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US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/teaching-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-helps-them-relax-scientists-discover-/amp.html
Rethinking Encryption
https://www.lawfareblog.com/rethinking-encryption
Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a ’pretty’ table
https://dv.dbb1.dev
Stealing Ur Feelings
https://github.com/noahlevenson/stealing-ur-feelings
The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
https://praxis.fortelabs.co/the-body-keeps-the-score-summary/
Letting Birds scooters fly free
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html
Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2027/italo-calvino-the-art-of-fiction-no-130-italo-calvino
Messages via JSON
https://refl.me
Stripe to move to South San Francisco
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/2nd-most-valuable-U-S-startup-to-leave-SF-as-14558067.php
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html
What are unevaluated operands in C++?
https://humanreadablemag.com/issues/0/articles/what-are-unevaluated-operands-in-c/
It was Bill Joy’s password, not Ken Thompson’s, that had a control character
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019125.html
Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical aviation
https://theaviationist.com/2019/10/23/update-heres-why-we-saw-so-many-garmin-smart-watches-at-mcas-miramar/
The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs
https://blog.astropad.com/the-catch-22-of-apple-apis/
Man sues AT&T over ’SIM Swap’ hack allegedly involving employees
https://www.foxla.com/news/torrance-man-sues-att-over-1-8-million-sim-swap-hack-allegedly-involving-company-employees
Update on free software and telemetry
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-software-and-telemetry/
AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln319015/amd-rome-is-it-for-real-architecture-and-initial-hpc-performance?lang=en
Amazon Ready to Pour Billions into Policing Products on Its Site
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-ready-to-invest-billions-in-policing-products-on-its-site-11571787628?mod=rsswn
By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.html
Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-climate-change-1.5330144
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php
Chisel/FIRRTL Hardware Compiler Framework
https://www.chisel-lang.org/
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Powered Electric Aviation Powertrain
https://www.zeroavia.com/
Rotary Jails
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/10/rotary-jails.html
Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/developers-get-ready-for-new.html
Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kembz/comcast-lobbying-against-doh-dns-over-https-encryption-browsing-data
Show HN: Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps
https://github.com/adl1995/trip-planner
Computational Photography with Luminar 4
https://skylum.com/luminar
How to not rewrite it in Rust
http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/how-not-to-riir/
Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year’s Blizzcon
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P6VXEB-0ICNuBGWQInj_QaFaD2t62ACWPeYVG9ujpTQ
A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/a-visit-to-large-scale-systems-museum.html?m=1
Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring React/Node Engineering Managers in Toronto
https://jobs.lever.co/taplytics
Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/googles-play-store-is-giving-an-age-rating-finger-to-fleksy-a-gboard-rival/
Facebook may be gathering residential WiFi networks
https://wongmjane.com/blog/fb-wifi-auto-connect
Cloudflare’s service’s questionable practices
https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
Tesla Q3 Financial Results
https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/47313d21-3cac-4f69-9497-d161bce15da4
Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/11/lots-of-people-going-around-with-mild-hallucinations-all-the-time/
Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK
https://minimaxir.com/2019/10/sfo-jfk-flights/
Essential elements of good documentation
https://www.sohamkamani.com/blog/how-to-write-good-documentation/
How to Record Everything You Do in Terminal
https://www.ostechnix.com/record-everything-terminal/
Rising California Gasoline Prices Highlight Growing Divide in U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rising-california-gasoline-prices-highlight-growing-divide-in-u-s-11571832001?mod=rsswn
Swedish police may soon be allowed surveillance via trojans
https://www.thelocal.se/20191023/swedish-police-ready-for-increased-powers-of-surveillance
Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overflow-is-doing-me-ongoing-harm-its-time-to-fix-it
LibreOffice latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/
VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/vw-s-50-billion-moonshot-bet-on-an-electric-hatchback-the-id-3
Show HN: Tabber – Mac OS Windows/Apps Switcher. See Windows Contents Real-Time
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tabber-window-switcher/id1484581119
The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now Is New and Improved
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/23/the-wayback-machines-save-page-now-is-new-and-improved/
80x25
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25/
