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Galactic Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm

Paypal Withdraws from Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/paypal-withdraws-from-facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency.html

Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02622-4

Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688

Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1943

Sqlite 3.30.0
https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html

A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
https://thenewstack.io/a-new-linux-memory-controller-promises-to-save-lots-of-ram/

Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/alert-vpn-vulnerabilities

A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/09/urban-planning-zurich-public-transit-street-design-traffic/599011/

Ivan Chisov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov

Pigs recorded using tools
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/10/first-tool-use-pigs-visayan-endangered/

Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn

XMPP: A Communication Protocol for the Internet of Things
https://www.briskbraintech.com/xmpp-a-communication-protocol-for-the-internet-of-things/

3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler
https://old.reddit.com/r/tinycode/comments/d4kdco/3d_animation_with_sound_in_64_bytes_of_assembler/

The Walking Arm Trebuchet
https://www.instructables.com/id/Worlds-Simplest-and-Newest-Trebuchet-Walking-Arm-T/

A Philosopher’s Case Against Replay Review
https://deadspin.com/a-philosophers-definitive-and-slightly-maddening-case-1838637147

VRLA Mixed Reality Easter Egg Hunt (2017)
https://ralphbarbagallo.com/2017/04/17/vrla-mixed-reality-easter-egg-hunt-behind-the-scenes/

Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast
https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/

Karatsuba Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm

Pricing niche products
https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/

The rise of the financial machines
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/03/the-rise-of-the-financial-machines

Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/03/theranos-disgraced-founder-elizabeth-holmes-cant-pay-lawyers-lawyers-claim/

College Students Just Want Normal Libraries
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/college-students-dont-want-fancy-libraries/599455/

The State of Augmented Reality
https://sayduck.com/2019/09/27/state-of-ar/

WeWork Rivals Pitch to Win Back Market Share, Try Not to Gloat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-04/wework-rivals-pitching-to-win-back-market-share-try-not-to-gloat

Why Are Mountains So High? Mysterious Anomaly Exposes Limits of Theory
https://scitechdaily.com/why-are-mountains-so-high-mysterious-anomaly-exposes-limits-of-conventional-theory/

Making My Own Glasses
https://www.eidel.io/2019/04/24/making-my-own-glasses/

Cars All but Banned on One of Manhattan’s Busiest Streets
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/nyregion/car-ban-14th-street-manhattan.html

Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s (2013)
http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/rules-of-the-tribe-hardcore-punks-and-hair-metal-in-the-1980s

Highlight negative results to improve science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02960-3

India’s elephant-friendly tea garden
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191003-indias-elephant-friendly-tea-garden

Rethinking Robert’s Rules of Order
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/profits-order/

Fast HSV to RGB Conversion
http://www.vagrearg.org/content/hsvrgb

The World of Medieval Dogdom
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/world-medieval-dogdom

A dissident who beats up Tai Chi masters
https://deadspin.com/he-never-intended-to-become-a-political-dissident-but-1838706430

Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms
https://www.eejournal.com/article/xilinx-vitis-and-vitis-ai-software-development-platforms/

Implementing a Network-Based Model of Epilepsy with Numpy and Numba
https://danielegrattarola.github.io/posts/2019-10-03/epilepsy-model.html

A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks
https://qz.com/1721901/hong-kong-anti-mask-law-a-history-of-mask-bans-around-the-world/

In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/health/pancreatic-cancer-fungi.html

Streets with Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/streets-with-nooks-and-crannies-are-beloved-and-endangered/

Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]
https://python.cs.southern.edu/pythonbook/pythonbook.pdf

Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age
https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/2750

Isopod: Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Config
https://github.com/cruise-automation/isopod

Ludum Dare 45 gamejam starting soon
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/

Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/uae-propaganda

A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/4/20899034/poker-cheating-mike-postle-stones-gambling-hall-twitch-no-limit-holdem-sacramento-veronica-brill

One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be flooded by a dam
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-03/ancient-city-hasankeyf-underwater

Calibre 4.0
https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen

Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)
https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next

Where to find the hours to make it happen
https://sivers.org/uncomf

Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says

Scientist Who Discredited Meat Guidelines Didn’t Report Past Food Industry Ties
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/well/eat/scientist-who-discredited-meat-guidelines-didnt-report-past-food-industry-ties.html

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
https://introtcs.org/public/index.html

Measuring the impact of 95k landing pages
https://segment.com/blog/lessons-learned-95000-landing-pages/

We decided to go for the big rewrite
https://tech.channable.com/posts/2019-10-04-why-we-decided-to-go-for-the-big-rewrite.html

Doing enterprise financial data visualization after data journalism
https://medium.com/@tophtucker/doing-enterprise-financial-data-visualization-after-data-journalism-3c68861b7f4c

Ex-Google, current Coda Architect shares personal remote stories
https://content.remote.tools/ex-google-current-coda-architect-shares-personal-remote-stories/

Super Nintendo Game Bugs
https://byuu.net/game-bugs/snes

Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/global-groundwater-extraction-a-ticking-time-bomb

