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OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157059352620659&w=2
An open platform for financial inclusion not run by Facebook
https://www.openlibra.io/
D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched
https://threatpost.com/d-link-home-routers-unpatched/148941/
Personal information and ads on Twitter
https://help.twitter.com/en/information-and-ads
U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-exclusive/u-s-expands-blacklist-to-include-chinas-top-ai-startups-ahead-of-trade-talks-idUSKBN1WM25M
Dark mode in a website with CSS
https://tombrow.com/dark-mode-website-css
Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm
https://skerritt.blog/timsort-the-fastest-sorting-algorithm-youve-never-heard-of/
ePub 3.2
https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-spec.html
Artifact: What Went Wrong?
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/artifact-what-went-wrong/
Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/aaa-finds-your-new-car-probably-wont-stop-you-from-hitting-pedestrians/
macOS 10.15 Vista
https://tyler.io/macos-10-15-vista/
How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)
http://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/01/how-do-individual-contributors-get.html
C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing
https://www.bfilipek.com/2019/10/cppecosystem.html
Logs were our lifeblood, now they’re our liability
https://vicki.substack.com/p/logs-were-our-lifeblood-now-theyre
How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/how-much-does-air-pollution-cost-us#gs.8d3bpb
Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?
https://twitter.com/benmarrow/status/1180140772387168256
Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON
https://github.com/ldn-softdev/jtc
Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-7-0-version-history-and-beyond/
Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2019/10/08/digital-minister-orders-cafes-restaurants-to-collect-customers-wifi-data/
How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites
https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/episode-4-leif-singer/
‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer
https://lithub.com/the-three-words-that-almost-ruined-me-as-a-writer-show-dont-tell/
Habits of Expert Software Designers
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/
Climate change causes Australia to downgrade Great Barrier Reef′s outlook
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-causes-australia-to-downgrade-great-barrier-reefs-outlook/a-50224028
The Private Life of Lord Byron
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/06/the-private-life-of-lord-byron-by-antony-peattie-review
Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
https://erikbern.com/2019/09/12/misc-unsolicited-career-advice.html
Experts who say we shouldn’t worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong
NBA’s China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nba-china-revenue-business-sponsors
The Ties That Bind Facebook’s Libra
https://www.wired.com/story/ties-bind-facebooks-libra/
NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/08/crack-iphones-in-house/
N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier
https://n8n.io/
Natural Magick (1584)
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Philosophy%20of%20Magic/Natural_Magic/jportat2.html
Starving cancer by cutting off its favorite foods
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starving-cancer-cutting-its-favorite-foods-glucose-and-glutamine-14314
The China Cultural Clash
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-china-cultural-clash/
On Sitting Still in Nature
https://lithub.com/wear-your-stillness-as-disguise-on-sitting-still-in-nature/
Beware of Automated Hiring
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/opinion/ai-hiring-discrimination.html
Resilience Engineering Papers
https://github.com/lorin/resilience-engineering#resilience-engineering-papers
Abnormal String Hashing
http://pzemtsov.github.io/2019/10/07/abnormal-string-hashing.html
Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/decoding-the-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculator-known-as-the-antikythera-mechanism
99% of the Git commands you’ll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
https://bitbucket.org/BitPusher16/dotfiles/raw/49a01d929dcaebcca68bbb1859b4ac1aea93b073/refs/git/git_examples.sh
The Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism
https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/troy-vettese-global-warming-market-opportunity
Why you should have a side project
https://erickhun.com/posts/why-you-should-have-a-side-project/
Houston Rockets fan arrested in China after threatening to burn national flag
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/asia/houston-rockets-fan-arrested-china-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California early Wednesday morning
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/PG-E-power-shut-off-257-000-Bay-Area-residents-14500945.php
Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/df0zx5/upset_about_blizzards_hk_ruling_heres_what_to_do
J. Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03015-3
All paid targeting options available on social media platforms
https://www.notion.so/Targeting-Explorer-7e283ffd84d242abbbfce67476878d0f
PyPy’s New JSON Parser
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser.html
Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289/
Duolingo: Saving Endangered Languages
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/04/tech/duolingo-endangered-languages-intl-hnk/index.html
What the Formula? Managing State on Android
https://tech.instacart.com/what-the-formula-managing-state-on-android-f5569ce09274
Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/
James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement
https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement
SRE as a Lifestyle Choice
https://medium.com/@bellmar/sre-as-a-lifestyle-choice-de9f5a82d73d
Sea ’Boiling’ with Methane Discovered in Siberia
https://www.newsweek.com/methane-boiling-sea-discovered-siberia-1463766
Twitter transgression proves why its flawed 2FA system is such a privacy trap
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/twitter-used-phone-numbers-provided-for-2fa-to-match-users-to-advertisers/
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/
Clojure 1.11 planning
https://insideclojure.org/2019/10/06/journal/
Postmates’ new IPO delay indicates Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/8/20903393/postmates-ipo-market-wall-street-silicon-valley-direct-listing-wework-uber-unicorns
The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14953/the-pc-on-a-gpu-intels-new-element-brings-project-christine-to-life
OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 (summer 2020 release)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:2020
US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China’s rules
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/social-media-use-could-change-for-americans-after-chinas-nba-shutdown.html
’We good now China?’ South Park creators issue mock apology
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/08/we-good-now-china-south-park-creators-issue-mock-apology-after-show-reportedly-censored
$6B United Nations Agency Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum Crypto Fund
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/10/08/6-billion-united-nations-agency-launches-bitcoin-ethereum-crypto-fund/#25db760c493b
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 2019
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4757
Pytest for Data Scientists
https://statestitle.com/resource/pytest-for-data-scientists/
Apply to 100 software jobs at over 40 YC companies at YC’s Work at a Startup
https://workatastartup.com
Starving Cancer by Cutting Off Its Favorite Foods, Glucose and Glutamine
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starving-cancer-cutting-its-favorite-foods-glucose-and-glutamine-14314
4-Kilometer Planet-Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth in 2020
https://www.ibtimes.com/4-kilometer-planet-killer-asteroid-headed-towards-earth-2020-may-cause-human-2842061
Apple’s macOS Catalina update is a problem for DJs who relied on iTunes
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903391/apple-macos-catalina-itunes-dj-software-breaks-xml-file-support-removal-update
Mozilla announces PGP Support in Thunderbird, coming 2020
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/10/thunderbird-enigmail-and-openpgp/
Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/08/adding-static-code-analysis-to-stack-overflow/
Shackleton’s Medical Kit (2012)
https://granta.com/shackletons-medical-kit/
Show HN: Firefox Addon, display tabs grouped by privacy container in the sidebar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-tabs-sidebar/
Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources
https://devurls.com/
The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/can-a-machine-learn-to-write-for-the-new-yorker
Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion of Chinese Politics
https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-polit-1838881032
China’s hard power and hurt feelings – Nikkei Asian Review
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-hard-power-and-hurt-feelings
Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/08/nhs-opens-clinic-to-help-child-addicts-of-computer-games
A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name
https://theoutline.com/post/7907/a-good-place-the-fake-town-where-everybody-knows-your-name
Show HN: Virtual Card Read-Punch – Punch, Read, Execute Virtual Punch Cards
https://www.masswerk.at/card-readpunch/
Secret Court: FBI and NSA’s Massive Warrantless Dragnet Was Illegal
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-court-fbi-warrantless-searches-were-illegal
After ’South Park’ Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywaq3g/after-a-south-park-censorship-episode-china-deleted-the-entire-show-from-the-web
MDMA
https://www.profgalloway.com/mdma
“Was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve had to date.”
