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Pizza Hut’s First Website
https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-customers-rack-up-hefty-bills-for-moving-data?pu=hackernews7d0vdx&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
The Name of the Rose Background Ambience Generator
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customTheNameOfTheRose.php
NordVPN confirms it was hacked
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/
How to Make a Great Puzzle Game
https://thepuzzle.press/how-to-make-a-great-puzzle-game/
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)
https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-out-looking-like-a-toy/
The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
http://lab.cccb.org/en/renata-avila-the-internet-of-creation-disappeared-now-we-have-the-internet-of-surveillance-and-control/
LoCHAid – An ultra-low-cost, affordable and accessible hearing aid device
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/811828v1
Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton’s ’geek’ community
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/christine-roberts-jayden-moore-autism-inclusion-moncton-1.5316265
RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_cB-sxUusYVoCYdXnqwAg2u3-lrqBfgrUj205ytxYaw/edit?usp=drivesdk
Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10
GNOME files defense against patent troll
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/
Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
http://equalize.digital/immutable-coffee.html
Searching for the Witches’ Tower
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/358-1911/features/8075-england-pendle-witch-hunt
SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-sources.html
TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2019/tu-delft/tu-delft-researchers-design-new-material-by-using-artificial-intelligence-only/
A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/textbook-evolutionary-story-wrong/600295/
Bank of America’s CEO says it’s saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-350-million-internal-cloud-bet-striking-payoff-2019-10
Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3800247
With 186 jobs at YC startups on Work at a Startup, find the right one for you
https://www.workatastartup.com
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
http://morrick.me/archives/8599
Tiny aquatic animals secrete a compound that may help fight snail fever
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tropical-disease-parasite-snail-fever
Rio Tinto to Produce Lithium in California, Joining Electric Car Battery Race
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/rio-to-begin-lithium-output-in-california-eyes-u-s-no-1-slot
Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/21/traffic_lights_changed/
New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq
https://ahtribune.com/us/3500-depleted-uranium-impacts-on-children-in-iraq.html
Unix Turns 50 Today
https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/
CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/crispr-therapy-may-reverse-autism-mutations-effects-well-past-infancy/
63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocked-by-seven-instructions/
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
http://www.nikobell.ca/the-invented-chinese-names-of-the-2019-federal-election-ranked/
Samsung Kills ’Linux on DeX’ with Android 10 Rollout
https://www.tfir.io/samsung-decides-to-shut-down-linux-on-dex-with-android-10-rollout/
‘To Particularize the Alone Distinction of Merit’: Blake’s Visionary Imagination
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/19/to-particularize-is-the-alone-distinction-of-merit-blakes-visionary-imagination/
Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work
https://layoffs.at/
Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/mexico-attempt-save-freud-nazis/
The Internet and the Third Estate
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-internet-and-the-third-estate/
Show HN: One-click send links to your personal newsletter (Chrome extension)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/itemsy/hgldjebdmbnjjijfpdjoghabodcfohlb
Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/21/20924697/google-unionization-switzerland-zurich-syndicom-zooglers
At the End of a Dirt Road
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n20/thomas-powers/at-the-end-of-a-dirt-road
A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics (2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26tier.html
Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that’s not Linux-derived
http://phantomos.org/
EuclideDB: Machine learning feature database tight coupled with PyTorch
https://euclidesdb.readthedocs.io
Docker Hub Two-Factor Authentication
https://www.docker.com/blog/designing-docker-hub-2fa/
New words list October 2019
https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-october-2019/
35 Years at Microsoft
https://twitter.com/osterman/status/1186369914338041856
On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/europe/russia-internet-norilsk-youtube-arctic.html
Git Tricks: Avoiding merge when dealing with remote conflicts
https://goiabada.blog/git-tricks-avoiding-merge-when-dealing-with-remote-conflicts-52c175e526e6
Okavango Delta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okavango_Delta
Computer models show clear advantages in new types of wind turbines
http://eng.au.dk/en/news-and-events/news/show/artikel/translate-to-english-computermodeller-viser-klar-fordel-ved-ny-vindmoelletype-1/
DuckDuckGo’s traffic keeps growing
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019