Sound and Hearing Protection: (Best Practices for Musicians)
https://artlapinsch.com/2019/08/18/sound-and-hearing-protection/
Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-accused-of-creating-spy-tool-to-squelch-worker-dissent/ar-AAJg5rR
Decorators in Go using embedded structs
https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/decorators-in-go-using-embedded-structs/
Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/business/boeing-earnings-737-max.html
Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
https://davidwalsh.name/pornhub-interview
“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/how-special-register-groups-invaded.html
Just 6% of US adults on Twitter account for 73% of political tweets
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/just-6-of-u-s-adults-on-twitter-account-for-73-of-political-tweets-and-they-disapprove-of-trump/
IBM casts doubt on Google’s claims of quantum supremacy
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/
We got 900 applications on our Developer Position
https://blog.bearer.sh/how-we-got-900-applications-on-our-developer-postion/
Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
https://www.balena.io/blog/using-web-bluetooth-to-communicate-with-bluetooth-devices/
Solving a linear optimization problem on incentive allocation
https://eng.lyft.com/how-to-solve-a-linear-optimization-problem-on-incentive-allocation-5a8fb5d04db1
Robert Pirsig and His Metaphysics of Quality
https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/Robert_Pirsig_and_His_Metaphysics_of_Quality
A Comprehensive Guide to Text Classification
https://monkeylearn.com/text-classification/
EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-dataprotection-microsoft/eu-data-watchdog-raises-concerns-over-microsoft-contracts-idUSKBN1X00WF
A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/13/the-usefulness-of-managers
Show HN: An Image Licensing Platform just for Instagram (example profile)
http://sharefair.co/archieleeming
Amazon rainforest ’close to irreversible tipping point’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/amazon-rainforest-close-to-irreversible-tipping-point
U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust-congress/u-s-senators-want-social-media-users-to-be-able-to-take-their-data-with-them-idUSKBN1X112C
The Carrd Story: 7 Steps to $30k MRR with Zero Marketing
https://saashacker.co/saas-growth
White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/
What S.M.A.R.T Stats Can Tell You About a Business
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/smart-stats-exposed-a-drive-stats-remix/
How Do You Like We Now
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do-you-like-we-now
Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw
Instacart Workers Screwed by the Algorithm Are the Latest Gig Economy Strikers
https://www.thedailybeast.com/instacart-workers-sick-of-being-screwed-by-the-algorithm-gear-up-for-strike
Amazon Sells Clothes from Factories Other Retailers Shun as Dangerous
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-sells-clothes-from-factories-other-retailers-shun-as-dangerous-11571845003?mod=rsswn
Army picks contenders for robotic combat vehicle competition
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/robo-tank-army-picks-contenders-for-robotic-combat-vehicle-competition/
Building Dynamic Knowledge Graphs from Text-Based Games
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09532
The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2018/10/17/our-lives/empty-seat-crowded-japanese-train-10-years-gaijin-seat-still-grates/#.XavCSEZKg2w
Ants are “immune” to traffic jams
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/study-ants-are-immune-to-traffic-jams/
Free Admin Panel for Laravel
https://github.com/orchidsoftware/platform
Tesla made a profit of $143M in Q3 2019 on record deliveries
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/tesla-made-a-profit-of-143-million-in-q3-2019-on-record-deliveries/
Show HN: Equal UI – Vue 2 TypeScript Components Library
https://quatrochan.github.io/Equal/
When everyone suddenly started using “impressed” as an opener
https://www.iteachrecruiters.com/blog/when-everyone-started-using-impressed-as-an-opener/
Show HN: Certera – A central validation server for Let’s Encrypt certificates
https://docs.certera.io
Show HN: Badgerton, the proactive reminder app for people with ADHD
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1476211821?pt=120159451&ct=ycnews&mt=8
Mapping at Aurora
https://medium.com/aurora-blog/the-atlas-our-hd-mapping-system-262e7b0fadd1
Show HN: Maker Bites – an HN-like news aggregator for the maker community
https://bites.postmake.io/
When do clocks change around the world? And why?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/oct/21/spring-forward-fall-back-who-changes-the-clocks-when-and-why
Giotto framework: using topology to build a new language between AI and users
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/with-giotto-artificial-intelligence-gets-a-third-d/
Easy Guide to Monads, Applicatives, & Functors
https://medium.com/@lettier/your-easy-guide-to-monads-applicatives-functors-862048d61610
Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-polynote-an-ide-inspired-polyglot-notebook-7f929d3f447
Naomi Wolf: US publisher cancels book release after accuracy concerns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50153743
Sorry–organic farming is worse for climate change
