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Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage
FPGA Design for Software Engineers
https://www.walknsqualk.com/post/014-tiny-fpga-bx/
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/
Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html
Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/
Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/algolia-finds-110m-from-accel-and-salesforce-for-its-search-as-a-service-used-by-slack-twitch-and-8k-others/
Gitlab: don’t discuss politics at work
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/
Niantic’s apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go
https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-world-now-theyre-1838974714
How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
https://www.space.com/how-can-a-star-be-older-than-the-universe.html
Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-mystery-of-the-trump-chaos-trades
Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/hasidic-jews-amazon.html
Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/spains-happy-little-carless-city/
Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard
https://www.fastcompany.com/90411397/exclusive-patagonia-founder-yvon-chouinard-talks-about-the-sustainability-myth-the-problem-with-amazon-and-why-its-not-too-late-to-save-the-planet
What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191011-what-happens-when-a-city-bans-car-from-its-streets
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-October/004596.html
People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/australia/tasmanian-tiger-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Timing Technology
https://www.gwern.net/Timing
Designing Accessible Color Systems
https://stripe.com/au/blog/accessible-color-systems
Soli
https://atap.google.com/soli/
HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/hamr-3d-hand-shape-and-pose-estimation-from-a-single-rgb-image-225cba26ce2
Computers Don’t Argue (1965)
https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they do
https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_zsh_config
Paris zoo unveils a slime mould
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-zoo-blob/paris-zoo-unveils-the-blob-an-organism-with-no-brain-but-720-sexes-idUSKBN1WV2AD
The Big Die-Up (2017)
https://www.americancowboy.com/lifestyle/big-dieup-30155
Streak (YC S11), CRM for Gmail, Is Hiring in Vancouver
https://www.streak.com/offices/vancouver
After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/184-years-cherokees-seek-house-delegate-seat-promised-treaty
Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
https://mosaicscience.com/story/urban-living-city-mental-health-glasgow-cities-happiness-regeneration/
Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb
https://simblob.blogspot.com/2019/10/verb-noun-vs-noun-verb.html
Docker containers in space
https://www.balena.io/blog/beyond-the-cloud-docker-containers-in-space/
Yahoo Groups to remove all content December 14
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html
I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/rants/icccm.txt
Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191015-lifting-the-lid-on-japans-amazing-bento-boxes
IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations
https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann19035/
Show HN: Touchable augmented reality on your phone, 3 years in the making
https://portalble.cs.brown.edu
Stones and Apples
https://blog.mathspace.co/stones-and-apples/
Training Neural Nets: A Hacker’s Perspective
https://blog.floydhub.com/training-neural-nets-a-hackers-perspective/
US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
https://www.coindesk.com/us-law-enforcement-traces-bitcoin-transactions-to-nab-largest-child-porn-site
Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet
No One Knows Why Humans Can Walk
https://lithub.com/no-one-really-knows-why-humans-can-walk/
Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra
https://pipedream.com
Len Deighton’s Bomber, the first book ever written on a word processor (2013)
https://slate.com/culture/2013/03/len-deightons-bomber-the-first-book-ever-written-on-a-word-processor.html
The type of char + char
https://blog.knatten.org/2019/05/24/no-one-knows-the-type-of-char-char/
Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/16/announcing-dapr-open-source-project-build-microservice-applications/
Microsoft gives Satya Nadella a 66% raise, citing ’strategic leadership’
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-gives-ceo-satya-nadella-a-raise-for-2019-fiscal-year.html
Let’s Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)
