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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]
https://opendocs.github.io/sicp/sicp.pdf

Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool
https://easyigloo.org

Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0
https://www.evilsocket.net/2019/10/19/Weaponizing-and-Gamifying-AI-for-WiFi-Hacking-Presenting-Pwnagotchi-1-0-0/#.Xas1JEBAewV.reddit

Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

DNS over HTTPS, Intro by Mozilla
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/

Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
http://orbis.stanford.edu/

Lesser Known Coding Fonts
https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/

When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
https://features.propublica.org/medical-debt/when-medical-debt-collectors-decide-who-gets-arrested-coffeyville-kansas/

How oral contraceptives may affect women’s minds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/19/dr-sarah-e-hill-how-pill-influences-womens-brains

Working with Errors in Go 1.13
https://blog.golang.org/go1.13-errors

Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations
https://www.learn-clojurescript.com/section-3/lesson-17-discovering-sequence-operations/

Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations
https://egghead.ucdavis.edu/2019/10/18/math-breakthrough-speeds-supercomputer-simulations/

Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE
https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning
https://eos.org/articles/ancient-maya-farms-revealed-by-laser-scanning

ET Don’t Phone Home
https://jacquesmattheij.com/et-phone-home/

When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/us/news-desert-ann-arbor-michigan.html

Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game
https://blackjackbreak.com

An electric crate motor you can drop into your car
https://jalopnik.com/finally-an-electric-crate-motor-you-can-drop-into-your-1839168140

Disney: Bob Iger bets the company (and Hollywood’s future) on streaming
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bob-iger-bets-company-hollywood-s-future-streaming-1247663

Fuzzing the Z-Machine
http://8bitworkshop.com/blog/misc/fuzzing-the-z-machine.md.html

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html

Pop_OS 19.10
https://system76.com/pop

Tina is not a CMS
https://tinacms.org/blog/announcing-tinacms/

2020 OS Migration
https://project-trident.org/post/os_migration/

Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?
https://elemental.medium.com/why-does-inflammation-seem-to-underlie-all-sickness-64a2bef84f99

ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression
http://www.oranlooney.com/post/ml-from-scratch-part-1-linear-regression/

Potatos are as effective as carbohydrate gels for prolonged cycling performance
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00567.2019

Show HN: Time Door – A time series analysis API
https://timedoor.io

Saasify – Monetize Your OSS Projects
https://saasify.sh/

The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
https://www.fast.ai/2019/09/24/metrics/

All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers
https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/see/news/Pages/All-plastic-waste-could-be-recycled-into-new-high-quality-plastic.aspx

Old grammar forms live on in American English
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/17/how-america-saved-old-fashioned-english-grammar

Creativity is bad for UI design (2018)
https://uxengineer.com/good-ux-boring-ui/

Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140416021831/http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/000937.html

The $68k Fish: The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/11/the-68000-fish-salmon-columbia-river/

Hong Kong protests: NBA fans join anti-China display
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50107335

This Guy Just Found a Faster Way to Multiply
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a29514208/faster-way-multiply/

CVS turned a tobacco ban into a financial win
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/courage-business-counts-how-cvs-turned-tobacco-ban-financial-sinek/

Terror management theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits
https://observablehq.com/@rreusser/periodic-planar-three-body-orbits

Lando: A Liberating Dev Tool for All Your Projects
https://lando.dev

The $10m Engineering Problem
https://segment.com/blog/the-10m-engineering-problem/

Egypt uncovers ’huge cache’ of ancient sealed coffins
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/luxor-egyptian-coffins-hnk-scli/index.html

Trains in Switzerland are not allowed to have 256 axles
https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1185544321933758467

Superfast Nike shoes are creating a problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/sports/marathon-running-nike-vaporfly-shoes.html

International Repair Day
https://openrepair.org/international-repair-day/

No Overview Available: A Survey of Apple Developer Documentation
https://nooverviewavailable.com/

Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/18/record-number-colleges-drop-satact-admissions-requirement-amid-growing-disenchantment-with-standardized-tests/

Enable Pages access control
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/issues/5576

High IQ Meeting? How Jeff Bezos Decides in 5 Seconds or Less
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/heres-how-amazon-employees-know-in-5-seconds-if-jeff-bezos-thinks-a-meeting-requires-high-iq-brainpower.html

Computational “Match Game” Identifies Potential Antibiotics
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/october/match-game-identifies-antibiotics.html

Collision Avoidance Challenge
https://kelvins.esa.int/collision-avoidance-challenge/home/

‘People Were Bleeding All Over’: America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/nyregion/action-park-movie.html

