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Microsoft Is Winning the Techlash

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Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?

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Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)

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Twitter won't ban Neo-Nazis because the algorithm might ban GOP politicians too

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Show HN: Sauron – an web framework in rust which adheres to The Elm Architecture

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Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project

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Google Is Eating Our Mail

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Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)

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Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future

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Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak

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California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants

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The Problem With Hexagons

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Show HN: Sauron – an web framework in rust which adheres to The Elm Architecture

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Google Is Eating Our Mail

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Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project

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Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project

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Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)

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The cognitive ecology of the Internet (2017) [pdf]

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Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people

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Welcome to Shanghai, the Capital of the Future

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California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants

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The Longest Year in History (2008)

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The Problem With Hexagons

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Cloudflare's CTO Wants to Shake Up How We Think About VPNs

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Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia

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Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people

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Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak

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An open-source collection of interview questions

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Ethercombing: Finding Secrets in Popular Places

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What to ask in an interview? open-source collection of interview questions

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The Q-BAL programming language

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Principles and Techniques of Data Science

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A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90338929/the-former-lead-designer-of-gmail-just-fixed-gmail-on-his-own Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19753814 Points: 88 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GGk6vK via

A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension

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New best story on Hacker News: Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor

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Principles and Techniques of Data Science

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Microsoft is now a $1T company

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Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered

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Microsoft is now a $1T company

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Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered

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New best story on Hacker News: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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New best story on Hacker News: People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours

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New best story on Hacker News: MuseNet

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New best story on Hacker News: Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

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New best story on Hacker News: Vim.wasm

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Lisp Operating System (2015)

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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing

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New best story on Hacker News: Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution

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Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring an Android Lead Engineer in Vancouver

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How to Read a Schematic

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About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown

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After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On

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Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/n-y-opens-investigation-into-facebook-s-email-harvesting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19753805 Points: 218 # Comments: 66 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2Zsdicu via

Turnover Hits Apple’s Famed Industrial Design Team

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Stepping Away from Sass

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Photography and racial bias

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Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly

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The Markup faces staff exodus and funder scrutiny following Julia Angwin ouster

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Evolutionary Tree-Structured Storage (2014) [pdf]

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Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor

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People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours

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Who Killed Lard? (2012)

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Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI

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MuseNet

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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks

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The Improbable Success of the Curveball

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Up close and personal with the women of the Japanese Yakuza

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How to Read a Schematic

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MuseNet

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After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On

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About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown

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Name one thing in this photo

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Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor

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Turnover Hits Apple’s Famed Industrial Design Team

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Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring an Android Lead Engineer in Vancouver

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Lisp Operating System (2015)

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Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.

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Stepping Away from Sass

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Up close and personal with the women of the Japanese Yakuza

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Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks

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Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4k-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt

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KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly

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Photography and racial bias

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Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted

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Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI

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Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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The FreedomBox enables you to control your view of the internet

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Evolutionary Tree-Structured Storage (2014) [pdf]

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EMUBook (2000)

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Who Killed Lard? (2012)

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Ireland blocks the world on data privacy

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Matrox History: A Computer Graphics Also-Ran’s Second Life

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The Improbable Success of the Curveball

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The Markup faces staff exodus and funder scrutiny following Julia Angwin ouster

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How Germany used radio waves to guide night bombing raids in WWII

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People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours

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