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15 Years Addicted to Heroin – 35 Lessons Learned

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15 Years Addicted to Heroin – 35 Lessons Learned

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Filipino town attempts to ban gossip

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Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Known to Science

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-dark-matter-detector-just-detected-one-of-the-rarest-events-ever-in-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756590 Points: 48 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PwYK6N via

Persistence of Gravitational-Wave Memory

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PepsiCo sues Indian farmers for growing trademarked potatoes

Article URL: https://thehill.com/policy/international/440773-pepsico-sues-indian-farmers-for-growing-trademarked-potatoes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765375 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ZBnRtM via

Customers furious over days-long outage at A2 Hosting

Article URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/26/a2_hosting_outage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765338 Points: 7 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2vnXfyI via

Data Positivism Since World War II [pdf]

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Customers furious over days-long outage at A2 Hosting

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Data Positivism Since World War II [pdf]

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PepsiCo sues Indian farmers for growing trademarked potatoes

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If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/opinion/facebook-fine-ftc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19764892 Points: 11 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2W8AtXk via

If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?

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Librem 5 April Update

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Librem 5 April Update

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A Dark Matter Detector Just Recorded One of the Rarest Events Known to Science

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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)

Article URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/sicm_edition_2/toc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765019 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UH29kp via

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (2016)

Article URL: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19764916 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ELrIxd via

Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/technology/apple-screen-time-trackers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19764896 Points: 106 # Comments: 49 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2UZN1DS via

Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/private-space-launch-firms-in-china-race-to-orbit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19760421 Points: 72 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ZAXAvE via

Slack S-1

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764925/000162828019004786/slacks-1.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19757013 Points: 547 # Comments: 435 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GJi2TK via

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

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The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained

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Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction

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Fighting for Wisdom Inside the Ring

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Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit

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GPS Tracking Software – Free and Open Source System

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Top languages in use 2000-2019 [languages seen in US job listings]

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Top languages in use 2000-2019 [languages seen in US job listings]

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SETL programming language (2009)

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Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences

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Lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/how-lobbyists-rewrote-washington-state-privacy-law-microsoft-amazon-regulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19764372 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://politi.co/2J6RtK3 via

Possible blood test for colon cancer

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Why the long face? The language of equine emotions

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Lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law

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Possible blood test for colon cancer

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Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences – Nature

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GNU SETL

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Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking into GPS Tracking

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WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page

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WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page

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The Serial-Killer Detector (2017)

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The Metrics of Backpacks

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The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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New best story on Hacker News: Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, Builds disabled

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New best story on Hacker News: TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines

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New best story on Hacker News: Slack S-1

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New best story on Hacker News: Google Is Eating Our Mail

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New best story on Hacker News: Name one thing in this photo

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The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Account Executive for B2B Flying Autonomous Vehicle Software (Iris Automation)

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China Exploits Fleet of U.S. Satellites to Strengthen Police and Military Power

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-exploits-fleet-of-u-s-satellites-to-strengthen-police-and-military-power/ar-BBWdrFk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763576 Points: 59 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GL4CGW via

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)

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Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, Builds disabled

Received this email a few minutes ago: "On Thursday, April 25th, 2019, we discovered unauthorized access to a single Hub database storing a subset of non-financial user data. Upon discovery, we acted quickly to intervene and secure the site. We want to update you on what we've learned from our ongoing investigation, including which Hub accounts are impacted, and what actions users should take. Here is what we’ve learned: During a brief period of unauthorized access to a Docker Hub database, sensitive data from approximately 190,000 accounts may have been exposed (less than 5% of Hub users). Data includes usernames and hashed passwords for a small percentage of these users, as well as Github and Bitbucket tokens for Docker autobuilds. Actions to Take: - We are asking users to change their password on Docker Hub and any other accounts that shared this password. - For users with autobuilds that may have been impacted, we have revoked GitHub tokens and access keys, and ask ...

Interview School – Mock Interview Software with AI-Assisted Grading

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Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server

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The Use of Assert() in SQLite

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Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

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Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

Article URL: https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/02/google_index_coverage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19762907 Points: 130 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SDiJF1 via

E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/e-trade-is-said-to-be-close-to-launching-cryptocurrency-trading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19762622 Points: 86 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2vkXSJo via

The Newbie Photographer’s Survival Guide

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RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS

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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

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Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”

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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables

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Can Uber ever make money?

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Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

Article URL: https://blog.yugabyte.com/6-technical-challenges-developing-a-distributed-sql-database/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19759101 Points: 192 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IWvmFX via

Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React

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Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet

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TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hides-its-free-file-page-from-search-engines Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758126 Points: 821 # Comments: 246 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DyBD7i via

Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, Builds disabled

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China Exploits Fleet of U.S. Satellites to Strengthen Police and Military Power

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Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)

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Account Executive for B2B Flying Autonomous Vehicle Software (Iris Automation)

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E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading

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RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS

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Psychology of Human Misjudgement by Charlie Munger (A Summary)

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Can Uber ever make money?

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The Use of Assert() in SQLite

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A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers

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The Serial-Killer Detector (2017)

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Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React

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Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

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Show HN: Quinesnake – A quine that plays snake over its own source

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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables

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Robots That Learn to Use Improvised Tools

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VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten

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Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”

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Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet

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College of Theseus

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Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server

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Slack S-1

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Show HN: How to draw your home in 3D in less than 1 hour

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The Newbie Photographer’s Survival Guide

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TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines

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Interview School – Mock Interview Software with AI-Assisted Grading

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