Unit Economics (2015)
https://blog.samaltman.com/unit-economics

UC Davis Wondered If $175,000 Would Make the Internet Go Away. Conclusion: No.
https://www.popehat.com/2016/04/14/uc-davis-wondered-if-175000-would-make-the-internet-go-away-conclusion-no/

We (Novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

A Basic HN Client in React
https://github.com/armujahid/hnreact/

Boeing Pilot’s 2016 Worry on ‘Egregious’ Max Roils Jet’s Future
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-19/boeing-pilot-s-2016-worry-on-egregious-max-roils-jet-s-future

Wren: A small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
http://wren.io/

YouTube two hours advertisements with Asian folks?
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/13332769?hl=en

Bike designed with artificial intelligence breaks world speed records – EPFL
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/bike-designed-with-artificial-intelligence-break-5/

COMEFROM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

Cheap, convenient and almost gone: Uber, DoorDash and similar apps
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Cheap-convenient-and-almost-gone-Uber-DoorDash-14545572.php

HackPPL: A universal probabilistic programming language
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/18/hackppl/

Iceland Grey Listed for Inadequate Money Laundering Policies
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-grey-listed-for-inadequate-money-laundering-policies/

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plastics-pollution/

The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat
https://www.economist.com/china/2019/10/17/the-planet-needs-china-to-curb-its-appetite-for-meat

Climate and Unsheltered Homeless in the Continental United States
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and-unsheltered-homeless-in.html?m=1

In 1964 a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off New York’s Biggest Jewel Heist
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/nyregion/natural-history-museum-jewelry-heist.html

Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/10/08/debugging-unmanaged-and-hidden-memory-leaks-in-ruby

Show HN: Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python
https://github.com/susam/mintotp

Satellite images reveal China’s aircraft carrier factory
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-military-carrier-exclusive/exclusive-satellite-images-reveal-chinas-aircraft-carrier-factory-analysts-say-idUSKBN1WW0KM

Feedback Noise
https://docs.sendwithses.com/random-stuff/feedback-noise

The Roots of Creativity and Genius
https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/genius

How to Spot a Toxic Person in the First 5 Minutes [video]
https://www.inc.com/video/how-to-spot-a-toxic-person-in-the-first-5-minutes.html

Google gets green light to access five years of NHS patient data
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220344-google-gets-green-light-to-access-five-years-of-nhs-patient-data/

Huawei in early talks with U.S. firms to license 5G platform
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-licensing-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-in-early-talks-with-u-s-firms-to-license-5g-platform-huawei-executive-idUKKBN1WY010

Hands-On of Purism Librem 5 Linux Phone
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hands-on-video-of-the-Librem-5-Linux-phone-shows-improvements-but-there-is-a-lot-of-work-left-to-do.438741.0.html

CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-Cost Abstractions”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc&t=1321s

Dijkstra: On a somewhat disappointing correspondance (1987) [pdf]
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1009.PDF

AMD Zen 2 Improvements for LLVM Have Been Held Up for Months by Code Review
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-znver2-Scheduler-LLVM-Pend

New Zealand firm’s four-day week an ’unmitigated success’ (2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/work-less-get-more-new-zealand-firms-four-day-week-an-unmitigated-success

Pretty and consise ray-marched fractals
https://gist.github.com/felipetavares/249051d0aa7572d31fc43b5f41f0f357

“scrolling” was illustrated in early computer manuals
https://twitter.com/ryancordell/status/1185212092883914754

Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes
https://xojoc.pw/games2d/4snakes/

Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/18/adam-neumann-planned-for-his-children-and-grandchildren-to-control-wework/

The Not-Com Bubble Is Popping
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/600232/

Minimal Notes app sync online/offline data using PouchDB/CouchDB replication
https://github.com/hsbalar/preserver-plus

Art Was Supposed to Save Canada’s Inuit. It Hasn’t
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/world/canada/canada-indigenous-art.html

Mexican police capture then release El Chapo’s Son after Battling with cartel
http://boomvibes.com/mexican-police-capture-then-release-el-chapos-son-after-battling-with-cartel/

Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch 2 Years Before Deadly Crash
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771451904/boeing-pilots-detected-737-max-flight-control-glitch-two-years-before-deadly-cra

Rent Needs to Decrease
https://www.jefftk.com/p/rent-needs-to-decrease

The world’s top economists just made the case for why we need English majors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/19/worlds-top-economists-just-made-case-why-we-still-need-english-majors/