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614605/sorryorganic-farming-is-actually-worse-for-climate-change/
WeWork’s Implosion Shows How SoftBank Is Breaking the World
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ae7y/weworks-implosion-shows-how-softbank-is-breaking-the-world
Tesla’s Futuristic Door Handles Blamed for Death in Fiery Wreck
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-futuristic-door-handles-blamed-003450557.html
Prenatal THC exposure yields hyperdopaminergic phenotype rescued by pregnenolone
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0512-2
On “Quantum Supremacy”
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/
Cloudflare Considered Harmful
https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
Mongoke – Instant GraphQL APIs on MongoDb
https://github.com/remorses/mongoke
The Opioid Settlement Will Fund Desperate Counties–But Could Come at Steep Cost
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/the-opioid-settlement-will-fund-desperate-counties-but-could-come-at-a-steep-cost/
Advice to Junior Developers
https://dev.to/theburningmonk/my-advice-to-junior-developers-4oc2
A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gift for His Daughter
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/customs-border-searches-civil-liberties/
Spotify halved build times with just one script
https://labs.spotify.com/2019/10/23/when-in-rome-how-spotify-halved-build-times-with-just-one-script/
Hong Kong officially withdraws extradition bill
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/23/just-hong-kong-officially-withdraws-controversial-extradition-bill-legislature
The Black Legend Written in Silver
https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/black-legend-written-silver
Online, no one knows you’re poor
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/oct/08/online-poor-part-time-job
Lime’s Loss to Top $300M in 2019
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/limes-loss-to-top-300-million-in-2019
The Next-Generation Amiga That Never Materialized Just Went Up for Pre-Order
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2019/10/22/the-next-generation-amiga-that-never-materialized-just-went-up-for-pre-order/
Show HN: A Deploy Anywhere, Golang GraphQL Boilerplate
https://github.com/jacob-ebey/go-graphql-boilerplate
Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
https://medium.com/@docjamesw/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36
Gitlab 12.4 Released with Improved Merge Request Dependencies and Audit API
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/22/gitlab-12-4-released/
Fexl: The one programming language that’s close to being flawless
https://fexl.com/flawless
Stack Exchange deletes most downvoted post on Meta (gender pronoun FAQ)
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes
‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents use tracking apps to watch their kids at college
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/dont-leave-campus-parents-are-now-using-tracking-apps-watch-their-kids-college/
Who tips best on Uber? Economists analyzed 40M trips
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/22/young-women-get-most-tips-regular-riders-tip-less-lessons-million-uber-trips/
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Show HN: I built a platform to allow devs to make things without raising finance
https://crowdsourcer.io/lp/revolution-for-startups/view
NordVPN Breached
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/nordvpn_breache.html
Asking my co-workers out to lunch
https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/asking-my-co-workers-out-to-lunch/
Aurora Cannabis Is Dumping Its Pot, Which May Be a Sign It’s All Over
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/10/21/aurora-cannabis-is-dumping-its-pot-which-may-be-a-sign-its-all-over/
Tesla “Sentry Mode” catches man who keyed car
https://twitter.com/IIJustSupremeII/status/1186777295450591233
Drivers are killing pedestrians at highest rate in almost 30 years
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20927512/traffic-death-crash-statistics-nhtsa-us-2018
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
BYU researchers extend WiFi range by 200 feet with a software upgrade
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/22/wifi-onpc-protocol/
’Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-artificial-leaf-successfully-gas.html
A simple three-part outline of Ramanujan summation
https://twitter.com/susam/status/1186847340356919297
Bernie Sanders Pledges to End Practice of Prosecuting Whistleblowers
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/bernie-sanders-espionage-act-whistleblowers/
The Deep State Is Neither Resistance or Cabal; They Are Public Servants
http://archive.is/sFGtl
Google Chrome 78 is out: Forced dark mode, DoH trials, no more XSS Auditor
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-78-is-out-forced-dark-mode-doh-trials-no-more-xss-auditor/
AI learned to use tools after nearly 500M games of hide and seek
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614325/open-ai-algorithms-learned-tool-use-and-cooperation-after-hide-and-seek-games/
$2B Up for Grabs for Female Founders
https://www.inc.com/essential-guide-venture-capital-women-founders.html
Chaos erupts as Republicans barge into Trump impeachment inquiry hearing
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/23/chaos-erupts-as-republicans-barge-into-trump-impeachment-inquiry-hearing