https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513
Show HN: A practical guitar sight-reading trainer
https://dpapavas.github.io/fretboard-trainer/
How I Overcame Impostor Syndrome
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03036-y
After Hearthstone player’s ban, Blizzard is in hot water with lawmakers
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905181/blizzard-hearthstone-player-ban-marco-rubio-ron-wyden-china-hong-kong-protests-blitzchung
Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-08/firefighting-foam-leaves-toxic-legacy-california-water
The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading
https://commoncog.com/blog/the-land-and-expand-strategy-for-reading/
Whistleblower: Google Boss’ Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé
https://www.thedailybeast.com/whos-a-whistleblower-gonna-trust-ask-christopher-wylie-about-the-guardian-and-cambridge-analytica
NBA chief Adam Silver says profit can’t come before the league’s principles
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/media/nba-adam-silver/index.html
An Interactive HashiCorp Vault Shell
https://github.com/fishi0x01/vsh
Saving lives for seven cents each (2013)
https://www.jefftk.com/p/saving-lives-for-seven-cents-each
US whistleblower dropped from speaking at Melbourne cybersecurity conference
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-08/us-whistleblower-speech-cancelled-at-cybersecurity-conference/11581986
I wrote a command-line Ruby program to manage EC2 instances for me
https://www.codewithjason.com/wrote-command-line-ruby-program-manage-ec2-instances/
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says league will not apologize to China
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/8/20904593/nba-china-commissioner-adam-silver-no-apology
Adventures in parametric textile pattern design
https://stuffmatic.com/blog/adventures-in-parametric-textile-pattern-design/
BentoML: A platform for serving and deploying machine learning models
https://github.com/bentoml/BentoML
Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.html
I think we can predict the future – Bill Gates (2019)
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Professor-Hawking-Fellowship-lecture
Golang Brad Fitzpatrick being attacked on his support of Hong Kong
https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1181570516059951105
A little car you can drive in France without a licence
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35210572
Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’
https://daringfireball.net/2019/10/correction_regarding_an_erroneous_allegation
3blue1brown – Why do prime numbers make these spirals?
https://youtu.be/EK32jo7i5LQ
Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2019-October/062782.html
WeWork Plans to Shed One-Third of Technology Employees
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wework-plans-to-shed-one-third-of-technology-employees
Robinhood: Cash Management
https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2019/10/8/introducing-cash-management
As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/08/climate/ghost-forests.html
Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-people-twitter.html
PG&E electricity shutoff confirmed for nearly 800k Northern CA customers
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article235904227.html
Pigs observed using tools for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-pigs-tools.html
Why Redux Makes You a Better JavaScript Developer
https://www.robinwieruch.de/redux-javascript
Show HN: Mostly ORMless – Ergonomic Postgres from TypeScript
https://github.com/jawj/mostly-ormless/blob/master/README.md
U.S. Adds Chinese Firms to Blacklist, Citing Repression of Muslim Minorities
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-adds-chinese-firms-to-blacklist-citing-repression-of-muslim-minorities-11570488642?mod=rsswn
Live Demos of Artificial Intelligence
https://jay.kanakiya.in/blog/live-demos-of-artificial-intelligence/
Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/senator-proposes-mandatory-labeling-for-products-with-mics-cameras/
Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-molecules-exist-in-two-places-at-once-in-unprecedented-quantum-experiment/
MIT SMR is unlocked today through Thursday
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tell-your-colleagues-mit-smr-is-unlocked-today-through-thursday/
Microsoft Files ’VR Floor Mat’ Patent, Possibly Aimed at Xbox VR Headset
https://www.roadtovr.com/microsoft-virtual-reality-floor-mat-patent-xbox-vr-headset/
Web Based Docker Management System
https://github.com/rakibtg/docker-web-gui
A new India is emerging, and it is a country ruled by fear
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/08/narendra-modi-bjp-india
Restoring felon voting rights a ’mess’ in battleground Florida
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-florida-felons-insight/restoring-felon-voting-rights-a-mess-in-battleground-florida-idUSKBN1WM0YV
Half of millennials and 75% of Gen-Zers have quit jobs for mental health reasons
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/millennials-gen-z-have-quit-jobs-due-to-mental-health-issues-survey.html
‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history
https://www.timesofisrael.com/embargo-until-1130-5000-year-old-canaanite-megalopolis-rewrites-history-books-say-archaeologists/
Scientists crack nature’s secrets to develop future materials
https://www.ft.com/content/a3baf2d8-be72-11e9-9381-78bab8a70848
Rwanda launches first ’Made in Africa’ smartphone and first manufacturing plant
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-telecoms/rwanda-launches-first-made-in-africa-smartphones-idUSKBN1WM1TN
California Cities and towns without electricity for 5-7 days
https://twitter.com/CityofSanJose/status/1181371474851979264/photo/1
Android co-founder Andy Rubin unveils a super tall mystery phone
https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/1181688552070889473/photo/1
What’s an SQL query you’ve written that was hard and/or fun to write?
