet Compiler

Article URL: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/10/12/writing-a-faster-jsonnet-compiler.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19335295 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Okd8lu via

Sage is slowly moving toward being pip-installable

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Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges

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YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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Facebook’s Privacy Cake

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Equal pay in 1896: The trail-blazing women of Kew Gardens

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Writing a Simple Password Generator in Racket

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Nintendo Asks Mobile Developers to Curb Microtransactions

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800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

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How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

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A framework for creating Python/C++ polyglots

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Why do old books smell? [video]

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Uber Not Criminally Liable in Death of Woman Hit by Self-Driving Car

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The perils of federated protocols (2016)

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Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive

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Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (2014)

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John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science (2018)

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What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)

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YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

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Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation

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Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges

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Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight

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How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

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What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)

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Uber Not Criminally Liable in Death of Woman Hit by Self-Driving Car

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Sage is slowly moving toward being pip-installable

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Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive

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Facebook’s Privacy Cake

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A framework for creating Python/C++ polyglots

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Nintendo Asks Mobile Developers to Curb Microtransactions

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Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignature

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Scheduling in React

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Why do old books smell? [video]

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How does Apple keep secrets so well? (2012)

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Writing a Simple Password Generator in Racket

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Equal pay in 1896: The trail-blazing women of Kew Gardens

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Chickens Are Bullies – Can Their Behavior Teach Us About Our Own?

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Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (2014)

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Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design

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John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science (2018)

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A Superscalar Out-of-Order x86 Soft Processor for FPGA

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Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases

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Writing a Faster Jsonnet Compiler

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Writing a Book with Unix

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The perils of federated protocols (2016)

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A Romanian campus computer lab pentested the world and helped protect it (2018)

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Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers

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