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Twitter to ban political advertising
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
Getting Started with Security Keys
https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/
Plants “panic” when it rains
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-panic.html
Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
https://www.studyfinds.org/if-you-rest-you-rust-study-finds-early-retirement-may-speed-up-cognitive-decline/
Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won’t Die
https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166
Can Computers Prove Theorems?
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/can-computers-prove-theorems/
A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers
https://www.vice.com/en_au/partners/audible-no-gangsters-in-paradise/how-a-western-sydney-gang-got-hold-of-military-grade-rocket-launchers
Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ebola-is-now-a-disease-we-can-treat-how-a-cure-emerged-from-a-war-zone-11572446873?mod=rsswn
CleanFlicks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks
Detailed Agenda for a DDD Design-Level Event Storming – Part 2
http://philippe.bourgau.net/detailed-agenda-for-a-ddd-design-level-event-storming-part-2/
Which Planet Is Closest?
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/which-planet-is-closest
Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX
https://makezine.com/2019/10/25/build-your-own-thrust-vectored-rockets-for-vertical-landings-like-spacex/
A slack bot, to automate your office using a Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/vitorverasm/slackbot-iot
Foie Gras, Served in 1k Restaurants in NYC, Is Banned
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/foie-gras-ban-nyc.html
Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30499/the-truth-is-the-military-has-been-researching-anti-gravity-for-nearly-70-years
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
https://twitter.com/MikeBeas/status/1189416778104999937
Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server
https://github.com/modern-fortran/tcp-client-server
Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor
https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195
Take Better Screenshots
http://www.stilldrinking.org/take-better-screenshots
Extreme haunted house McKamey Manor is a torture chamber, petition says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/30/an-extreme-haunted-house-requires-page-waiver-critics-say-its-torture-chamber/
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html
Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/indian-nuclear-power-company-confirms-north-korean-malware-attack/
Kierkegaard’s Leap
https://hudsonreview.com/2019/10/kierkegaards-leap/#.Xbd-55NKjR0
The Cloud and Open Source
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/09/21/AWS-Open-Source-People
I Miss the Old Internet
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html
The crisis in physics is not only about physics
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html
ProtonMail iOS app goes open source
https://protonmail.com/blog/ios-open-source/
The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-empathetic-humanities-have-much-to-teach-our-adversarial-culture
The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America
https://www.thenation.com/article/charles-postel-gilded-age-equality/
Knative = Kubernetes Networking++
https://ahmet.im/blog/knative-better-kubernetes-networking/
Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/privileged-poor-vs-doubly-disadvantaged-at-elite-schools/
Niklaus Wirth demos Lillith’s Modula-2 debugger (1980) [video]
https://video.ethz.ch/speakers/ethistory/6d3a0bbe-71ac-4293-8beb-0efbd6a54d15.html
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Sator Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square
Apple Q4 Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
Mapping the World of Amiga Samples
https://chipflip.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/mapping-the-world-of-amiga-samples/
Fast Ads Matter
https://web.dev/fast-ads-matter/
Join YC’s Work at a Startup to find your next engineering job
https://www.workatastartup.com/?utm_source=hn_jobs
Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs
http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/
DJI Mavic Mini
https://www.dji.com/mavic-mini
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resources
Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-23-GuardiaCivil.md
Feeling stuck? Write a poem
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02912-x
Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article236413328.html
Zuckerberg defends political ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/30/zuckerberg-political-ads/
When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
https://engineering.instawork.com/when-xml-beats-json-ui-layouts-53c7f1d3fdb7
Robust Interprocess Locks
https://squadrick.github.io/journal/ipc-locks.html
Show HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – Automated Causal Analytics
http://www.clearbrain.com
Visualizing Music with GANs
https://twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1188785427295195136
Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook
https://www.monitoro.xyz
Lightyear One solar car sets record for world’s most aerodynamic car
https://thedriven.io/2019/10/30/lightyear-one-solar-car-sets-record-for-worlds-most-aerodynamic-car/
State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/state-health-among-american-men-040100395.html
Let’s discuss the source for the GPLed parts of Tesla cars
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-owners/
The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/23/the-deceptive-simplicity-of-peanuts/
On Binary Search
http://unfolding-programming.net/essays/2019-10-30-on-binary-search
Happiness is hard to find in the brain (2018)
http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/why-happiness-is-hard-to-findin-the-brain
SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15036/sifive-announces-first-riscv-ooo-cpu-core-the-u8series-processor-ip
