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Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Developers (Toronto; Markham)

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Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Developers (Toronto; Markham)

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Quacks of Quedlinburg Deserves Its “Board Game of the Year” Win

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Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence

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Quacks of Quedlinburg Deserves Its “Board Game of the Year” Win

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Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence

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The role of Escobar’s residence in Medellín’s historical memory

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The Political Economy of the Safari

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The Political Economy of the Safari

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Speedrunning Windows 95

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What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling

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Older GPS devices are facing their own mini Y2K bug next month

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Older GPS devices are facing their own mini Y2K bug next month

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What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling

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Speedrunning Windows 95

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Porsche's Taycan EV has pulled in more than 20,000 deposits

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“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”

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The ‘Mad Genius’ Mystery

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“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”

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Porsche's Taycan EV has pulled in more than 20,000 deposits

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The ‘Mad Genius’ Mystery

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CERN cuts ties with 'sexist' scientist Alessandro Strumia

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US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021

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Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android

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Web Scraping with Electron

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Whither Speech Recognition? (1969) [pdf]

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US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021

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Best Deep Learning Courses and MOOCs: Updated for 2019

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Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android

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Web Scraping with Electron

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The Man with an Elephant’s Nose

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Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer in Montreal, QC

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The Guide to JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry

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Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer in Montreal, QC

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Cloudy with a Chance of War (2014)

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The Guide to JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry

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“It's done in hardware so it's cheap” (2012)

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Live coding a basic Go compiler with LLVM in 20 minutes

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Live coding a basic Go compiler with LLVM in 20 minutes

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I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal

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Individual differences in controlling access to working memory (2005)

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I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal

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The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here

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Show HN: ReadersChatter – Come start a chatter on a book

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Show HN: ReadersChatter – Come start a chatter on a book

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ProtonMail gets €2M from the EU to further develop the Proton ecosystem

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MathML in Chromium

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If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together

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CDC: Low-income parents send sick kids to school due to lack paid sick leave

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An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound

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H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians

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Sick marine mammals turning up on California beaches

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Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks, Part 2

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Show HN: My CV is also a bootloader

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Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?

I'm currently a lab technician with a background in microbiology and would love to get into software development; however, I lack experience and I feel I'm too old to ever get a job in the field. I'd appreciate any tip! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19343521 Points: 74 # Comments: 49 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Jax2NA via

A generalised solution to distributed consensus

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How to pass a programming interview (2016)

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight

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Updates from YC

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Animals are no less emotional than we are

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Usability Improvements in GCC 9

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The Foursquare of today is a location data giant

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Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak

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A Crisis of Identification

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Hard disks can be turned into listening devices

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New best story on Hacker News: Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin

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New best story on Hacker News: Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

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New best story on Hacker News: 800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

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New best story on Hacker News: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

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ProtonMail gets €2M from the EU to further develop the Proton ecosystem

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MathML in Chromium

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An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound

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A generalised solution to distributed consensus

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Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own

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Updates from YC

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Sick marine mammals turning up on California beaches

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight

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H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians

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Show HN: My CV is also a bootloader

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How to pass a programming interview (2016)

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Usability Improvements in GCC 9

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Animals are no less emotional than we are

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If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together

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Our Culture of Contempt

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CDC: Low-income parents send sick kids to school due to lack paid sick leave

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Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?

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Hard disks can be turned into listening devices

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The Emacs Package Developer's Handbook (2017)

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The Foursquare of today is a location data giant

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Gone in six seconds? Exploiting car alarms

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Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks, Part 2

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Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak

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Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin

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Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R

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Using TensorFlow to detect fish species

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RemedyBG: Replacing the Visual Studio Debugger

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Chrome and Windows Exploit: Security Beyond Bug Fixes

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A Crisis of Identification

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The Evolution of Baseball Scouting

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