https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1175068822107279362
California has banned political deepfakes during election season
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20902884/california-deepfake-political-ban-election-2020
Most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of minorities
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-racial-ethnic-groups/
Autumn issue of 2600 now available for download
https://www.2600.com/content/autumn-issue-2600-now-available-download
Show HN: Candidate Code – take home coding test management
https://candidatecode.com/
Show HN: The new Browsee has arrived
https://browsee.io/
Boeing taking $20M stake in Virgin Galactic
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/boeing-20-million-stake-in-virgin-galactic-with-vision-of-hypersonic.html
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to 3 scientists
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-nobel-prize-physics-awarded-scientists.html
A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-playstation-5/
Navy Pilot Says Dark Mass made Torpedo disappear
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a29400304/navy-pilot-dark-mass-torpedo-disappear/
A 6-Step Meeting Guide to Bring Focus to Your Team Check-Ins
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/08/check-in-meeting-guide/#.XZyNWq6xxWo.hackernews
Researchers completely made up claim about men’s drinking before conception
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/researchers-completely-made-up-claim-about-mens-drinking-before-conception/
Veloren: An open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/keep-an-eye-on-veloren-an-open-source-multiplayer-voxel-rpg-written-in-rust.15155
MIT Sloan Management Review drops its paywall for 72 hours
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/08/3-day-jubilee.html
Writing Emails Asking for Help
http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2017/03/03/writing-emails-asking-for-help.html
Heat waves could increase substantially in size by mid-century, says new study
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-substantially-size-mid-century.html
Show HN: ParcelUI – a boilerplate project using parcel, TypeScript
https://github.com/ngduc/parcelui
Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/travel/russia-kamchatka-bears-volcanoes.html
Chinese netizens say they support 9/11 in response to Adam Silver
http://shanghaiist.com/2019/10/08/adam-silver-says-he-supports-moreys-right-to-free-speech-chinese-netizens-say-then-they-support-9-11/
Cleveland Woman Could Go to Jail Because Her House Needs a New Coat of Paint
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x57xq/this-cleveland-woman-could-go-to-jail-because-her-house-needs-a-new-coat-of-paint
Everyone’s Airpods Will Die; Not Possible to Swap Batteries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/08/everyones-airpods-will-die-weve-got-trick-replacing-them/
Lectures Notes on Algorithmic Game Theory [pdf]
http://timroughgarden.org/f13/f13.pdf
Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and Copyleft (2014)
https://lwn.net/Articles/582242/
NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyberconference at govt request
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/08/us-whistleblower-thomas-drake-says-speech-was-cancelled-due-to-government-pressure
Age – A simple file encryption tool and format (by FiloSottile and Benjojo12)
https://age-tool.com/
Hey developers, own your canonical
https://hashnode.com/post/hey-developers-own-your-canonical-ck1ggpmgs000cd9s1323ltbo7
Post Modern C Tooling
http://renesd.blogspot.com/2019/09/post-modern-c-tooling.html
Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest
https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/9254/blizzard-has-removed-blitzchung-from-grandmasters-and-banned-him-from-competing-in-hearthstone-following-his-on-stream-hong-kong-protest
A wild Demogorgon just wrecked your Kubernetes cluster
https://engineering.q42.nl/production-incidents-training/
US puts visa restrictions on Chinese officials over abuses of Muslims in Xinjian
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/us-puts-visa-restrictions-on-chinese-officials-over-abuses-of-muslims-in-xinjiang.html
Whistleblower talks banned at Australian cyber security conference by govt
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3444596/speaker-disinvites-at-cybercon-spark-controversy.html
Null License Plate
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
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OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157059352620659&w=2
An open platform for financial inclusion not run by Facebook
https://www.openlibra.io/
D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched
https://threatpost.com/d-link-home-routers-unpatched/148941/
Personal information and ads on Twitter
https://help.twitter.com/en/information-and-ads
U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-exclusive/u-s-expands-blacklist-to-include-chinas-top-ai-startups-ahead-of-trade-talks-idUSKBN1WM25M
Dark mode in a website with CSS
https://tombrow.com/dark-mode-website-css
Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm
https://skerritt.blog/timsort-the-fastest-sorting-algorithm-youve-never-heard-of/
ePub 3.2
https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-spec.html
Artifact: What Went Wrong?
