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Facebook Bans Far-Right Groups and Prominent Hate Figures

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Idaho legislators approve law requiring transparency for risk assessment tools

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Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch

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The Most Modern of Modern Sports

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IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery

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Ask HN: Machine learning resources for audio processing

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Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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New best story on Hacker News: Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation

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New best story on Hacker News: LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

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Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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Leaflet – social media platform built with Node.js and MongoDB

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What is nexus? And where did it come from?

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Lessons from the Long Depression

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What is nexus? And where did it come from?

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Leaflet – social media platform built with Node.js and MongoDB

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Historian uses lasers to unlock mysteries of Gothic cathedrals

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Basecamp built a $100B business by doing less on purpose

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Google accused of sabotaging Firefox, again

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Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts

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Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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Google accused of sabotaging Firefox, again

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Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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The Wire Image of a Network Protocol

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God's Number Is 20 (2010)

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Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts

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Interface Dispatch (2018)

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First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus

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Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/16/gene-wolfe-science-fiction-author-dies-aged-87 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681682 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Zom3V8 via

Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87

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First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus

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Interface Dispatch (C++, Java, C#, Go, and Rust)

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Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking

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New best story on Hacker News: I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs

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Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Creating Heatmap from Scratch in Python

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Lessons from the Long Depression

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Optimizing Inefficiency: the quest for the worst sorting algorithm

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Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything

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Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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OneSignal Is Hiring Ruby on Rails and Rust Developers in San Mateo

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Creating Heatmap from Scratch in Python

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Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything

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OneSignal Is Hiring Ruby on Rails and Rust Developers in San Mateo

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Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers

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Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers

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Webhose Uses Image Recognition to Identify Illicit Content on the Dark Web

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Webhose Uses Image Recognition to Identify Illicit Content on the Dark Web

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Classic Usborne Computer Science Books/Comics as PDFs

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New best story on Hacker News: Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist

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Pachyderm Raised $10M and Is Looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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Advanced NLP with SpaCy

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Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

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Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History

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Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs

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The Parker “51”

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Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library

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The Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules

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I found 2 identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs with total 27,740 Skittles

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Google OAuth Login Issues

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Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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You Are No Longer Safe in the Crowd

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Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud

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‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy

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A Chicago Woman Fell Victim to Candida Auris, a Drug-Resistant Fungus

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How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

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Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system

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Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns

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Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set

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Meshroom: Open-Source Photogrammetry Software

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I found 2 identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs with total 27,740 Skittles

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Advanced NLP with SpaCy

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Microsoft Bing Fire Tokenizer – 10x Faster Than NLTK

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Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History

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Popular Google Play Store Apps Are Abusing Permissions and Committing Ad Fraud

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Recursive Drawing

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The Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules

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Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

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Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs

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You Are No Longer Safe in the Crowd

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‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy

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A Chicago Woman Fell Victim to Candida Auris, a Drug-Resistant Fungus

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Google OAuth Login Issues

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A Practical Guide to Hyperparameter Optimization

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The Parker “51”

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Meshroom: Open-Source Photogrammetry Software

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Obfuscated Erlang

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The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart

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Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns

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Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set

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Pachyderm Raised $10M and Is Looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

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Nothing Fails Like Success

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How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

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Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system

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Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

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The Moral Order of Panera

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Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015)

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How the quantum search algorithm works

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