Lixil AI-Based Toilet Analyzes Shape and Size of Feces with Camera and LEDs
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/10/29/lixil-ai-based-toilet-analyzes-shape-size-of-feces-with-camera-leds/
Enlightenment-Era Ghosts and the History of Technology
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/10/enlightenment-era-ghosts-and-history-of.html
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-level-in-StarCraft-II-using-multi-agent-reinforcement-learning
Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
http://nautil.us/blog/nautilus-to-be-acquired-by-ownership-group-of-super_fans
Computing pi with bc
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/10/29/computing-pi-with-bc/
What randomisation can and cannot do
https://voxeu.org/article/what-randomisation-can-and-cannot-do-2019-nobel-prize
GitHub Student Developer Pack
https://github.blog/2019-10-30-get-over-100k-worth-of-tools-with-the-github-student-developer-pack/
Biology Is Eating the World
https://a16z.com/2019/10/28/biology-eating-world-a16z-manifesto/
Emulator Design: Cooperative Thread Serialization
https://byuu.net/design/cooperative-serialization
Google Experiments – Paper Phone
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/paper-phone
A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth
https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/
The Semantic Apocalypse (2008)
http://speculativeheresy.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/the-semantic-apocalypse/
Show HN: Pixle.cc
https://pixle.cc
Breaches at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/breaches-at-networksolutions-register-com-and-web-com/
California Is Becoming Unlivable
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/can-california-save-itself/601135/
Why open hardware needs open software
http://blog.snapeda.com/2019/10/28/an-interview-with-wayne-stambaugh-of-kicad/
Install Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi 4
https://ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi
Epstein’s injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article236809668.html
Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm
https://ffwd.medium.com/creators-think-theyve-reverse-engineered-the-p-score-youtube-s-monetization-algorithm-ce64c95a4510
Thank You, Guido
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido
Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by using volunteer moderators?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/337117/16587
Httpx: A Ruby HTTP library
https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx#httpx-a-ruby-http-library-for-tomorrow-and-beyond
Deadspin writers quit en masse over ‘stick to sports’ memo
https://nypost.com/2019/10/30/deadspin-writers-revolt-say-theyre-quitting-over-stick-to-sports-memo/
Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based recommendations
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/web-discovery.html
Diagnosing the Steel Failure in the SF Transit Center
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a29329189/salesforce-transit-center-cracks/
UK Election Tech Handbook
https://electiontechhandbook.uk/projects
Aerial Photos of the USSR’s Giant Nuclear Detection System
https://petapixel.com/2019/10/30/over-the-horizon-aerial-photos-of-the-ussrs-giant-nuclear-detection-system/
Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjw3q5/this-silicon-valley-startup-is-dedicated-to-detecting-ufos-off-the-california-cost
Writing clean code can get as repetitive as bricklaying, use a machine labourer
https://www.unitily.com
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/
The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-starship-is-a-very-big-deal/
Show HN: Mediakito – Resume for Your Website
https://mediakito.com
Cognizant, Facebook content moderator, exiting business after Verge exposé
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/30/20940956/cognizant-facebook-content-moderation-exit-business-conditions-investigation
Chinese users attack Notepad++ app after ’Free Uyghur’ release
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-users-attack-notepad-app-after-free-uyghur-release/
DuckDuckGo and Firefox as a Replacement for Google and Chrome
https://medium.com/@techbq/duckduckgo-and-firefox-as-a-replacement-for-google-and-chrome-4a6e5066a749
Amazon makes grocery delivery free for Prime members
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/business/amazon-fresh-grocery-delivery-free/index.html
You can’t see or remove non-amazon devices from your Amazon account
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dpbt3t/the_perils_of_security_and_how_i_finally_resolved/
Using Trap to Exit Shell Scripts Cleanly
https://www.putorius.net/using-trap-to-exit-bash-scripts-cleanly.html
Open 3D Scanner
https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/dncir6/automated_creation_of_photo_sets_for/
Qantas launches inspection blitz after cracks found on Boeing 737 jet
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/qantas-launches-inspection-blitz-after-cracks-found-on-boeing-737s-20191030-p535xo.html
Show HN: A SSH client and connection manager in your favorite terminal
https://github.com/cuonggt/zzh
America’s sex recession could lead to an economic depression
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/25/americas-sex-recession-could-lead-to-an-economic-depression.html
Fedora 31 is officially here
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-31/
Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro image appears online
https://www.cnet.com/news/apples-16-inch-macbook-pro-image-appears-online/
New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/
Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/deadspin-writers-quitting-g-o-media-controversy-01drf9syxbdp
’Nearly All’ CounterStrike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw7nx/nearly-all-counter-strike-microtransactions-are-being-used-for-money-laundering
DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers
https://dev.to/chrisachard/dns-record-crash-course-for-web-developers-35hn
DragonFly 5.6.2 Released
https://www.dragonflybsd.org
