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Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57

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'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be duped by the news

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'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be duped by the news

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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, with the help of a checklist

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Nasa Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses (2015)

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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, with the help of a checklist

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Show HN: MLJAR – build machine learning models without coding

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Nasa Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses

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New study shows grim outlook for future of Air Force pilot shortage

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Stripe Acquires Touchtech

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/17/stripe-acquires-touchtech-updates-apis-to-prep-for-strong-customer-authentication-in-europe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682320 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2VPKl8h via

AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story

Article URL: http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/04/17/aoc-quit-facebook-the-media-bungled-the-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682288 Points: 18 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2V9zLf0 via

New study shows grim outlook for future of Air Force pilot shortage

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Why the Instagram founders really quit

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/4/17/18411363/why-instagram-founders-quit-hamburger-button-location-tracking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681769 Points: 34 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GgR2to via

Foxconn's Gou Runs for Taiwan President, Citing Message from Sea Goddess

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/foxconn-s-gou-says-sea-goddess-backs-his-run-for-taiwan-leader Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681376 Points: 25 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2vh2SyN via

Announcing AMP Real URL

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AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story

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Stripe Acquires Touchtech

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Announcing AMP Real URL

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New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall

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We finally know why the Instagram founders quit

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Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

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Foxconn's Gou Runs for Taiwan President, Citing Message from Sea Goddess

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‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/16/climate/glaciers-melting-alaska-washington.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681365 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2UI464W via

XIX is hiring front end developers

As a front end engineer, you'll be responsible for improving XIX web client using your extensive knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You will work with real-time data streams, engineer for performance across browsers, and delight people by making the best software you can imagine. Crucial: being humble, courageous and hungry. What you did is more important than vanilla credentials. We are taking on a challenge that bigger than any of us individually, so if you are up for the challenge and not biased by your past experience, shoot us a note. ## What you will be doing - Developing user-facing features end-to-end in a web application - Collecting usage metrics and implement dashboards for analysis - Working with the engineering team to integrate new features and ensure high maintainability # What you should have - 3+ years of experience writing client-side JavaScript - Expertise in building complex layouts with CSS and HTML - Experience building and debugging complex systems

Making the obvious code fast (2016)

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‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’

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How to knit a sports car with carbon fibre

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Making the obvious code fast (2016)

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Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless in Seattle

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Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations

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XIX is hiring hungry, humble and courageous Front End developer

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Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge

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Why I write fake online reviews

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Anatomy of the 4040 Disk Drive

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Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless in Seattle

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'Why I write fake online reviews'

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Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/fluent-1-0-a-localization-system-for-natural-sounding-translations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680662 Points: 34 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2ZiSXWU via

Why aren't figs considered vegan?

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-figs-considered-vegan/answer/Beth-Goldowitz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680445 Points: 68 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ZfIPOG via

Why aren't figs considered vegan?

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Brit Watchkeeper drone crashed because blocked sensor made algorithms crash

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Froebel’s Gifts

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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/qualcomm-and-apple-agree-to-drop-all-litigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19676499 Points: 408 # Comments: 100 from Hacker News: Front Page https://apple.co/2Gu7yaZ via

Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/16/jack-dorsey-ted/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19676269 Points: 186 # Comments: 281 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2XhCNvq via

Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python

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New best story on Hacker News: 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

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New best story on Hacker News: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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New best story on Hacker News: Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

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New best story on Hacker News: “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”

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New best story on Hacker News: Microsimulation of Traffic Flow

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One year in, still no visa

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/04/17/one-year-in-still-no-visa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680288 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Im8QqF via

Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles

Article URL: https://www.golem.de/news/subdomain-takeover-microsoft-loses-control-over-windows-tiles-1904-140717.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680263 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PhwtRS via

Zendar is hiring hardware architect in Berkeley

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Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

Article URL: https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-to-transition-to-isrg-root/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19679946 Points: 81 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IzHEns via

Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware

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Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality

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Roshi: A large-scale CRDT set implementation for timestamped events

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Lupin III Manga Author Monkey Punch Passes Away at Age of 81

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Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain

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SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation Construction Begins. 2,200 Satellites in 5 Years

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Intel Exiting 5G Modems

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Zstandard v1.4.0

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How Relational Databases Work?

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Panic’s Next Editor

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Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows

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Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser

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Land of Lisp

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T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Runs into Resistance from DOJ Antitrust Staff

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First US Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway

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Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

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Intel Exiting 5G Modems

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Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware

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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation

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Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles

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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser

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Bosque Programming Language

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Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates

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Roshi: A large-scale CRDT set implementation for timestamped events

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Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows

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Zendar is hiring hardware architect in Berkeley

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Land of Lisp

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A Gentle Introduction to Text Summarization in Machine Learning

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Zstandard v1.4.0

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Panic’s Next Editor

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How to Train Your OpenAI Five

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Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

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Lupin III Manga Author Monkey Punch Passes Away at Age of 81

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Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality

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How Relational Databases Work?

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SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation Construction Begins. 2,200 Satellites in 5 Years

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CuPy – NumPy-compatible matrix library accelerated by CUDA

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Godot Engine – Announcing the Godot 2019 Showreel

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5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

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First US Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway

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T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Runs into Resistance from DOJ Antitrust Staff

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One year in, still no visa

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EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers

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Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain

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