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Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

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Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (2016)

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Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments

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Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments

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Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (2016)

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React Simple Animate – UI Animation Made Simple

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Ring: Advanced cache interface for Python

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NATO Group Catfished Soldiers on Facebook to Discover Troop Movements

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Frances Arnold Turns Microbes into Living Factories

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Frances Arnold Turns Microbes into Living Factories

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Ring: The advanced cache interface for Python

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React Simple Animate – UI Animation Made Simple

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NATO Group Catfished Soldiers on Facebook to Discover Troop Movements

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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7753 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20028454 Points: 28 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EFgEjD via

W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

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What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?

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Lost Dog (2005)

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What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?

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Lost Dog (2005)

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Tests that sometimes fail

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Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming

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Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20028203 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2Qrwmnb via

Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming

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Tests that sometimes fail

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Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees

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Survival of the Richest

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Why AWS access and secret keys should not be in the codebase

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World Population Growth

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World Population Growth

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I can see your local web servers

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I can see your local web servers

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Robocrop: world's first raspberry-picking robot set to work

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/26/world-first-fruit-picking-robot-set-to-work-artificial-intelligence-farming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027295 Points: 9 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Qq1bsc via

‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Struggle for Autistic Women (2017)

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Show HN: Leg – Simple, elegant logging for Rust

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Show HN: Rust Library to check your Internet connectivity

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Show HN: Rust Library to check your Internet connectivity

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Show HN: Leg – Simple, elegant logging for Rust

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The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (2013)

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Quantum Information in Quantum Cognition

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Robocrop: world's first raspberry-picking robot set to work

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‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Struggle for Autistic Women (2017)

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The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (2013)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814/#L2sv2b8So0W2z40L.01 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027470 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/30WyZ5o via

The multi-armed bandit problem (2012)

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Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields

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Why you shouldn’t trust your food cravings

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Judge Alsup Slams Patent Troll

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Why you shouldn’t trust your food cravings

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Judge Alsup Slams Patent Troll

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Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?

I'm a project manager for a ~60 person software dev firm. One project I'm on is with a large American enterprise, and the product owner and his direct manager are absolute assholes. I've got 8 developers that I try to shield from accusatory questions and extremely aggressive and borderline abusive behaviour. In the beginning we we all agreed not to take anything personally and to let it just roll off the back. We agreed to tighten up our processes and try to avoid confrontations by being super proactive with all our work, but we're coming close to the launch date, and it's getting worse as more pressure mounts. Ordinarily, we would have dropped the client by now and refused to put up with the end-justifies-the-means tactics, but unfortunately our company could not survive without this and a handful of other projects we have with this client. My company is actively looking for new clients so we are not beholden to this one, and my manager is apologetic and tries t

ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]

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World's rivers 'awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics'

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/27/worlds-rivers-awash-with-dangerous-levels-of-antibiotics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027194 Points: 18 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2YM6h5h via

Pollen: the book is a program

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Basic Introduction of TensorFlow

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Why Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug

Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/26/why-every-vehicle-should-have-an-electric-motor-even-if-it-doesnt-have-a-plug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20026849 Points: 49 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2wmUZIo via

The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store

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Let Firefox help you block cryptominers from your computer

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Old Scotch Collie

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Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, World Health Organization says

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What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

Article URL: https://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20026297 Points: 216 # Comments: 77 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2YTLn3Z via

'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned

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A comparative study of leather hardening techniques (2018)

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Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote

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An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)

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Show HN: CodeSpeak, the beginnings of a web-based speech-to-code tool

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InNative: Run WebAssembly Outside the Sandbox at 95% Native Speed

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Show HN: Imgsquash – My image compression website project

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Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

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Antonio Salieri’s Revenge

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ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]

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The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store

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Pollen: the book is a program

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Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

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Onion Curve: A Space Filling Curve with Near-Optimal Clustering (2018)

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Let Firefox help you block cryptominers from your computer

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An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)

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There Is Too Much Stuff

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Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s

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InNative: Run WebAssembly Outside the Sandbox at 95% Native Speed

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Show HN: Imgsquash – My image compression website project

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What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

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Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, World Health Organization says

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Old Scotch Collie

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The Legacy of the Banqiao Dam Collapse (2013)

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A comparative study of leather hardening techniques (2018)

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Why Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug

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Antonio Salieri’s Revenge

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Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?

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Some bad news for DANE and DNSSEC

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World's rivers 'awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics'

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Basic Introduction of TensorFlow

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Show HN: CodeSpeak, the beginnings of a web-based speech-to-code tool

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'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned

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Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote

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Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX

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‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now

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Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

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The multi-armed bandit problem (2012)

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The Antonine Wall was the real final frontier of the Roman Empire

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