We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production
https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture-executive-summary

ArXiv Vanity
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com

How to Succeed in Business? Major in Liberal Arts
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-04/tech-should-look-beyond-stem-and-covet-liberal-arts-grads

Green AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10597

33% of buses will be electric by 2030
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/new-report-33-of-buses-will-be-electric-by-2030/

Using Hashicorp Vault on Kubernetes
https://caylent.com/using-hashicorp-vault-on-kubernetes

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language-rp

Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1,650 per Canadian
https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies-amount-to-1650-per-canadian-its-got-to-stop/

Get a LoadBalancer for your private Kubernetes cluster
https://blog.alexellis.io/ingress-for-your-local-kubernetes-cluster/

Bohm Dialogue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue

TexTrolls: Identifying Russian Trolls on Twitter from a Textual Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01340

Automation-friendly software systems and how to build them
https://itnext.io/automation-friendly-software-systems-and-how-to-build-them-7a7c5e3c1a15

Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/800946/a9ad9aba46f14e78/

Show HN: A talk about BASH scripts
https://erkanerol.github.io/bash-lingua-non-grata

The Idea Maze (2013)
http://cdixon.org/2013/08/04/the-idea-maze/

Lucretian Prehistory: An Epicurean view of the pros and cons of civilization
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lucretian-prehistory

Look out for the second 2019 GPS week number rollover
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/03/roll/

Beauty and the Code
https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-03-the-beautiful-code/

Inmate secretly films for years in Florida prison showing its danger, squalor
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/florida-prisons/article235623292.html

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn’t use its software
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_merula/

React Native developers who switched to Flutter, was it a good decision?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/ddds0p/react_native_developers_who_switched_to_flutter/

EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unlawful content worldwide
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-awake-041019

Android zero-day used in the wild
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1942

Show HN: JavaScript broughlike tutorial
https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/

Why do brands like Coca-Cola need to spend billions on advertising? (2014)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/1rf6pk/comment/cdmnpfa

Social Media Could Make It Impossible to Grow Up
https://www.wired.com/story/excerpt-end-of-forgetting-kate-eichhorn/

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Developer (Toronto, Canada)
https://www.workable.com/j/063AAF8DD9

Amazon Workers Walked Out over Warehouse Working Conditions
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7qny/60-amazon-workers-walked-out-over-warehouse-working-conditions

Misery of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would be global
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/misery-of-a-nuclear-war-between-india-and-pakistan-would-be-global/

Improving V8 Regular Expressions
https://v8.dev/blog/regexp-tier-up

Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/

Would You Survive a Merger with AI?
http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/you-wont-survive-a-merger-with-ai

Why can I log in to my Facebook account with a misspelled email/password?
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/214814/why-can-i-log-in-to-my-facebook-account-with-a-misspelled-email-password

Cable Company Fees Add $450 to Typical Annual Bill
https://www.consumerreports.org/fees-billing/cable-company-fees-add-to-tv-bill/

DigitalOCean Block Storage Issues Across All Regions Postmortem
http://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/g76kgjxqrzxs?

How to never be surprised by your AWS bill again
https://blog.zenmetrics.io/never-worry-aws-cost

The Bitcoin Machine: 21 Levers that move it’s price
https://medium.com/portal-finance/the-21-levers-moving-bitcoin-price-part-i-329bfa97c9dd

Hiding from /usr/bin/cat
https://ura.d3npa.dev/posts/hiding-from-cats.md

PayPal withdraws support for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/4/20899310/facebook-libra-paypal-online-currency-payment-system-cryptocurrency

In Rome, you can swap 30 plastic bottles for a subway ride
https://www.fastcompany.com/90386534/in-rome-you-can-swap-30-plastic-bottles-for-a-subway-ride

Textile Factories and True Crime
https://nursingclio.org/2019/08/08/disappointed-love-and-dangerous-temptations-textile-factories-and-true-crime/

Microsoft confirms that Surface Duo is 100% Android
https://www.cnet.com/news/surface-duo-no-microsoft-isnt-making-another-windows-phone/

EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech under civil rights law
https://www.courthousenews.com/eu-court-rules-holocaust-denial-not-protected-by-rights-law/

Facebook’s Libra project officially loses inaugural partner PayPal
https://decrypt.co/9978/facebooks-libra-project-loses-inaugural-partner-paypal

The First Video Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc

My 65 years in protein chemistry
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450725/

Entrepreneurs who sleep more are better at spotting good ideas
https://hbr.org/2019/10/entrepreneurs-who-sleep-more-are-better-at-spotting-good-ideas

Attackers exploit 0day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/attackers-exploit-0day-vulnerability-that-gives-full-control-of-android-phones

An Expensive Lesson About Office Politics
https://blog.dennissauve.com/an-expensive-lesson-about-office-politics/

The U.S. economy’s hidden problem: Men without jobs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-economys-hidden-problem-working-class-men-without-jobs/