Show HN: 6nomads – matching tool for remote devs and tech companies
https://6nomads.com
Elon Musk Send First Tweet via Starlink
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-tweet-spacex-starlink-satellites.html
Every Fucking Website – Insert Keywords Here, Carl
http://everyfuckingwebsite.com/
“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/how-special-register-groups-invaded.html?m=1
Google clamps down on free storage
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay
Gitlab – Important Updates to Our Terms of Service and Telemetry Services
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/2113
Lenin Was a Mushroom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom
California’s Assembly Votes to Allow Communists to Hold State Jobs
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/09/527586682/california-assembly-votes-to-allow-communists-to-hold-state-jobs
On “Quantum Supremacy”
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/technology/quantum-computing-google.html
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US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/teaching-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-helps-them-relax-scientists-discover-/amp.html
Rethinking Encryption
https://www.lawfareblog.com/rethinking-encryption
Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a ’pretty’ table
https://dv.dbb1.dev
Stealing Ur Feelings
https://github.com/noahlevenson/stealing-ur-feelings
The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
https://praxis.fortelabs.co/the-body-keeps-the-score-summary/
Letting Birds scooters fly free
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html
Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2027/italo-calvino-the-art-of-fiction-no-130-italo-calvino
Messages via JSON
https://refl.me
Stripe to move to South San Francisco
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/2nd-most-valuable-U-S-startup-to-leave-SF-as-14558067.php
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html
What are unevaluated operands in C++?
https://humanreadablemag.com/issues/0/articles/what-are-unevaluated-operands-in-c/
It was Bill Joy’s password, not Ken Thompson’s, that had a control character
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019125.html
Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical aviation
https://theaviationist.com/2019/10/23/update-heres-why-we-saw-so-many-garmin-smart-watches-at-mcas-miramar/
The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs
https://blog.astropad.com/the-catch-22-of-apple-apis/
Man sues AT&T over ’SIM Swap’ hack allegedly involving employees
https://www.foxla.com/news/torrance-man-sues-att-over-1-8-million-sim-swap-hack-allegedly-involving-company-employees
Update on free software and telemetry
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-software-and-telemetry/
AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln319015/amd-rome-is-it-for-real-architecture-and-initial-hpc-performance?lang=en
Amazon Ready to Pour Billions into Policing Products on Its Site
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-ready-to-invest-billions-in-policing-products-on-its-site-11571787628?mod=rsswn
By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.html
Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-climate-change-1.5330144
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php
Chisel/FIRRTL Hardware Compiler Framework
https://www.chisel-lang.org/
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Powered Electric Aviation Powertrain
https://www.zeroavia.com/
Rotary Jails
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/10/rotary-jails.html
Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/developers-get-ready-for-new.html
Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kembz/comcast-lobbying-against-doh-dns-over-https-encryption-browsing-data
Show HN: Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps
https://github.com/adl1995/trip-planner
Computational Photography with Luminar 4
https://skylum.com/luminar
How to not rewrite it in Rust
http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/how-not-to-riir/
Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year’s Blizzcon
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P6VXEB-0ICNuBGWQInj_QaFaD2t62ACWPeYVG9ujpTQ
A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/a-visit-to-large-scale-systems-museum.html?m=1
Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring React/Node Engineering Managers in Toronto
https://jobs.lever.co/taplytics
Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/googles-play-store-is-giving-an-age-rating-finger-to-fleksy-a-gboard-rival/
Facebook may be gathering residential WiFi networks
https://wongmjane.com/blog/fb-wifi-auto-connect
Cloudflare’s service’s questionable practices
https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
Tesla Q3 Financial Results
https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/47313d21-3cac-4f69-9497-d161bce15da4
Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
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Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK
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Essential elements of good documentation
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How to Record Everything You Do in Terminal
https://www.ostechnix.com/record-everything-terminal/
Rising California Gasoline Prices Highlight Growing Divide in U.S.