Blawn programming language (created by 15 years old boy)
https://github.com/Naotonosato/Blawn
Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-15/lifesaving-coast-guard-scientist-reflects-on-government-service
Learn to Mock HTTP Servers with Prism and OpenApi
https://11sigma.com/blog/2019-10-11--prism-tutorial/
’Helical Engine’ Concept Could Reach 99% the Speed of Light
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190029657
Real Time Super Resolution GAN for Up-Sampling Videos
https://github.com/HasnainRaz/Fast-SRGAN
Grafana and BigQuery: Together at Last
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/grafana-and-bigquery-together-at-last
“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/
Elm 0.19.1
https://elm-lang.org/news/the-syntax-cliff
Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/17/20919539/blizzard-entertainment-world-of-warcraft-event-taiwan-hong-kong-protests
Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/20/amazon-is-shipping-expired-baby-formula-and-other-out-of-date-foods.html
Lyft No Longer Showing What Individual Passengers Pay on Trips
https://jalopnik.com/i-wonder-what-they-are-hiding-lyft-drivers-can-no-long-1839224300
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery in His Garage
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/20/uk-man-invents-aluminum-air-battery-in-his-garage/
All Plastic Could Be Recycled Into New, High-Quality Plastic with New Process
https://scitechdaily.com/all-plastic-waste-could-be-recycled-into-new-high-quality-plastic-with-advanced-new-process/
AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfer-costs-more-than-aws-says/
Show HN: Dissoc, a simple Reddit like site without voting system
http://dissoc.xyz
Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/10/21/downfall-hampshire-college-broken-business-model-american-higher-education/
Unfollowing Everybody (2018)
https://anildash.com/2018/07/13/unfollowing-everybody/
Adam Neumann will determine WeWork’s fate
https://www.axios.com/adam-neumann-wework-softbank-takeover-306243f9-95d5-40ef-b388-b06ef8d8bafd.html
The Decline of Stack Overflow
https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d
Fantasy console on a console
https://jborza.github.io/emulation/2019/10/20/fantasy-console-on-a-console.html
At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
https://www.wired.com/story/outback-steakhouse-presto-vision-surveillance/
Easy Concurrency in Python
http://pljung.de/posts/easy-concurrency-in-python/
Show HN: Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust
https://github.com/HerrmannM/eole
The voice from our Nest camera threatened to steal our baby
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/10/18/the-voice-from-our-nest-camera-threatened-to-steal-our-baby/
Show HN: Boom.fyi – a link shortening service built for IPFS
https://boom.fyi/
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/climate-change-qatar-air-conditioning-outdoors/
Show HN: ALL_CAPS => sudo all_caps (Bash)
https://github.com/MonsieurCellophane/SHOUT.sh/tree/master
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1711-4
BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzcon-2019-protest-full-steam-ahead-say-organiz/1100-6470690/
Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552
Spatio-temporal points enough to uniquely identify 95% of individuals (2013)
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01376
Fresh Pcaps, Free for the Asking
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/20/sniff/
Apple CEO Tim Cook Named Board Chairman of Tsinghua University
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/21/tim-cook-chairman-tsinghua-university-sem/
Equifax used ’admin’ as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/
Turn a Web Browser into a WebRTC Web Application Server
https://github.com/sinclairzx81/smoke
Green Tea Press: Free Books by Allen B. Downey
https://greenteapress.com/wp/
Congressional Ignorance Leaves the U.S. Vulnerable to Cyberthreats
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/congressional-ignorance-leaves-the-u-s-vulnerable-to-cyberthreats/
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air condition the outdoors
https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Facing-unbearable-heat-Qatar-has-begun-to-air-14541743.php
The internet turns 50 in a week
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/today-in-media-history-the-internet-began-with-a-crash-on-october-29-1969
Show HN: Songturtle, a web app to help you learn music by ear
https://jakewilson.github.io/songturtle/
Julian Assange extradition judge refuses request for delay
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/21/julian-assange-extradition-judge-refuses-request-for-delay-wikileaks
Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-21/saudi-aramco-s-pulled-ipo-shows-it-s-the-wework-of-energy
UK govt considering facial recognition to verify age of online users
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/18/gov_splashed_22m_on_failed_age_verification_policy/
The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
Equifax Used ’Admin’ as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/21/168232/equifax-used-admin-as-username-and-password-for-sensitive-data-lawsuit
My Advice to Junior Developers
https://dev.to/theburningmonk/my-advice-to-junior-developers-4oc2
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
http://news.mit.edu/2019/antarctic-ice-cliffs-not-contribute-sea-level-rise-1021
AT&T Hikes Online-TV Prices Up to 30% in Second Boost This Year
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-18/at-t-hikes-online-tv-prices-up-to-30-in-second-boost-this-year
Who Benefits from American AI Research in China?