A Broken System Helped Kill Net Neutrality. It Afflicts the Whole Government
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/net-neutrality-fcc-comments-system-broken.html

Single reaction mixture can produce all four RNA bases
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/single-reaction-mixture-can-produce-all-four-rna-bases/

All hail Luna 3, rightful king of 1950s space missions
http://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/all-hail-luna-3-rightful-king-of-1950s-space-missions/

False witness: why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/04/false-witness-us-using-hypnosis-convict-criminals

The Ideology of Censorship
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333677484_The_Ideology_of_Censorship

U.S. Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/us-customs-officer-harasses-defense-one-journalist-dulles/160380/

New York Declares Using the Term ’Illegal Alien’ Can Result in a $250k Fine
https://reason.com/2019/09/30/new-york-city-illegal-aliens-fine-free-speech

Show HN: Clean and simple declarative dotfile management
https://github.com/markrawls/punctual

Iranian Hackers Targeted Presidential Campaign, Microsoft Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/technology/iranian-campaign-hackers-microsoft.html

Microsoft says Iranian hacking group targeted a 2020 US presidential candidate
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/4/20898943/microsoft-iran-2020-presidential-candidate-hacker-phosphorous-hack

They’re Retired. They’re Insured. The Government Pays for It
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-villages-trump-visit-medicare-advantage-retired-insured-the-government-pays-for-it

Marc Benioff Says ’Facebook Is the New Cigarettes’
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/salesforce-founder-marc-benioff-says-facebook-is-new-cigarettes-heres-why-he-thinks-government-should-get-involved.html

Ukraine Holds More Surprises for Biden
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-27/ukraine-scandal-expect-more-surprises-for-biden

Laser-Pointing System Transmits Data from Tiny Satellites
https://www.aerodefensetech.com/component/content/article/adt/features/insider/35154

NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/marketing-expert-scott-galloway-on-wework-and-adam-neumann.html

Moscow’s Blockchain Election Decrypted
https://meduza.io/en/slides/technical-difficulties

Man sues Apple claiming iPhone turned him gay
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49933003

Astronomers discovered a star that went supernova not just once, but twice
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/11/zombie#.WgORj68xcPg.reddit

Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool
https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code-ml-models-ddba3357eace?source=friends_link&sk=f7774c54571148b33cde3ba6c6310086

Broke the bank: disastrous IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records
https://increment.com/testing/what-broke-the-bank

Judges reluctantly accepted claim that broadband isn’t “telecommunications.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/why-ajit-pais-unhinged-net-neutrality-repeal-was-upheld-by-judges/

Zendesk 2016 Security Incident (2019 Update)
https://www.zendesk.com/blog/security-update-2019/

Intel proposes new SAPM memory type to protect against Spectre-like attacks
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-proposes-new-sapm-memory-type-to-protect-against-spectre-like-attacks/

My Worst Job Was as a Debt Collector
https://theoutline.com/post/8030/tea-salesman-debt-collection-personal-essay

Lethal memory fail: Why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-28-2019-plastic-tea-bag-particles-venus-was-habitable-driver-memory-fail-and-more-1.5298362/lethal-memory-fail-why-drivers-see-and-then-forget-motorcyclists-1.5298381

Google Search testing new UI update
https://imgur.com/nr0mVkD

Elon Musk’s Starship may be more moral catastrophe
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-elon-musk-starship-moral-catastrophe.html

Save Time and Money with Python Automation
https://medium.com/codomo/how-i-saved-120-hours-and-600-on-xero-with-python-automation-and-zapier-1407e18c9610

’Manhattan of the desert’: civil war puts Yemen’s ancient skyscrapers at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/04/manhattan-of-the-desert-civil-war-puts-yemen-ancient-skyscrapers-at-risk

I’ve Never Felt Professionally Lonelier Than I Did at a WeWork
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne84pd/ive-never-been-professionally-lonelier-than-i-was-at-a-wework

Starting and Managing a Remote-First Company
https://hackernoon.com/starting-a-remote-first-and-multicultural-first-company-gk5c5322q

The Fake Nazi Death Camp: Wikipedia’s Longest Hoax, Exposed
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-fake-nazi-death-camp-wikipedia-s-longest-hoax-exposed-1.7942233

The reasons nobody wants to be a detective any more – and what it means
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/01/inside-cid-real-reasons-nobody-wants-detective-means-criminals/

A Modern CSS Reset
https://dev.to/hankchizljaw/a-modern-css-reset-6p3

Remote Engineering guide to 1:1 meetings
https://soapboxhq.com/blog/meetings/remote-engineering-manager-one-on-one-meetings

StackOverflow’s apology on the removal of a moderator(post not votable)
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/334248/3834

In this house, we fire union organisers
https://twitter.com/GameWorkers/status/1179652373914046465

Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/04/opinion/self-driving-cars-safety.html

Amazon Care
https://amazon.care/

PayPal Drops Out of Facebook’s Libra Payments Network
https://www.wsj.com/articles/paypal-drops-out-of-facebooks-libra-payments-network-11570218306?mod=rsswn



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