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Swedish police may soon be allowed surveillance via trojans
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Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm
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LibreOffice latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/
VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
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Show HN: Tabber – Mac OS Windows/Apps Switcher. See Windows Contents Real-Time
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The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now Is New and Improved
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/23/the-wayback-machines-save-page-now-is-new-and-improved/
80x25
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25/
Sound and Hearing Protection: (Best Practices for Musicians)
https://artlapinsch.com/2019/08/18/sound-and-hearing-protection/
Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-accused-of-creating-spy-tool-to-squelch-worker-dissent/ar-AAJg5rR
Decorators in Go using embedded structs
https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/decorators-in-go-using-embedded-structs/
Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/business/boeing-earnings-737-max.html
Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
https://davidwalsh.name/pornhub-interview
“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/how-special-register-groups-invaded.html
Just 6% of US adults on Twitter account for 73% of political tweets
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IBM casts doubt on Google’s claims of quantum supremacy
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/
We got 900 applications on our Developer Position
https://blog.bearer.sh/how-we-got-900-applications-on-our-developer-postion/
Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
https://www.balena.io/blog/using-web-bluetooth-to-communicate-with-bluetooth-devices/
Solving a linear optimization problem on incentive allocation
https://eng.lyft.com/how-to-solve-a-linear-optimization-problem-on-incentive-allocation-5a8fb5d04db1
Robert Pirsig and His Metaphysics of Quality
https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/Robert_Pirsig_and_His_Metaphysics_of_Quality
A Comprehensive Guide to Text Classification
https://monkeylearn.com/text-classification/
EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts
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A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/13/the-usefulness-of-managers
Show HN: An Image Licensing Platform just for Instagram (example profile)
http://sharefair.co/archieleeming
Amazon rainforest ’close to irreversible tipping point’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/amazon-rainforest-close-to-irreversible-tipping-point
U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust-congress/u-s-senators-want-social-media-users-to-be-able-to-take-their-data-with-them-idUSKBN1X112C
The Carrd Story: 7 Steps to $30k MRR with Zero Marketing
https://saashacker.co/saas-growth
White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/
What S.M.A.R.T Stats Can Tell You About a Business
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/smart-stats-exposed-a-drive-stats-remix/
How Do You Like We Now
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do-you-like-we-now
Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw
Instacart Workers Screwed by the Algorithm Are the Latest Gig Economy Strikers
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Amazon Sells Clothes from Factories Other Retailers Shun as Dangerous
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-sells-clothes-from-factories-other-retailers-shun-as-dangerous-11571845003?mod=rsswn
Army picks contenders for robotic combat vehicle competition
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/robo-tank-army-picks-contenders-for-robotic-combat-vehicle-competition/
Building Dynamic Knowledge Graphs from Text-Based Games
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09532
The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2018/10/17/our-lives/empty-seat-crowded-japanese-train-10-years-gaijin-seat-still-grates/#.XavCSEZKg2w
Ants are “immune” to traffic jams
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Free Admin Panel for Laravel
https://github.com/orchidsoftware/platform
Tesla made a profit of $143M in Q3 2019 on record deliveries
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Show HN: Equal UI – Vue 2 TypeScript Components Library
https://quatrochan.github.io/Equal/
When everyone suddenly started using “impressed” as an opener
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Show HN: Certera – A central validation server for Let’s Encrypt certificates
https://docs.certera.io
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Mapping at Aurora
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Show HN: Maker Bites – an HN-like news aggregator for the maker community
https://bites.postmake.io/
When do clocks change around the world? And why?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/oct/21/spring-forward-fall-back-who-changes-the-clocks-when-and-why
Giotto framework: using topology to build a new language between AI and users
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/with-giotto-artificial-intelligence-gets-a-third-d/
Easy Guide to Monads, Applicatives, & Functors
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Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
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Naomi Wolf: US publisher cancels book release after accuracy concerns
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Sorry–organic farming is worse for climate change
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WeWork’s Implosion Shows How SoftBank Is Breaking the World