https://macropolo.org/china-ai-research-resnet/
Free Software Awards 2019: Nominate those who inspire you by November 6th
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-awards-nominate-those-who-inspire-you-by-november-6th
The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614599/the-newest-gene-editor-radically-improves-on-crispr/
Ready to Pay $30k for Sharing a Photo Online? House of Reps Thinks You Are
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ready-pay-30000-sharing-photo-online-house-representatives-thinks-you-are
California Can Expect Blackouts for a Decade, Says PG&E CEO
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771486828/california-can-expect-blackouts-for-a-decade-says-pg-e-ceo
Show HN: Kill the Neural Net before it kills you
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot
The US lawyers rolling back wildlife protection one species at a time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/the-us-lawyers-rolling-back-wildlife-protection-one-species-at-a-time
Tim Cook to serve as chairman at Chinese business school amid Hong Kong outcry
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/21/20925610/tim-cook-china-univeristy-board-appointment-hong-kong-apple-ceo
SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-sources.html
Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_archlinux_embrace_systemd/d3rhxlc/
An Introduction to Pandas in Python
https://www.coriers.com/an-introduction-to-pandas-for-analytics/
The oldschool pc font list
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Facebook discloses operations by Russia and Iran to meddle in 2020 election
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/21/facebook-us-2020-elections-foreign-interference-russia
How to Use Git to Manage Your Writing Project
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-git-to-manage-your-writing-project
When do the clocks change around the world? And why?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/oct/21/spring-forward-fall-back-who-changes-the-clocks-when-and-why
Show HN: Find books that help you grow
https://www.flowreads.com/
I interviewed 15 leading developer ladies and here’s what I learned
https://townhall.hashnode.com/i-interviewed-15-leading-developer-ladies-and-heres-what-i-learned-ck1wd3uy9002l9ns1wsa3n0ko
Dinosaurs evolved different strategies to prevent their brains overheating
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-17/huge-dinosaurs-cooling-strategies/11604992
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Influential Beijing University Board
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3033899/apple-ceo-tim-cook-joins-influential-beijing-university-board
Maintainable Code and the Open-Closed Principle
https://medium.com/@severinperez/maintainable-code-and-the-open-closed-principle-b088c737262
Are Coders Worth It?
https://aeon.co/essays/dad-s-company-made-burgers-mine-just-eats-them
Linux on an 8-Bit Micro?
https://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit
The Best Ideas Are the Ones That Make the Least Sense
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331260
UK’s disused mine shafts plan to store renewable energy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/how-uks-disused-mine-shafts-plan-to-store-renewable-energy
Utility for easy management of tensorflow containers
https://github.com/pop-os/tensorman
Rich Chinese outnumber wealthy Americans for first time
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rich-chinese-outnumber-wealthy-americans-073000138.html
Boeing wants it to fly, but travelers fear the 737 MAX
https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-wants-fly-travelers-fear-737-max-065650000.html
Show HN: A rap song about tech interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sClpvvYIs2s
There are more wealthy Chinese than Americans for the first time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/investing/china-wealth-americans/index.html
Russian cyberattack unit ‘masqueraded’ as Iranian hackers, UK says
https://www.ft.com/content/b947b46a-f342-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654
Yubico security keys can now be used to log into Windows computers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/yubico-security-keys-can-now-be-used-to-log-into-windows-computers/
Trump’s ’China Muse’ Has an Imaginary Friend
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191015-navarro?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg3BNpV0dUW8oz4uPCYaaJHO3I3RVhzs_l4nI4k1KBr7xdzJFUjVCUmhtT2ZXTk9odmZORFdDaEh2VzJhV1ZVcjVGMUI2TEI4cXVIOA
Gamers are scrutinizing League of Legends for signs of China’s censorship
https://qz.com/1731892/gamers-spot-censorship-of-uyghur-in-league-of-legends/
Build your own dial up ISP in 2019
https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial_up_server
Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised
https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1185864801261477891
We Don’t Want to Run This Ad but Forced To
https://www.seroundtable.com/basecamp-google-ad-28161.html
Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/alexa-and-google-home-abused-to-eavesdrop-and-phish-passwords/
Pessimists Guide to 2028 (2018)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/pessimists-guide-to-2018/
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Pizza Hut’s First Website
https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-customers-rack-up-hefty-bills-for-moving-data?pu=hackernews7d0vdx&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
