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What Uber Left Behind in Asia

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Tor Browser disabled NoScript, but can't update

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Kyle Simpson: I’ve Forgotten More JavaScript Than Most People Ever Learn

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What Uber Left Behind in Asia

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A comprehensive list of UX clichés

Article URL: https://uxdesign.cc/a-comprehensive-and-honest-list-of-ux-clich%C3%A9s-96e2a08fb2e9?source=collection_home---4------2--------------------- Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832468 Points: 57 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2H29bwB via

Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/key-fobs-north-olmsted-ohio.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832439 Points: 31 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2DQmzSq via

What Is 768K Day, and Will It Cause Internet Outages?

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Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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A comprehensive (and honest) list of UX clichés

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The Shortest Research Paper Ever Published

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Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why

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Way to Spend Bad Days

Article URL: https://medium.com/@maartenvandoorn/the-best-way-to-spend-really-bad-days-5d2e3e3be897 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832532 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PLzyd4 via

Claims that breakfast is a health panacea may be unsupported

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/1/18206873/breakfast-diet-weight-loss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832270 Points: 26 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Wt0bpY via

The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)

Article URL: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/frankly-we-do-give-damn-relationship-between-profanity-honesty Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832168 Points: 45 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://stanford.io/2j1q1hK via

The Six-Fold Nature of Snow

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Saving a Million People from a Cyclone

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/world/asia/cyclone-fani-india-evacuations.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831954 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2DHg5W7 via

Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

Article URL: http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/04/biomarker-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-identified.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831932 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://stan.md/2Vv3hMH via

Lys, a language that compiles to WebAssembly

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The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)

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The Six-Fold Nature of Snow

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Saving a Million People from a Cyclone

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Metamorphic Testing

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Way to Spend Bad Days

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DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”

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Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?

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Precise timing of machine code with Linux perf

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Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay

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Cereal companies created a myth about breakfast. Researchers keep debunking it

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Lys, a language that compiles to WebAssembly

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New best story on Hacker News: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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New best story on Hacker News: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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New best story on Hacker News: TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat

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New best story on Hacker News: Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

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DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”

Article URL: https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-proposes-the-do-not-track-act-of-2019-316258 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831991 Points: 24 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://selnd.com/2DJlhsx via

400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands

Article URL: https://www.apnews.com/fac7326cd5dc4a89bf11599638100da4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831748 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VegPgg via

One page, four inscriptions, three households

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400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands

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One page, four inscriptions, three households

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Listen to jungle sounds with the SAFE project

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What No One Is Telling You About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes

Article URL: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831919 Points: 63 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Y8OSU9 via

Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

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Airbnb Spawned an Ecosystem of Startups

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Everything I Know: Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki

Article URL: https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831526 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2J4h1Hy via

Everything I Know: Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki

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DNSCrypt – how expired certificates became a thing of the past

Article URL: https://00f.net/2019/05/04/fixing-expired-certificates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830910 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2J2Xubl via

Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?

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DNSCrypt – how expired certificates became a thing of the past

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“I Fell In Love With My Direct Report”

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Network Offloading in Openwrt [pdf]

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Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model

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Applying the Gestalt Principles to Code

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Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

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Graph Matching Networks for Learning the Similarity of Graph Structured Objects

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Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993

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Cost of serving billions of images per month

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The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)

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“I Fell In Love With My Direct Report”

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Network Offloading in Openwrt [pdf]

Article URL: https://openwrtsummit.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/hauke-mehrtens.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831385 Points: 22 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2H49Ygz via

A Violent Splash of Magma That May Have Made the Moon

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/science/moon-earth-collision.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831272 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2ZRPCOO via

After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (2014)

Article URL: https://feld.com/archives/2014/06/first-big-success-whats-next.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830264 Points: 38 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2J15CsF via

Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay

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The Janus Cosmological Model: Negative Masses on the Other Side of the Universe

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OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model

Article URL: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/#update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830042 Points: 131 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DKm8ZW via

The Mind-Boggling Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/puzzle-balls-from-guangzhou Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829932 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WusROQ via

Goro Shimura has died

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Learning new skills in InfoSec without getting overwhelmed

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The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/behind-scenes-national-zoo-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-180960704/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829460 Points: 67 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ilrpes via

My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era

Article URL: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-my-husband-became-a-poster-child-of-the-post-antibiotic-superbug-era Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829457 Points: 96 # Comments: 59 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ZHmpGx via

I do not use a debugger (2016)

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/21/i-do-not-use-a-debugger/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829435 Points: 99 # Comments: 125 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AoFSkj via

Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

Article URL: https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/04/08/health/99-year-old-backward-organs-medical-oddity/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829412 Points: 197 # Comments: 48 from Hacker News: Front Page https://cnn.it/2GXSBgh via

Graph Matching Networks for Learning the Similarity of Graph Structured Objects

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Anti-Stokes excitation of solid-state quantum emitters for nanoscale thermometry

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Applying the Gestalt Principles to Code

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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control

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Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)

I noticed I couldn't connect to archive.is, eventually I figured out it was an issue with cloudflare DNS, 1.1.1.1. Checking nslookup confirms this: nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1 Server: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: archive.is Address: 127.0.0.4 nslookup archive.is 8.8.8.8 Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: archive.is Address: 94.16.117.236 Cloudflare is returning a localhost address which prevents you from accessing the website. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 Points: 265 # Comments: 156 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2H1GaRA via

Spaced Repetition

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Cost of serving billions of images per month

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New best story on Hacker News: Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests

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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control

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Cultural Tattoos Invisible in Wet Collodion Prints (2018)

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A Violent Splash of Magma That May Have Made the Moon

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Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay

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Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)

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Learning new skills in InfoSec without getting overwhelmed

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After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (2014)

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The Janus Cosmological Model: Negative Masses on the Other Side of the Universe

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On Perks

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A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (2014)

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A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics

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My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era

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Spaced Repetition

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Anti-Stokes excitation of solid-state quantum emitters for nanoscale thermometry

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I do not use a debugger (2016)

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People's sense of control over actions is reduced when angry or afraid: study

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Goro Shimura has died

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The Mind-Boggling Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls

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