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Tesla’s Futuristic Door Handles Blamed for Death in Fiery Wreck
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-futuristic-door-handles-blamed-003450557.html
Prenatal THC exposure yields hyperdopaminergic phenotype rescued by pregnenolone
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0512-2
On “Quantum Supremacy”
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/
Cloudflare Considered Harmful
https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
Mongoke – Instant GraphQL APIs on MongoDb
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The Opioid Settlement Will Fund Desperate Counties–But Could Come at Steep Cost
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Advice to Junior Developers
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A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gift for His Daughter
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Spotify halved build times with just one script
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Hong Kong officially withdraws extradition bill
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The Black Legend Written in Silver
https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/black-legend-written-silver
Online, no one knows you’re poor
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Lime’s Loss to Top $300M in 2019
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The Next-Generation Amiga That Never Materialized Just Went Up for Pre-Order
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Show HN: A Deploy Anywhere, Golang GraphQL Boilerplate
https://github.com/jacob-ebey/go-graphql-boilerplate
Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
https://medium.com/@docjamesw/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36
Gitlab 12.4 Released with Improved Merge Request Dependencies and Audit API
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/22/gitlab-12-4-released/
Fexl: The one programming language that’s close to being flawless
https://fexl.com/flawless
Stack Exchange deletes most downvoted post on Meta (gender pronoun FAQ)
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes
‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents use tracking apps to watch their kids at college
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/dont-leave-campus-parents-are-now-using-tracking-apps-watch-their-kids-college/
Who tips best on Uber? Economists analyzed 40M trips
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/22/young-women-get-most-tips-regular-riders-tip-less-lessons-million-uber-trips/
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Show HN: I built a platform to allow devs to make things without raising finance
https://crowdsourcer.io/lp/revolution-for-startups/view
NordVPN Breached
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/nordvpn_breache.html
Asking my co-workers out to lunch
https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/asking-my-co-workers-out-to-lunch/
Aurora Cannabis Is Dumping Its Pot, Which May Be a Sign It’s All Over
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/10/21/aurora-cannabis-is-dumping-its-pot-which-may-be-a-sign-its-all-over/
Tesla “Sentry Mode” catches man who keyed car
https://twitter.com/IIJustSupremeII/status/1186777295450591233
Drivers are killing pedestrians at highest rate in almost 30 years
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20927512/traffic-death-crash-statistics-nhtsa-us-2018
The Phone Company Secretly Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
BYU researchers extend WiFi range by 200 feet with a software upgrade
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/22/wifi-onpc-protocol/
’Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-artificial-leaf-successfully-gas.html
A simple three-part outline of Ramanujan summation
https://twitter.com/susam/status/1186847340356919297
Bernie Sanders Pledges to End Practice of Prosecuting Whistleblowers
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/bernie-sanders-espionage-act-whistleblowers/
The Deep State Is Neither Resistance or Cabal; They Are Public Servants
http://archive.is/sFGtl
Google Chrome 78 is out: Forced dark mode, DoH trials, no more XSS Auditor
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-78-is-out-forced-dark-mode-doh-trials-no-more-xss-auditor/
AI learned to use tools after nearly 500M games of hide and seek
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614325/open-ai-algorithms-learned-tool-use-and-cooperation-after-hide-and-seek-games/
$2B Up for Grabs for Female Founders
https://www.inc.com/essential-guide-venture-capital-women-founders.html
Chaos erupts as Republicans barge into Trump impeachment inquiry hearing
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/23/chaos-erupts-as-republicans-barge-into-trump-impeachment-inquiry-hearing
Show HN: 6nomads – matching tool for remote devs and tech companies
https://6nomads.com
Elon Musk Send First Tweet via Starlink
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-tweet-spacex-starlink-satellites.html
Every Fucking Website – Insert Keywords Here, Carl
http://everyfuckingwebsite.com/
“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
http://www.righto.com/2019/10/how-special-register-groups-invaded.html?m=1
Google clamps down on free storage
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay
Gitlab – Important Updates to Our Terms of Service and Telemetry Services
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/2113
Lenin Was a Mushroom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom
California’s Assembly Votes to Allow Communists to Hold State Jobs
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/09/527586682/california-assembly-votes-to-allow-communists-to-hold-state-jobs
On “Quantum Supremacy”
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/technology/quantum-computing-google.html
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