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Tiptoeing Through the Tundra

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New best story on Hacker News: In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc

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New best story on Hacker News: Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder

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Bob Widlar – The Life of an Engineering Legend

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Bob Widlar – The Life of an Engineering Legend

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What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today

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Twitter Accounts Hijacked for Spam

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What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)

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What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today

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Twitter Accounts Hijacked for Spam

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What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)

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Recursive Make Considered Harmful (1997) [pdf]

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Recursive Make Considered Harmful (1997) [pdf]

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‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns

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Nudging out support for a carbon tax

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‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns

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Logical Fallacies in Software Engineering

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Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine on the Planet

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Greta Thunberg

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Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru

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What Can Prewar Germany Teach Us About Social-Media Regulation?

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Nudging out support for a carbon tax

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Greta Thunberg

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What Can Prewar Germany Teach Us About Social-Media Regulation?

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Leaked OPCW report suggests Syria gas attack was 'staged'

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Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine on the Planet

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‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns

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Logical Fallacies in Software Engineering

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Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru

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Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America

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The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock (1981)

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Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop

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Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics

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Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics

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Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America

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The United Kingdom Has Gone Mad

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The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock (1981)

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Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop

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Telnet BBS Guide

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Propofol reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation

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Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)

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Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers

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Telnet BBS Guide

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Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers

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Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)

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Propofol reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation

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A plot to kill Kim Il Sung ended in mutiny and murder (2018)

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Has your company ever needed a line of credit?

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A plot to kill Kim Il Sung ended in mutiny and murder (2018)

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Has your company ever needed a line of credit?

Hi! I’ve been researching this question for a while and after going through a bunch of research reports I’ve decided to ask some entrepreneurs directly. So, here it goes. As an emerging business, have you ever needed a line of credit to meet your obligations or to fund growth? How easily have you been able to secure a line of credit, if you did seek it? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013512 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WptVXG via

Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager

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Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager

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When a Fatal Grizzly Mauling Goes Viral

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Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

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Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels

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The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation

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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Hooks-Based WebGL Library for React

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Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

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KidSwitch: Identifying Kids in Apps and Sites

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SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine

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Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife

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Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science

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100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

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How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

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The Copenhagen Catalog: Principles for a new direction in tech

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The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life

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In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc

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A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017)

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GDPR After One Year

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Byte Magazine – LISP (1979)

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Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

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Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels

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Byte Magazine – LISP (1979)

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Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

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In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc

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A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017)

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The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation

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An Invisible City Beneath Paris

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Hooks-Based WebGL Library for React

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Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees

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Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science

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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft

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Alloy is an open source language and analyzer for software modeling

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KidSwitch: Identifying Kids in Apps and Sites

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SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine

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The Copenhagen Catalog: Principles for a new direction in tech

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How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

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100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

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The Making of a Physicist: A Talk with Murray Gell-Mann (2003)

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The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life

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First You Make the Maps

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GDPR After One Year

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These may be the first images of dogs, and they’re wearing leashes (2017)

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Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife

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Mangle: Orchestrating Chaos Engineering

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When a Fatal Grizzly Mauling Goes Viral

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New best story on Hacker News: Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system

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