The Name of the Rose Background Ambience Generator
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customTheNameOfTheRose.php
NordVPN confirms it was hacked
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/
How to Make a Great Puzzle Game
https://thepuzzle.press/how-to-make-a-great-puzzle-game/
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)
https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-out-looking-like-a-toy/
The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
http://lab.cccb.org/en/renata-avila-the-internet-of-creation-disappeared-now-we-have-the-internet-of-surveillance-and-control/
LoCHAid – An ultra-low-cost, affordable and accessible hearing aid device
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/811828v1
Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton’s ’geek’ community
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/christine-roberts-jayden-moore-autism-inclusion-moncton-1.5316265
RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_cB-sxUusYVoCYdXnqwAg2u3-lrqBfgrUj205ytxYaw/edit?usp=drivesdk
Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10
GNOME files defense against patent troll
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/
Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
http://equalize.digital/immutable-coffee.html
Searching for the Witches’ Tower
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/358-1911/features/8075-england-pendle-witch-hunt
SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-sources.html
TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2019/tu-delft/tu-delft-researchers-design-new-material-by-using-artificial-intelligence-only/
A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/textbook-evolutionary-story-wrong/600295/
Bank of America’s CEO says it’s saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-350-million-internal-cloud-bet-striking-payoff-2019-10
Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3800247
With 186 jobs at YC startups on Work at a Startup, find the right one for you
https://www.workatastartup.com
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
http://morrick.me/archives/8599
Tiny aquatic animals secrete a compound that may help fight snail fever
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tropical-disease-parasite-snail-fever
Rio Tinto to Produce Lithium in California, Joining Electric Car Battery Race
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/rio-to-begin-lithium-output-in-california-eyes-u-s-no-1-slot
Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/21/traffic_lights_changed/
New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq
https://ahtribune.com/us/3500-depleted-uranium-impacts-on-children-in-iraq.html
Unix Turns 50 Today
https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/
CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/crispr-therapy-may-reverse-autism-mutations-effects-well-past-infancy/
63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocked-by-seven-instructions/
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
http://www.nikobell.ca/the-invented-chinese-names-of-the-2019-federal-election-ranked/
Samsung Kills ’Linux on DeX’ with Android 10 Rollout
https://www.tfir.io/samsung-decides-to-shut-down-linux-on-dex-with-android-10-rollout/
‘To Particularize the Alone Distinction of Merit’: Blake’s Visionary Imagination
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/19/to-particularize-is-the-alone-distinction-of-merit-blakes-visionary-imagination/
Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work
https://layoffs.at/
Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/mexico-attempt-save-freud-nazis/
The Internet and the Third Estate
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-internet-and-the-third-estate/
Show HN: One-click send links to your personal newsletter (Chrome extension)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/itemsy/hgldjebdmbnjjijfpdjoghabodcfohlb
Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/21/20924697/google-unionization-switzerland-zurich-syndicom-zooglers
At the End of a Dirt Road
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n20/thomas-powers/at-the-end-of-a-dirt-road
A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics (2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26tier.html
Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that’s not Linux-derived
http://phantomos.org/
EuclideDB: Machine learning feature database tight coupled with PyTorch
https://euclidesdb.readthedocs.io
Docker Hub Two-Factor Authentication
https://www.docker.com/blog/designing-docker-hub-2fa/
New words list October 2019
https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-october-2019/
35 Years at Microsoft
https://twitter.com/osterman/status/1186369914338041856
On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/europe/russia-internet-norilsk-youtube-arctic.html
Git Tricks: Avoiding merge when dealing with remote conflicts
https://goiabada.blog/git-tricks-avoiding-merge-when-dealing-with-remote-conflicts-52c175e526e6
Okavango Delta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okavango_Delta
Computer models show clear advantages in new types of wind turbines
http://eng.au.dk/en/news-and-events/news/show/artikel/translate-to-english-computermodeller-viser-klar-fordel-ved-ny-vindmoelletype-1/
DuckDuckGo’s traffic keeps growing
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019
Blawn programming language (created by 15 years old boy)
https://github.com/Naotonosato/Blawn
Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-15/lifesaving-coast-guard-scientist-reflects-on-government-service
Learn to Mock HTTP Servers with Prism and OpenApi
https://11sigma.com/blog/2019-10-11--prism-tutorial/
’Helical Engine’ Concept Could Reach 99% the Speed of Light
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190029657
Real Time Super Resolution GAN for Up-Sampling Videos
https://github.com/HasnainRaz/Fast-SRGAN
Grafana and BigQuery: Together at Last
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/grafana-and-bigquery-together-at-last
“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/
Elm 0.19.1
https://elm-lang.org/news/the-syntax-cliff
Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/17/20919539/blizzard-entertainment-world-of-warcraft-event-taiwan-hong-kong-protests
Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/20/amazon-is-shipping-expired-baby-formula-and-other-out-of-date-foods.html
Lyft No Longer Showing What Individual Passengers Pay on Trips
https://jalopnik.com/i-wonder-what-they-are-hiding-lyft-drivers-can-no-long-1839224300
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery in His Garage
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/20/uk-man-invents-aluminum-air-battery-in-his-garage/
All Plastic Could Be Recycled Into New, High-Quality Plastic with New Process
https://scitechdaily.com/all-plastic-waste-could-be-recycled-into-new-high-quality-plastic-with-advanced-new-process/
AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfer-costs-more-than-aws-says/
Show HN: Dissoc, a simple Reddit like site without voting system
http://dissoc.xyz
Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/10/21/downfall-hampshire-college-broken-business-model-american-higher-education/
Unfollowing Everybody (2018)
https://anildash.com/2018/07/13/unfollowing-everybody/
Adam Neumann will determine WeWork’s fate
https://www.axios.com/adam-neumann-wework-softbank-takeover-306243f9-95d5-40ef-b388-b06ef8d8bafd.html
The Decline of Stack Overflow
https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d
Fantasy console on a console
https://jborza.github.io/emulation/2019/10/20/fantasy-console-on-a-console.html
At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
https://www.wired.com/story/outback-steakhouse-presto-vision-surveillance/
Easy Concurrency in Python
http://pljung.de/posts/easy-concurrency-in-python/
Show HN: Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust
https://github.com/HerrmannM/eole
The voice from our Nest camera threatened to steal our baby
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/10/18/the-voice-from-our-nest-camera-threatened-to-steal-our-baby/
Show HN: Boom.fyi – a link shortening service built for IPFS
https://boom.fyi/
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/climate-change-qatar-air-conditioning-outdoors/
Show HN: ALL_CAPS => sudo all_caps (Bash)
https://github.com/MonsieurCellophane/SHOUT.sh/tree/master
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1711-4
BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzcon-2019-protest-full-steam-ahead-say-organiz/1100-6470690/
Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552
Spatio-temporal points enough to uniquely identify 95% of individuals (2013)
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01376
Fresh Pcaps, Free for the Asking
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/20/sniff/
Apple CEO Tim Cook Named Board Chairman of Tsinghua University
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/21/tim-cook-chairman-tsinghua-university-sem/
Equifax used ’admin’ as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/
Turn a Web Browser into a WebRTC Web Application Server
https://github.com/sinclairzx81/smoke
Green Tea Press: Free Books by Allen B. Downey
https://greenteapress.com/wp/
Congressional Ignorance Leaves the U.S. Vulnerable to Cyberthreats
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/congressional-ignorance-leaves-the-u-s-vulnerable-to-cyberthreats/
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air condition the outdoors
https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Facing-unbearable-heat-Qatar-has-begun-to-air-14541743.php
The internet turns 50 in a week
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/today-in-media-history-the-internet-began-with-a-crash-on-october-29-1969
Show HN: Songturtle, a web app to help you learn music by ear
https://jakewilson.github.io/songturtle/
Julian Assange extradition judge refuses request for delay
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/21/julian-assange-extradition-judge-refuses-request-for-delay-wikileaks
Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-21/saudi-aramco-s-pulled-ipo-shows-it-s-the-wework-of-energy
UK govt considering facial recognition to verify age of online users
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/18/gov_splashed_22m_on_failed_age_verification_policy/
The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
Equifax Used ’Admin’ as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/21/168232/equifax-used-admin-as-username-and-password-for-sensitive-data-lawsuit
My Advice to Junior Developers
https://dev.to/theburningmonk/my-advice-to-junior-developers-4oc2
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
http://news.mit.edu/2019/antarctic-ice-cliffs-not-contribute-sea-level-rise-1021
AT&T Hikes Online-TV Prices Up to 30% in Second Boost This Year
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-18/at-t-hikes-online-tv-prices-up-to-30-in-second-boost-this-year
Who Benefits from American AI Research in China?
