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Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach

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Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is Elusive

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Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'

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Perchance to Dream

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Mimir (YC S15) Is Hiring a Computer Science Instructional Advocate

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Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach

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Girl’s $143,000 bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

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European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials

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Girl’s $143,000 bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

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Mimir (YC S15) Is Hiring a Computer Science Instructional Advocate

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European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials

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Newest coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot

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Newest coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot

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The Dead May Outnumber the Living on Facebook in 50 Years

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Language Shapes the Brain

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New brand

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The Dead May Outnumber the Living on Facebook in 50 Years

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New corporate brand and logo system

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Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure

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While Bioethics Fiddles

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Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure

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While Bioethics Fiddles

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I forgot how to manage a server

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Solo founders generate more revenue than organizations started by founder pairs

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I forgot how to manage a server

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Solo founders generate more revenue than organizations started by founder pairs

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Language Shapes the Brain

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John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir

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John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir

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The Many Benefits of Using a Monorepo

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Diesel is not better for the environment than electric

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List of Emerging Technologies proposed for export controls

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The Many Benefits of Using a Monorepo

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The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin

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List of Emerging Technologies proposed for export controls

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No, diesel is not better for the environment than electric

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Show HN: A Parallel Implementation of Graph2Vec

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Looking for Entropy in All the Wrong Places

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Show HN: Rust transform macro ident case

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Looking for Entropy in All the Wrong Places

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Show HN: Rust transform macro ident case

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Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel

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Apple Q2 Results

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Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (1976) [pdf]

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Apple Q2 Results

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New best story on Hacker News: Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

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New best story on Hacker News: I made a smart watch from scratch

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New best story on Hacker News: Have a personal web site

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New best story on Hacker News: I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)

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New best story on Hacker News: Jenkins Is Getting Old

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Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months

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Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

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Y Combinator's Essential Startup Advice – Michael Seibel [video]

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S/MIME Version 4.0 Message Specification

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A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k

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Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images

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Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)

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Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on 250M Protein Sequences

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N-Wheeled Cars

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Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard

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The Chemical History of a Candle (1848)

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Now dev – Serverless on localhost

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Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities

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Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems

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Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

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Intermediate Vim

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The Homogeneity of Instagram Travel Photos

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Facebook is redesigning its core app

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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young

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Show HN: Turn any WiFi into a persistent group chat

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U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data

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Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

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Improving Accuracy of Maps Using Anonymized GPS Traces

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Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding

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Modernity, Faith, and Martin Buber

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Alaskan halibut provides a glimpse of Amazon’s strategy with Whole Foods

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (2009)

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Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights

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S/MIME Version 4.0 Message Specification

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Intermediate Vim

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (2009)

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The Chemical History of a Candle (1848)

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Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

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Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months

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A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k

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Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard

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A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)

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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young

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Y Combinator's Essential Startup Advice – Michael Seibel [video]

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The Homogeneity of Instagram Travel Photos

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Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

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Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems

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Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities

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Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

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Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images

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Modernity, Faith, and Martin Buber

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Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data

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