http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/
More on Ancient Scripts and the History of Writing
https://kottke.org/19/02/more-on-ancient-scripts-and-the-history-of-writing
Tesla’s Risky Gamble and the Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries
https://contrarianedge.com/teslas-risky-gamble-the-future-of-lithium-ion-batteries/
How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-neutrinos-tiny-mass-could-help-solve-big-mysteries-20191015/
Show HN: A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs
https://github.com/ExpectationMax/simple_gpu_scheduler
Analogue Pocket
https://www.analogue.co/pocket/
The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/the-a2-motorway-no-longer-divides-maastricht/
Show HN: Strangers – A non-fiction book club focused on technology and society
https://strangers.club/
The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro-and-max-review
Google and Ambient Computing
https://stratechery.com/2019/google-and-ambient-computing/
Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/766057380/how-magic-mushrooms-can-help-smokers-kick-the-habit
Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes
https://itnext.io/kubernetes-networking-behind-the-scenes-39a1ab1792bb?source=friends_link&sk=b5b666c68375f7c60f76faa8571baa21
Kubernetes: K8s vs. Rancher K3s
https://www.civo.com/blog/k8s-vs-k3s
The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace
https://doist.com/blog/asynchronous-communication/
Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I’ve ever seen
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-10-15/kernelrecipes-kernel-ftrace-internals.html
Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
https://fair.org/home/still-manufacturing-consent-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/
Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/tech/
The Structure of DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02554-z
Make More Land
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKErZy7TFhjxtyBuG/make-more-land
Fastest ants in world found in northern Sahara
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/16/fastest-ants-in-world-northern-sahara
A History of Pizza
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/historians-cookbook/history-pizza
Elon Musk reportedly testified that he’s low on cash, financially illiquid
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-testifies-low-on-cash-financially-illiquid-report-2019-10
Amazon RDS on VMware Now Available
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-relational-database-service-rds-on-vmware/
Maintainability Through Colocation
https://kentcdodds.com/blog/colocation
My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming
https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/my-2019-mathematics-a-to-z-linear-programming/
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1503799
IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust
https://kottke.org/19/10/how-ibms-technology-powered-the-holocaust
Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/15/mispredicted-branches-can-multiply-your-running-times/
The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pioneering-maps-alexander-von-humboldt-180973342/
Show HN: Wikipedia articles in AR with React Native
https://takota.net/wikiscope/?ref=hn
Fomu – An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu
Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/10/15/form-controls-microsoft-edge-chromium/
Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x9j3k/depressed-people-see-the-world-more-realistically
Mother’s attention may shape baby’s hormone system and temperament
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220192-mothers-attention-may-shape-babys-hormone-system-and-temperament/
“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it”
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/16/ransomware/
Show HN: Django REST – Typed Views
https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-typed-views
Show HN: Run Scripts in the “Today View” of macOS Notification Center
https://github.com/megabitsenmzq/Today-Scripts
Marc Benioff says it’s time to break up Facebook
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/tech/salesforce-marc-benioff-break-up-facebook-boss-files/index.html
Vatican launches $110 ’click to pray’ wearable rosary
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/16/vatican-click-to-pray-wearable-rosary/
Infrastructure as Code, Not Infrastructure as Files
https://hackernoon.com/react-for-infrastructure-n84n2dw7
Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2019/10/MurderByRifleVsDeathByMeteor.html
Elon Musk testifies he’s financially illiquid, court filing says