https://macropolo.org/china-ai-research-resnet/
Free Software Awards 2019: Nominate those who inspire you by November 6th
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-awards-nominate-those-who-inspire-you-by-november-6th
The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614599/the-newest-gene-editor-radically-improves-on-crispr/
Ready to Pay $30k for Sharing a Photo Online? House of Reps Thinks You Are
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ready-pay-30000-sharing-photo-online-house-representatives-thinks-you-are
California Can Expect Blackouts for a Decade, Says PG&E CEO
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771486828/california-can-expect-blackouts-for-a-decade-says-pg-e-ceo
Show HN: Kill the Neural Net before it kills you
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot
The US lawyers rolling back wildlife protection one species at a time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/the-us-lawyers-rolling-back-wildlife-protection-one-species-at-a-time
Tim Cook to serve as chairman at Chinese business school amid Hong Kong outcry
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/21/20925610/tim-cook-china-univeristy-board-appointment-hong-kong-apple-ceo
SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-sources.html
Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_archlinux_embrace_systemd/d3rhxlc/
An Introduction to Pandas in Python
https://www.coriers.com/an-introduction-to-pandas-for-analytics/
The oldschool pc font list
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Facebook discloses operations by Russia and Iran to meddle in 2020 election
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/21/facebook-us-2020-elections-foreign-interference-russia
How to Use Git to Manage Your Writing Project
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-git-to-manage-your-writing-project
When do the clocks change around the world? And why?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/oct/21/spring-forward-fall-back-who-changes-the-clocks-when-and-why
Show HN: Find books that help you grow
https://www.flowreads.com/
I interviewed 15 leading developer ladies and here’s what I learned
https://townhall.hashnode.com/i-interviewed-15-leading-developer-ladies-and-heres-what-i-learned-ck1wd3uy9002l9ns1wsa3n0ko
Dinosaurs evolved different strategies to prevent their brains overheating
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-17/huge-dinosaurs-cooling-strategies/11604992
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Influential Beijing University Board
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3033899/apple-ceo-tim-cook-joins-influential-beijing-university-board
Maintainable Code and the Open-Closed Principle
https://medium.com/@severinperez/maintainable-code-and-the-open-closed-principle-b088c737262
Are Coders Worth It?
https://aeon.co/essays/dad-s-company-made-burgers-mine-just-eats-them
Linux on an 8-Bit Micro?
https://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit
The Best Ideas Are the Ones That Make the Least Sense
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331260
UK’s disused mine shafts plan to store renewable energy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/how-uks-disused-mine-shafts-plan-to-store-renewable-energy
Utility for easy management of tensorflow containers
https://github.com/pop-os/tensorman
Rich Chinese outnumber wealthy Americans for first time
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rich-chinese-outnumber-wealthy-americans-073000138.html
Boeing wants it to fly, but travelers fear the 737 MAX
https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-wants-fly-travelers-fear-737-max-065650000.html
Show HN: A rap song about tech interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sClpvvYIs2s
There are more wealthy Chinese than Americans for the first time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/investing/china-wealth-americans/index.html
Russian cyberattack unit ‘masqueraded’ as Iranian hackers, UK says
https://www.ft.com/content/b947b46a-f342-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654
Yubico security keys can now be used to log into Windows computers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/yubico-security-keys-can-now-be-used-to-log-into-windows-computers/
Trump’s ’China Muse’ Has an Imaginary Friend
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191015-navarro?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg3BNpV0dUW8oz4uPCYaaJHO3I3RVhzs_l4nI4k1KBr7xdzJFUjVCUmhtT2ZXTk9odmZORFdDaEh2VzJhV1ZVcjVGMUI2TEI4cXVIOA
Gamers are scrutinizing League of Legends for signs of China’s censorship
https://qz.com/1731892/gamers-spot-censorship-of-uyghur-in-league-of-legends/
Build your own dial up ISP in 2019
https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial_up_server
Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised
https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1185864801261477891
We Don’t Want to Run This Ad but Forced To
https://www.seroundtable.com/basecamp-google-ad-28161.html
Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/alexa-and-google-home-abused-to-eavesdrop-and-phish-passwords/
Pessimists Guide to 2028 (2018)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/pessimists-guide-to-2018/
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