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/artifact-what-went-wrong/
Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/aaa-finds-your-new-car-probably-wont-stop-you-from-hitting-pedestrians/
macOS 10.15 Vista
https://tyler.io/macos-10-15-vista/
How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)
http://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/01/how-do-individual-contributors-get.html
C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing
https://www.bfilipek.com/2019/10/cppecosystem.html
Logs were our lifeblood, now they’re our liability
https://vicki.substack.com/p/logs-were-our-lifeblood-now-theyre
How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/how-much-does-air-pollution-cost-us#gs.8d3bpb
Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?
https://twitter.com/benmarrow/status/1180140772387168256
Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON
https://github.com/ldn-softdev/jtc
Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-7-0-version-history-and-beyond/
Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2019/10/08/digital-minister-orders-cafes-restaurants-to-collect-customers-wifi-data/
How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites
https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/episode-4-leif-singer/
‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer
https://lithub.com/the-three-words-that-almost-ruined-me-as-a-writer-show-dont-tell/
Habits of Expert Software Designers
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/
Climate change causes Australia to downgrade Great Barrier Reef′s outlook
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-causes-australia-to-downgrade-great-barrier-reefs-outlook/a-50224028
The Private Life of Lord Byron
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/06/the-private-life-of-lord-byron-by-antony-peattie-review
Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
https://erikbern.com/2019/09/12/misc-unsolicited-career-advice.html
Experts who say we shouldn’t worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong
NBA’s China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nba-china-revenue-business-sponsors
The Ties That Bind Facebook’s Libra
https://www.wired.com/story/ties-bind-facebooks-libra/
NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/08/crack-iphones-in-house/
N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier
https://n8n.io/
Natural Magick (1584)
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Philosophy%20of%20Magic/Natural_Magic/jportat2.html
Starving cancer by cutting off its favorite foods
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starving-cancer-cutting-its-favorite-foods-glucose-and-glutamine-14314
The China Cultural Clash
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-china-cultural-clash/
On Sitting Still in Nature
https://lithub.com/wear-your-stillness-as-disguise-on-sitting-still-in-nature/
Beware of Automated Hiring
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/opinion/ai-hiring-discrimination.html
Resilience Engineering Papers
https://github.com/lorin/resilience-engineering#resilience-engineering-papers
Abnormal String Hashing
http://pzemtsov.github.io/2019/10/07/abnormal-string-hashing.html
Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/decoding-the-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculator-known-as-the-antikythera-mechanism
99% of the Git commands you’ll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
https://bitbucket.org/BitPusher16/dotfiles/raw/49a01d929dcaebcca68bbb1859b4ac1aea93b073/refs/git/git_examples.sh
The Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism
https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/troy-vettese-global-warming-market-opportunity
Why you should have a side project
https://erickhun.com/posts/why-you-should-have-a-side-project/
Houston Rockets fan arrested in China after threatening to burn national flag
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/asia/houston-rockets-fan-arrested-china-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California early Wednesday morning
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/PG-E-power-shut-off-257-000-Bay-Area-residents-14500945.php
Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/df0zx5/upset_about_blizzards_hk_ruling_heres_what_to_do
J. Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03015-3
All paid targeting options available on social media platforms
https://www.notion.so/Targeting-Explorer-7e283ffd84d242abbbfce67476878d0f
PyPy’s New JSON Parser
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser.html
Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289/
Duolingo: Saving Endangered Languages
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/04/tech/duolingo-endangered-languages-intl-hnk/index.html
What the Formula? Managing State on Android
https://tech.instacart.com/what-the-formula-managing-state-on-android-f5569ce09274
Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/
James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement
https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement
SRE as a Lifestyle Choice
https://medium.com/@bellmar/sre-as-a-lifestyle-choice-de9f5a82d73d
Sea ’Boiling’ with Methane Discovered in Siberia
https://www.newsweek.com/methane-boiling-sea-discovered-siberia-1463766
Twitter transgression proves why its flawed 2FA system is such a privacy trap
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/twitter-used-phone-numbers-provided-for-2fa-to-match-users-to-advertisers/
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/
Clojure 1.11 planning
https://insideclojure.org/2019/10/06/journal/
Postmates’ new IPO delay indicates Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/8/20903393/postmates-ipo-market-wall-street-silicon-valley-direct-listing-wework-uber-unicorns
The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14953/the-pc-on-a-gpu-intels-new-element-brings-project-christine-to-life
OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 (summer 2020 release)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:2020
US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China’s rules
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/social-media-use-could-change-for-americans-after-chinas-nba-shutdown.html
’We good now China?’ South Park creators issue mock apology
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/08/we-good-now-china-south-park-creators-issue-mock-apology-after-show-reportedly-censored
$6B United Nations Agency Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum Crypto Fund
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/10/08/6-billion-united-nations-agency-launches-bitcoin-ethereum-crypto-fund/#25db760c493b
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 2019
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4757
Pytest for Data Scientists
https://statestitle.com/resource/pytest-for-data-scientists/
Apply to 100 software jobs at over 40 YC companies at YC’s Work at a Startup
https://workatastartup.com
Starving Cancer by Cutting Off Its Favorite Foods, Glucose and Glutamine
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starving-cancer-cutting-its-favorite-foods-glucose-and-glutamine-14314
4-Kilometer Planet-Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth in 2020
https://www.ibtimes.com/4-kilometer-planet-killer-asteroid-headed-towards-earth-2020-may-cause-human-2842061
Apple’s macOS Catalina update is a problem for DJs who relied on iTunes
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903391/apple-macos-catalina-itunes-dj-software-breaks-xml-file-support-removal-update
Mozilla announces PGP Support in Thunderbird, coming 2020
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/10/thunderbird-enigmail-and-openpgp/
Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/08/adding-static-code-analysis-to-stack-overflow/
Shackleton’s Medical Kit (2012)
https://granta.com/shackletons-medical-kit/
Show HN: Firefox Addon, display tabs grouped by privacy container in the sidebar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-tabs-sidebar/
Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources
https://devurls.com/
The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/can-a-machine-learn-to-write-for-the-new-yorker
Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion of Chinese Politics
https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-polit-1838881032
China’s hard power and hurt feelings – Nikkei Asian Review
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-hard-power-and-hurt-feelings
Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/08/nhs-opens-clinic-to-help-child-addicts-of-computer-games
A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name
https://theoutline.com/post/7907/a-good-place-the-fake-town-where-everybody-knows-your-name
Show HN: Virtual Card Read-Punch – Punch, Read, Execute Virtual Punch Cards
https://www.masswerk.at/card-readpunch/
Secret Court: FBI and NSA’s Massive Warrantless Dragnet Was Illegal
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-court-fbi-warrantless-searches-were-illegal
After ’South Park’ Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywaq3g/after-a-south-park-censorship-episode-china-deleted-the-entire-show-from-the-web
MDMA
https://www.profgalloway.com/mdma
“Was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve had to date.”
https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513
Show HN: A practical guitar sight-reading trainer
https://dpapavas.github.io/fretboard-trainer/
How I Overcame Impostor Syndrome
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03036-y
After Hearthstone player’s ban, Blizzard is in hot water with lawmakers
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905181/blizzard-hearthstone-player-ban-marco-rubio-ron-wyden-china-hong-kong-protests-blitzchung
Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-08/firefighting-foam-leaves-toxic-legacy-california-water
The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading
https://commoncog.com/blog/the-land-and-expand-strategy-for-reading/
Whistleblower: Google Boss’ Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé
https://www.thedailybeast.com/whos-a-whistleblower-gonna-trust-ask-christopher-wylie-about-the-guardian-and-cambridge-analytica
NBA chief Adam Silver says profit can’t come before the league’s principles
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/media/nba-adam-silver/index.html
An Interactive HashiCorp Vault Shell
https://github.com/fishi0x01/vsh
Saving lives for seven cents each (2013)
https://www.jefftk.com/p/saving-lives-for-seven-cents-each
US whistleblower dropped from speaking at Melbourne cybersecurity conference
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-08/us-whistleblower-speech-cancelled-at-cybersecurity-conference/11581986
I wrote a command-line Ruby program to manage EC2 instances for me
https://www.codewithjason.com/wrote-command-line-ruby-program-manage-ec2-instances/
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says league will not apologize to China
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/8/20904593/nba-china-commissioner-adam-silver-no-apology
Adventures in parametric textile pattern design
https://stuffmatic.com/blog/adventures-in-parametric-textile-pattern-design/
BentoML: A platform for serving and deploying machine learning models
https://github.com/bentoml/BentoML
Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.html
I think we can predict the future – Bill Gates (2019)
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Professor-Hawking-Fellowship-lecture
Golang Brad Fitzpatrick being attacked on his support of Hong Kong
https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1181570516059951105
A little car you can drive in France without a licence
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35210572
Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’
https://daringfireball.net/2019/10/correction_regarding_an_erroneous_allegation
3blue1brown – Why do prime numbers make these spirals?