Windows Defender is still one of the best antivirus solutions, indie lab says
https://www.techspot.com/news/82392-windows-defender-one-best-antivirus-solutions-independent-testing.html

Microsoft admits Android is the best operating system for mobile devices
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-admits-android-is-the-best-operating-system-for-mobile-devices

Chile protests: state of emergency declared in Santiago as violence escalates
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/19/chile-protests-state-of-emergency-declared-in-santiago-as-violence-escalates

How the Sinaloa Cartel Bested the Mexican Army
https://time.com/5705358/sinaloa-cartel-mexico-culiacan/

YouTube Disables Comments for Special Books by Special Kids
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-disables-comment-special-books-by-special-kids/

55 Lessons from 5 Years in React
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsid5bnphznbvjv/Lessons%20learned%20from%205%20years%20in%20React.docx?dl=0

Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-health-puzzle-young-people-having-less-sex-contracting-more-stds-11571391000?mod=rsswn

Germany Averted an Opioid Crisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-germany-averted-opioid-crisis-n1068286

Bigslice: A system for fast, large-scale, serverless data processing using Go
https://bigslice.io

Bot finds bugs and submits patches, masquerading as human
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/repairnator-is-everywhere.html

New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches
https://www.filfre.net/2019/10/new-tricks-for-an-old-z-machine-part-1-digging-the-trenches/

We Are Typists First, Programmers Second (2008)
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmers-second/

“Behold Mark Zuckerberg’s Revised Origin Story for Facebook”
https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1184908897196429314

The Simple Reason That Humans Can’t Control Wildfires
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/california-wildfire-why-humans-cant-control-them/575740/

Kubernetes deployment strategies (2017)
https://blog.container-solutions.com/kubernetes-deployment-strategies

Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/explaining-how-fighting-games-use-delay-based-and-rollback-netcode/

Lawmakers Slam Apple for ‘Censorship’ of Apps at China’s Behest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-18/lawmakers-slam-apple-for-censorship-of-apps-at-china-s-behest

Technology exposed Syrian war crimes over and over again. Was it for nothing?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614496/technology-exposed-syrian-war-crimes-over-and-over-was-it-for-nothing/

Show HN: Workflow, a “Screen Time” App for Linux
https://gitlab.com/cunidev/workflow

Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/air-force-finally-retires-8-inch-floppies-from-missile-launch-control-system/

Tesla gets the go-ahead to build cars in China
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50080806

Sell While You Hire
https://medium.com/unusual-ventures/sell-while-you-hire-3b11022fad09

Samsung’s ’Linux on DeX’ project shuts down after just 11 months
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/18/samsungs-linux-on-dex-project-shuts-down-after-just-11-months/

A million people are jailed at China’s gulags
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216?__twitter_impression=true

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand free speech in the 21st century
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/18/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-21st-century

How the Women-Only Facebook Group Minbar-Shat Helped Overthrow the Sudanese Gov
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a29355590/minbar-shat-facebook-sudan-revolution/

How to protect a website against hackers‎
https://medium.com/@Pentestit_ru/how-to-protect-a-website-against-hackers-860282772f90

Architecting a Decentralized GitHub Backup
https://medium.com/@storjproject/architecting-a-decentralized-github-backup-c10a4e6913b8

Popular Web Frameworks Available to Use Directly in Python
https://www.codespeedy.com/popular-frameworks-of-python/

Mark Zuckerberg still doesn’t get it
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/mark-zuckerberg-still-doesnt-get-it

Hong Kong is exporting its protest techniques around the world
https://qz.com/1728078/be-water-catalonia-protesters-learn-from-hong-kong/

Trump Campaign Website Left Open to Email Server Hijack
https://threatpost.com/trump-campaign-website-allowed-email-hijack/149278/

Zuckerberg: 6 out of top 10 Internet platform apps are Chinese
https://twitter.com/marcusgilmer/status/1184887332870283265

We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/why-we-need-to-design-health-care-reform-that-puts-patients-before-profits/

How Guilty Should You Feel About Flying?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/17/climate/flying-shame-emissions.html

Oracle Says Co-CEO Mark Hurd Has Died
https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-says-co-ceo-mark-hurd-has-died-11571414910?mod=rsswn

WireGuard restored in Google Play Store after controversial removal
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-October/004597.html

Mozilla’s initiative to help teach machines how real people speak
https://voice.mozilla.org/en

Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/10/microsoft-open-sources-sanddance-visual-data-exploration-tool/

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Their Taxes for Free
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free#168905

Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, Has Died
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/18/tech/mark-hurd-dead/index.html

Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/boeing-flight-simulator-text-message.html



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