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VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car

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All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

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The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive

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The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive

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Joe Armstrong Obituary

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Joe Armstrong Obituary

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IBM’s 2019 Call for Code – $200K prize for natural disaster solutions

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IBM’s 2019 Call for Code – $200K prize for natural disaster solutions

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The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]

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Show HN: Map of Polish Composers

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The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]

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Keepass(dot)com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site

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Keepass(dot)com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site

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PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8 Released

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When Engineers Become Whistleblowers

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New best story on Hacker News: Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

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PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8 Released

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When Engineers Become Whistleblowers

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Software Engineering Lessons from Aviation

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Banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models

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Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests

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Remix is looking for a front-end engineer to help build better public transit

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Show HN: ShaderLab – My WebGL Social Network

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ESA Space CyberSecurity Call for Ideas

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Remix is looking for a front-end engineer to help build better public transit

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Banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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ESA Space CyberSecurity Call for Ideas

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Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests

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It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19866881 Points: 137 # Comments: 80 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2DY4BO6 via

Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models

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New best story on Hacker News: Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms

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It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

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Could 1989 Have Led to Democracy in China?

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E.O. Wilson Sounds Off on the Trouble With STEM

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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review

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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

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US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds

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Amazon wants to pay some US-based publishers to expand

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Amazon wants to pay some US-based publishers to expand

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Germany Installed Cables over a Highway to Power Electric Trucks

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Ask HN: Why are phone numbers considered a secure personal identifier?

I travel quite a bit and change phone numbers often. Most of the time when I am traveling I am in locations that have poor or nonexistent cellular service. This often causes problems with services (Paypal, banking apps, messangers, etc.) due to my inability use two factor auth and text-message based confirmation messages. It seems to me that phone numbers are a horrible identifier due to the way they can be transferred between users of a carrier. Services like Ting have made short term numbers easy to use, and I often get two-factor auth messages from previous users of a number. Is this purely a business case for data mining, or is there a legitimate security reason for relying on something as ephemeral as a phone number for critical identification mechanisms? I have debated using Twilio to create my own number pool of international numbers and a way to check my messages via a web portal instead of relying on messaging. Are there any current apps / services that already do this eff

Ask HN: Why are phone numbers considered a secure personal identifier?

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Germany Installed Cables over a Highway to Power Electric Trucks

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Baltimore city government computer network hit by ransomware attack

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Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works

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Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

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Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily

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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

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Show HN: Flipt – an open-source feature flag solution

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United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR

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On the Trail of the RoboCall King

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Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features

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Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar

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Inheritance versus Composition

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Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms

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A Nazi Critic and a Gestapo Spy

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“Users want control” is a shoulder shrug

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Show HN: 2D Graphics on Modern GPU

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The Frankfurt Kitchen

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Becoming Dr. Seuss

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We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

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Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password

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Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning

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Google Fights Back

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Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

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United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR

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Show HN: 2D Graphics on Modern GPU

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“Users want control” is a shoulder shrug

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In Australia, Coal Remains King

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Inheritance versus Composition

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Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms

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On the Trail of the RoboCall King

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Svgbob: Convert your ASCII diagram scribbles into happy little SVG

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Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach

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Becoming Dr. Seuss

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Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO

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Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning

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The Banana Boat Swing and Other Distinctive 'Fists' (1996)

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Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar

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Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily

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How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones

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Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features

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Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password

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Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]

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Google Fights Back

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We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

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Show HN: Flipt – an open-source feature flag solution

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The Frankfurt Kitchen

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Baltimore city government computer network hit by ransomware attack

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A Nazi Critic and a Gestapo Spy

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New best story on Hacker News: CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship

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New best story on Hacker News: HTTP headers for the responsible developer

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New best story on Hacker News: GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud

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