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Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird
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WeWork Plans to Shed One-Third of Technology Employees
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wework-plans-to-shed-one-third-of-technology-employees
Robinhood: Cash Management
https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2019/10/8/introducing-cash-management
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/08/climate/ghost-forests.html
Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First
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PG&E electricity shutoff confirmed for nearly 800k Northern CA customers
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Pigs observed using tools for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-pigs-tools.html
Why Redux Makes You a Better JavaScript Developer
https://www.robinwieruch.de/redux-javascript
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https://github.com/jawj/mostly-ormless/blob/master/README.md
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Live Demos of Artificial Intelligence
https://jay.kanakiya.in/blog/live-demos-of-artificial-intelligence/
Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras
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Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
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MIT SMR is unlocked today through Thursday
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Microsoft Files ’VR Floor Mat’ Patent, Possibly Aimed at Xbox VR Headset
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Web Based Docker Management System
https://github.com/rakibtg/docker-web-gui
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Restoring felon voting rights a ’mess’ in battleground Florida
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Half of millennials and 75% of Gen-Zers have quit jobs for mental health reasons
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‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history
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Scientists crack nature’s secrets to develop future materials
https://www.ft.com/content/a3baf2d8-be72-11e9-9381-78bab8a70848
Rwanda launches first ’Made in Africa’ smartphone and first manufacturing plant
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California Cities and towns without electricity for 5-7 days
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Android co-founder Andy Rubin unveils a super tall mystery phone
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What’s an SQL query you’ve written that was hard and/or fun to write?
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California has banned political deepfakes during election season
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20902884/california-deepfake-political-ban-election-2020
Most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of minorities
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Autumn issue of 2600 now available for download
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https://candidatecode.com/
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Boeing taking $20M stake in Virgin Galactic
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Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to 3 scientists
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-nobel-prize-physics-awarded-scientists.html
A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5
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Navy Pilot Says Dark Mass made Torpedo disappear
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A 6-Step Meeting Guide to Bring Focus to Your Team Check-Ins
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Researchers completely made up claim about men’s drinking before conception
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Veloren: An open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/keep-an-eye-on-veloren-an-open-source-multiplayer-voxel-rpg-written-in-rust.15155
MIT Sloan Management Review drops its paywall for 72 hours
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/08/3-day-jubilee.html
Writing Emails Asking for Help
http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2017/03/03/writing-emails-asking-for-help.html
Heat waves could increase substantially in size by mid-century, says new study
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-substantially-size-mid-century.html
Show HN: ParcelUI – a boilerplate project using parcel, TypeScript
https://github.com/ngduc/parcelui
Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/travel/russia-kamchatka-bears-volcanoes.html
Chinese netizens say they support 9/11 in response to Adam Silver
http://shanghaiist.com/2019/10/08/adam-silver-says-he-supports-moreys-right-to-free-speech-chinese-netizens-say-then-they-support-9-11/
Cleveland Woman Could Go to Jail Because Her House Needs a New Coat of Paint
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Everyone’s Airpods Will Die; Not Possible to Swap Batteries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/08/everyones-airpods-will-die-weve-got-trick-replacing-them/
Lectures Notes on Algorithmic Game Theory [pdf]
http://timroughgarden.org/f13/f13.pdf
Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and Copyleft (2014)
https://lwn.net/Articles/582242/
NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyberconference at govt request
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/08/us-whistleblower-thomas-drake-says-speech-was-cancelled-due-to-government-pressure
Age – A simple file encryption tool and format (by FiloSottile and Benjojo12)
https://age-tool.com/
Hey developers, own your canonical
https://hashnode.com/post/hey-developers-own-your-canonical-ck1ggpmgs000cd9s1323ltbo7
Post Modern C Tooling
http://renesd.blogspot.com/2019/09/post-modern-c-tooling.html
Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest
https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/9254/blizzard-has-removed-blitzchung-from-grandmasters-and-banned-him-from-competing-in-hearthstone-following-his-on-stream-hong-kong-protest
A wild Demogorgon just wrecked your Kubernetes cluster
https://engineering.q42.nl/production-incidents-training/
US puts visa restrictions on Chinese officials over abuses of Muslims in Xinjian
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/us-puts-visa-restrictions-on-chinese-officials-over-abuses-of-muslims-in-xinjiang.html
Whistleblower talks banned at Australian cyber security conference by govt
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3444596/speaker-disinvites-at-cybercon-spark-controversy.html
Null License Plate
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
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