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-16/elon-musk-testifies-defamation-case-cave-diver
U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-cyber-exclusive-idUSKBN1WV0EK
The More Active Your Brain, the Shorter Your Lifespan May Be
https://time.com/5700721/neural-activity-longevity-study/
Show HN: Jet, a CLI to Transform Between JSON, EDN and Transit Inspired by Jq
https://github.com/borkdude/jet
It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have
https://rob.conery.io/2015/02/20/its-time-to-get-over-that-stored-procedure-aversion-you-have/
The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917162/fcc-tmobile-sprint-merger-justice-department-ajit-pai-geoffrey-starks-jessica-rosenworel
Zuck says cloud computing is too expensive
https://www.techradar.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-says-cloud-computing-is-too-expensive
Natron: Cross-Platform Open Source After Effects Alternative
https://natrongithub.github.io/
Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-syria-us-nuclear-weapons-bombs-trump-war-isis-kurds-a9158416.html
UK mobile number portability requests are handled via Yahoo Groups
https://twitter.com/erincandescent/status/1184587323599736837
SoftBank Plans $5B Rescue Financing for WeWork
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/softbank-said-to-plan-5-billion-rescue-financing-for-wework
“Ads Inc.” used “rental” Facebook accounts to scam Boomers out of millions
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-subscription-trap-free-trial-scam-ads-inc
U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-carried-out-secret-cyber-strike-on-iran-in-wake-of-saudi-oil-attack-officials-say-idUSKBN1WV0EK
The Path Beyond Market Fundamentalism
https://bostonreview.net/forum/american-corporation-crisis%E2%80%94lets-rethink-it/lenore-palladino-path-beyond-market-fundamentalism
Just Published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/10/just-published-adventures-of-a-computational-explorer/
Seized North Korean cargo ship sold to compensate parents of Otto Warmbier
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/10/09/seized-north-korean-cargo-ship-sold-to-compensate-parents-of-otto-warmbier-others/
Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/americans-now-need-at-least-500-000-a-year-to-enter-the-top-1
Children told lies by parents lie more as adults
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002102759.htm
AWT GUI Facade (2): Draw – Design Pattern and Video Games
https://learngameprog.com/awt-gui-facade-2-draw/
Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/
Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 – 2019 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og847HVwRSI
How to Build a Stripe Billing Onboarding Flow Using Node.js and React
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-stripe-billing-onboarding-flow-for-your-saas-using-nodejs-and-react/
A Company You Have Never Heard Of
https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-company-you-have-never-heard-of/
Load balancing Node application servers using Nginx
https://codeforgeek.com/load-balancing-nodejs-servers-nginx/
What did Monica do to violate the CoC?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/335373/what-did-monica-do-to-violate-the-coc
Apple’s Destructive macOS Catalina Update Betrays Trust in Your Broken MBP
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/10/15/apple-macos-catalina-mac-imac-macbook-pro-32bit-support-microsoft-office-broken-update/
Be Part of Something Bigger
https://simplybetter.me/2019/07/31/be-a-part-of-something-bigger/
Headliner – Easy training and deployment of seq2seq models
https://github.com/as-ideas/headliner
Court rules officer who ran and hid, while inmate raped a nurse, cannot be sued
https://reason.com/2019/10/16/prison-guard-who-hid-while-inmate-raped-a-nurse-cannot-be-sued-federal-court-rules/
Why Are U.S. Nuclear Bombs Still in Turkey?
https://newrepublic.com/article/155381/us-nuclear-bombs-still-turkey
Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM)
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/16/announcing-open-application-model/
UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/16/uk-drops-plans-for-online-pornography-age-verification-system
Show HN: PostgREST as a Service
https://subzero.cloud/postgrest-plus.html
Texas Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $50M from Peter Thiel
https://fortune.com/2019/10/15/what-is-bitcoin-mining-layer1-peter-thiel-crypto-investment/
Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy
https://gizmodo.com/huge-child-porn-ring-busted-as-authorities-cite-ability-1839098730
Your landlord turns your apartment into a smart home. Now what?
