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GLFW 3.3 Is Released

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Silicon Valley-Funded Privacy Think Tanks Fights to Unravel Privacy Protections

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The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673294 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UBZVrz via

Silicon Valley-Funded Privacy Think Tanks Fights to Unravel Privacy Protections

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The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

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How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle

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The Notre Dame fire and the future of history

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-notre-dame-fire-and-the-future-of-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673277 Points: 27 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2KK5a3Q via

The Notre Dame fire and the future of history

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Making Pictures with Data

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Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as You Think

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Work harder or the communists will win

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The Tragedy of Given-When-Then

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Guilded (YC S17) is hiring software engineers to connect esports teams (remote)

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Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-leveraged-facebook-user-data-fight-rivals-help-friends-n994706 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672795 Points: 27 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nbcnews.to/2KHhsKn via

Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders

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We Built a Facial Recognition Machine for $60

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/16/opinion/facial-recognition-new-york-city.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672493 Points: 48 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2UEVUm1 via

Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as You Think

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How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle

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Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends

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Work harder or the communists will win

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Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of Quills and Parchment. Now It’s Coming Back

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The Tragedy of Given-When-Then

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Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders

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Guilded (YC S17) is hiring software engineers to connect esports teams (remote)

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Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Learning a Regression

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We Built a (Legal) Facial Recognition Machine for $60

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Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastics-are-blowing-in-the-wind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672514 Points: 48 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2XdoQ1q via

Source Code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and Other Infocom Games on GitHub

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Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

Article URL: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/privacy-thats-iphone-but-is-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672335 Points: 61 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2Ui3DBI via

Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan

Article URL: https://lettersfromnj.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/call-me-by-my-name-deborah-abrams-kaplan/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671932 Points: 38 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2V4l2SF via

Source Code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and Other Infocom Games on GitHub

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After near-disaster, Oroville Dam spillway about to face its first big test

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Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

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Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind

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Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan

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GNU Awk 5.0.0 Released

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Parapsychology in the PRC: 1979 [pdf]

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Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire Senior Data Scientists

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Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire Senior Data Scientists

Article URL: https://boards.greenhouse.io/faire/jobs/4005276002?gh_jid=4005276002 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672094 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2vfK7vD via

GNU Awk 5.0.0 Released

Article URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-04/msg00002.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671983 Points: 25 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UfnS2T via

Don't take my DataCamp course

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Ask HN: Toolbox or library for simulating classical mechanics problems?

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“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”

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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

Article URL: https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671673 Points: 18 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UYCsQO via

“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”

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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

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New best story on Hacker News: Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

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New best story on Hacker News: Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris

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New best story on Hacker News: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers

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New best story on Hacker News: Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks

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CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring the First Customer Success Manager in Chicago

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'Secret' City of Heroes Emulator

Article URL: https://massivelyop.com/2019/04/15/score-city-of-heroes-emulator-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671153 Points: 13 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ddyg5o via

Venture capital firms are investing in astrology apps

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/style/astrology-apps-venture-capital.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671050 Points: 22 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2UZtxyj via

Microsimulation of Traffic Flow

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Wasmer: A Python library for executing WebAssembly binaries

Article URL: https://github.com/wasmerio/python-ext-wasm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19670826 Points: 57 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2KrWJKt via

From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education

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Research as a Stochastic Decision Process

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Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms

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A Bug in Apple’s Latest Marketing Campaign

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/04/15/the-bug-in-apples-latest-marketing-campaign/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19670024 Points: 135 # Comments: 63 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2IE4nip via

AI Helps Classify Lung Cancer at the Pathologist Level

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Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

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Ripgrep 11 Released

Article URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/11.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669789 Points: 244 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UldqXF via

Mass Production of iPhones to Start in India

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Time protection: the missing OS abstraction

Article URL: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/15/time-protection-the-missing-os-abstraction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669380 Points: 120 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2v5itBp via

Google Fiber to pay nearly $4M to Louisville in exit deal

Article URL: https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/google-fiber-to-pay-nearly-million-to-louisville-in-exit/article_d4c86640-5f85-11e9-8876-9f013c02d337.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669372 Points: 69 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UGopQv via

Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/experts-breach-at-it-outsourcing-giant-wipro/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669124 Points: 142 # Comments: 42 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GlUcMG via

LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/education/lebron-james-school-ohio.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19668821 Points: 373 # Comments: 143 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2ItK72T via

Mastodon and Keybase

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An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine and bytecode

Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/04/15/an-ebpf-overview-part-2-machine-and-bytecode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19668428 Points: 74 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PbFmw8 via

Death by PowerPoint: The slide that killed seven people

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Microsimulation of Traffic Flow

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LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

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Wasmer: A Python library for executing WebAssembly binaries

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Mastodon and Keybase

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Mass Production of iPhones to Start in India

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Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? What are we looking at?

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Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

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Venture capital firms are investing in astrology apps

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Time protection: the missing OS abstraction

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From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education

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Google Fiber to pay nearly $4M to Louisville in exit deal

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Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

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The Case for Formal Methods

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How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers

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Ripgrep 11 Released

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Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks

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From Babylon to Pascal with Perl 6

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Research as a Stochastic Decision Process

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A look at IBM S/360 core memory: In the 1960s, 128 kilobytes weighed 610 pounds

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AI Helps Classify Lung Cancer at the Pathologist Level

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'Secret' City of Heroes Emulator

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Virtually Unlimited Memory: Escaping the Chrome Sandbox

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CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring the First Customer Success Manager in Chicago

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Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms

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Death by PowerPoint: The slide that killed seven people

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An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine and bytecode

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A Bug in Apple’s Latest Marketing Campaign

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VW’s Former CEO Charged in Germany Over Diesel Rigging

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Wave Computing Launches TritonAI 64 Platform for High-Speed Inferencing

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