https://www.cnet.com/news/your-landlord-turns-your-apartment-into-a-smart-home-now-what/
Hacking 20 high-profile dev accounts could compromise half of the NPM ecosystem
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacking-20-high-profile-dev-accounts-could-compromise-half-of-the-npm-ecosystem/
T-Mobile and Sprint get FCC approval to merge in 3-2 party-line vote
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/t-mobile-and-sprint-get-fcc-approval-to-merge-in-3-2-party-line-vote/
Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/15/facebook-federal-reserve-digital-currency-047477
Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack
http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1
Show HN: C# or Not – Deep Learning
https://lostmsu.github.io/Not-CSharp/
Brian Krebs-themed carding site “BriansClub” hacked
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/briansclub-hack-rescues-26m-stolen-cards/
PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters
https://eu.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/10/15/msu-michigan-state-graduate-student-rejection-letters-phd-defense-caitlin-kirby/3977920002/
Maduro unveils plan to fund Venezuela’s economy in petro cryptocurrency
https://decrypt.co/10406/maduro-unveils-aggressive-plan-to-fund-venezuelas-economy-in-petro-cryptocurrency
Gamifying the bug-tracking process: How an Atlassian team does it
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/how-to-gamify-bug-tracking
SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614566/spacex-just-filed-a-request-to-run-30-000-more-starlink-satellites-in-orbit/
SpaceX says 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it might launch another 30k
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/spacex-might-launch-another-30000-broadband-satellites-for-42000-total/
A house is a terrible investment (2013)
https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrible-investment/
The Introverted Leader
https://medium.com/startup-grind/the-introverted-leader-b1d84c2bc974
Blizzard Bans Three College ‘Hearthstone’ Protesters for Six Months
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3akzz/three-college-hearthstone-protesters-banned-for-six-months
NASA unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50070615
Where you place your food in the fridge does matter
https://www.electrafixbc.ca/articles/fridge-storage.html
Show HN: I created a non-money-oriented crowdsourcing alternative for developers
https://crowdsourcer.io
Why do European developers choose to work remotely for Israeli companies?
https://6nomads.com/2monitorsandanoldt-shirt
The lines of code that changed everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
Different OSes produced different results for Chemists using Python
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/15/bug_python_scripts/
Mystery novelist Charles Finch on how to write a mystery
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/charles-finch-on-how-he-writes-charles-lenox-mysteries.html
.NET Core 3.1 Preview 1
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-3-1-preview-1/
Trump appears to confirm U.S. nukes are in Turkey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/16/trump-appears-confirm-us-nukes-are-turkey-which-would-break-with-longstanding-protocol/
NASA Introduces New Spacesuits for the Moon and Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj6LYpZosRU
Why do we write dedications in books?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/why-do-we-write-dedications-in-books/
The Myth of 10,000 hours
https://medium.com/@senthil/the-myth-of-10-000-hours-hard-work-success-e309128c3d63
The lines of code that changed everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
U.S., U.K. sign deal to access data from tech companies like Facebook and Google
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/u-s-u-k-sign-deal-access-data-tech-companies-n1062361
200 Business Applications for Your Relationship Stack
http://blog.idonethis.com/business-applications/
Google employees are debating company’s decision to ban HK Protest game
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/15/20915729/google-hong-kong-video-game-revolution-of-our-times
Spark History Server and monitoring jobs performance
https://luminousmen.com/post/spark-history-server-and-monitoring-jobs-performance
Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/man-agrees-to-pay-25000-for-abusing-youtubes-takedown-system/
Show HN: Repo for learning how to fix tech debt
https://github.com/jamesefhawkins/tech-debt-reading-list
China’s Z-20 Helicopter Looks Awfully Familiar
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/china-s-z-20-helicopter-looks-awfully-familiar-1839076626
The Myth That Capitalism Saved the World
https://eand.co/the-myth-that-capitalism-saved-the-world-f655e2b529b1
We Talked to Andrew Yang. Here’s How He’d Fix the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/andrew-yang-privacy-internet.html
China’s helicopter prototype looks like a UFO
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/16/asia/china-new-helicopter-ufo-intl-scli-hnk/index.html
Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook
The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/say-goodbye-millennial-urban-lifestyle/599839/
Hong Kong Protest Leader Assaulted by Masked Hammer Wielding Assailants
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dio9kx/breaking_news_jimmy_sham_convenor_of_civil_rights/
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Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage
FPGA Design for Software Engineers
https://www.walknsqualk.com/post/014-tiny-fpga-bx/
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/
Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html
Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/
Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/algolia-finds-110m-from-accel-and-salesforce-for-its-search-as-a-service-used-by-slack-twitch-and-8k-others/
Gitlab: don’t discuss politics at work
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/
Niantic’s apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go
https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-world-now-theyre-1838974714
How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
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Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard
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Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
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People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
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Computers Don’t Argue (1965)
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Docker containers in space
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Yahoo Groups to remove all content December 14
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IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations
https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann19035/
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Training Neural Nets: A Hacker’s Perspective
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US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
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Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x9j3k/depressed-people-see-the-world-more-realistically
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Vatican launches $110 ’click to pray’ wearable rosary
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Infrastructure as Code, Not Infrastructure as Files
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Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor
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Elon Musk testifies he’s financially illiquid, court filing says
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U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials
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The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
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Zuck says cloud computing is too expensive
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Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base
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UK mobile number portability requests are handled via Yahoo Groups
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SoftBank Plans $5B Rescue Financing for WeWork
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“Ads Inc.” used “rental” Facebook accounts to scam Boomers out of millions
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U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-carried-out-secret-cyber-strike-on-iran-in-wake-of-saudi-oil-attack-officials-say-idUSKBN1WV0EK
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Seized North Korean cargo ship sold to compensate parents of Otto Warmbier
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Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
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Court rules officer who ran and hid, while inmate raped a nurse, cannot be sued
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Why Are U.S. Nuclear Bombs Still in Turkey?
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Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM)
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UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system
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Texas Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $50M from Peter Thiel
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Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy
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T-Mobile and Sprint get FCC approval to merge in 3-2 party-line vote
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Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency
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Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack
http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1
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Brian Krebs-themed carding site “BriansClub” hacked
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PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters
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Maduro unveils plan to fund Venezuela’s economy in petro cryptocurrency
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SpaceX says 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it might launch another 30k
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A house is a terrible investment (2013)
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The Introverted Leader
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Blizzard Bans Three College ‘Hearthstone’ Protesters for Six Months
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NASA unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing
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https://crowdsourcer.io
Why do European developers choose to work remotely for Israeli companies?
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The lines of code that changed everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
Different OSes produced different results for Chemists using Python
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/15/bug_python_scripts/
Mystery novelist Charles Finch on how to write a mystery
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.NET Core 3.1 Preview 1
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Trump appears to confirm U.S. nukes are in Turkey
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NASA Introduces New Spacesuits for the Moon and Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj6LYpZosRU
Why do we write dedications in books?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/why-do-we-write-dedications-in-books/
The Myth of 10,000 hours
https://medium.com/@senthil/the-myth-of-10-000-hours-hard-work-success-e309128c3d63
The lines of code that changed everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
U.S., U.K. sign deal to access data from tech companies like Facebook and Google
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200 Business Applications for Your Relationship Stack
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Google employees are debating company’s decision to ban HK Protest game
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/15/20915729/google-hong-kong-video-game-revolution-of-our-times
Spark History Server and monitoring jobs performance
https://luminousmen.com/post/spark-history-server-and-monitoring-jobs-performance
Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/man-agrees-to-pay-25000-for-abusing-youtubes-takedown-system/
Show HN: Repo for learning how to fix tech debt
https://github.com/jamesefhawkins/tech-debt-reading-list
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https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/china-s-z-20-helicopter-looks-awfully-familiar-1839076626
The Myth That Capitalism Saved the World
https://eand.co/the-myth-that-capitalism-saved-the-world-f655e2b529b1
We Talked to Andrew Yang. Here’s How He’d Fix the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/andrew-yang-privacy-internet.html
China’s helicopter prototype looks like a UFO
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/16/asia/china-new-helicopter-ufo-intl-scli-hnk/index.html
Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook
The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/say-goodbye-millennial-urban-lifestyle/599839/
Hong Kong Protest Leader Assaulted by Masked Hammer Wielding Assailants
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dio9kx/breaking_news_jimmy_sham_convenor_of_civil_rights/
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