Surge Robots: Holiday Hiring Finds Automation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tis-the-season-for-surge-robots-as-holiday-hiring-finds-automation-11572255001?mod=rsswn
Notepad++’s GitHub: ’Free Uyghur’ release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/notepad_china_spam/
Alaska on the Elevator of Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesxTuea_Zs&feature=youtu.be&t=218
Algorithms 1 – Tim Roughgarden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRM3sc57q0c&list=PLXFMmlk03Dt7Q0xr1PIAriY5623cKiH7V
New Li-Ion Battery Design Allows Electric Vehicles to Be Charged in Ten Minutes
https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2019/10/30/new_lithium_ion_battery_design_could_allow_electric_vehicles_to_be_charged_in_ten_minutes.html
Top Fifty Most Frequent Japanese Verbs
https://learnjapanese.best/2019/10/30/top-50-most-frequent-japanese-verbs/
Sleep has a role in developing Alzheimer’s
https://qz.com/1737881/scientists-are-looking-at-sleeps-role-in-developing-alzheimers/
US Forces Untrained, Unready for Russian, Chinese Jamming
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/10/us-forces-untrained-not-ready-for-russian-jamming/
Learn and use fork(), vfork(), wait() and exec() system calls on Linux
https://www.linuxtechi.com/learn-use-fork-vfork-wait-exec-system-calls-linux/
Seattle Schools Lead Controversial Push to ’Rehumanize’ Math
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/10/11/seattle-schools-lead-controversial-push-to-rehumanize.html
Notepad++ repository is being spammed after “Free Uyghur” release
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People
https://www.wired.com/story/not-youtubes-algorithm-radicalizes-people/
How China is using QR codes
https://a16z.com/2019/10/30/the-power-of-qr-codes/
Aviation Safety and the Future of Boeing’s 737 Max
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2019/10/aviation-safety-and-the-future-of-boeing-s-737-max/dd0f5a92-0362-45e8-bab1-957d0e82f168
TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tls-post-quantum-experiment/
If You Build It, the Dutch Will Pedal (2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/europe/bicycling-utrecht-dutch-love-bikes-worlds-largest-bike-parking-garages.html
Linux Foundation Introduces a Telemetry Policy for All Projects
https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-introduces-a-telemetry-policy-for-all-projects/
If we’re serious about changing the world, we need a better kind of economics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/30/changing-world-better-economics-honest-humane
Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v7.8.1
Show HN: My HN – get recent hot Hacker News on your favorite keywords
https://hn.okphp.com
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z
Octopus Deploy – Release, deploy and operations platform for teams
https://octopus.com
Facebook agrees to pay 500k GBP fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/30/facebook-agrees-to-pay-fine-over-cambridge-analytica-scandal
Collision liquified the 4th-largest asteroid, turning it into a dwarf planet
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/collision-liquified-the-4th-largest-astroid-turning-it-into-a-dwarf-planet/
The Ransomware Superhero of Downstate Normal
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/10/28/20934591/ransomware-superhero-normal-illinois-fbi-cybercrime
The Largest Single Collection of UFO Material Is Being Cataloged
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5n4a/the-largest-single-collection-of-ufo-material-is-being-cataloged
Space is full of radiation, and why I’m not worried
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/omg-space-is-full-of-radiation-and-why-im-not-worried/
How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/how-to-perform-calendar-calculations-5617f35d3070
Show HN: An interactive visualization of Switzerland’s public transport network
https://tempusfugit.ch
’The climate doesn’t need awards’: Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/greta-thunberg-declines-award-climate-crisis
The mindfulness conspiracy
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/14/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality
Notepad++ voicing support for the Uyghurs are bombarded by Chinese nationalists
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dp3icm/notepad_after_voicing_their_support_for_the/
Arrested for expressing support for the Hong Kong democracy movement
https://old.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dp5422/dont_become_chinese_advice_from_a_chinese/
Elon Musk announces donation to tree-planting cause in tweet
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-makes-massive-donation-to-tree-planting-cause-tweet-2019-10/
How to not get scammed hiring remote freelancers on Upwork
https://jamesclift.ca/how-to-not-get-scammed-hiring-remote-freelancers-on-upwork-bfc6d215d22e
Mitsubishi pulls Blizzard sponsorship over Hong Kong protest controversy
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/29/20939214/mitsubishi-taiwan-pulls-hearthstone-sponsorship-blizzard-hong-kong-suspension
Elon Musk donates $1M to plant trees after testifying that he’s cash-poor
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/29/20939016/elon-musk-mrbeast-tree-donation-1-million-spacex-tesla-testifying-no-cash
The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all
https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/best-kept-secret-dutch-biking-dutch-hardly-bike/
Doom 93 Cheat Code Encryption
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1189249817492557826
Going from macOS to Ubuntu
https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html
Notepad++ new release “Free Uyghur” edition (v7.8.1)
https://twitter.com/notepad_plus/status/1189155537977532416
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html
Police blow up innocent man’s home. No recompense, court rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/30/police-blew-up-an-innocent-mans-house-search-an-armed-shoplifter-too-bad-court-rules/
What If Elon Musk Worked in Finance
https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-if-elon-musk-went-to-harvard-4f8433e8f456
Tesla filing shows U.S. sales tumbled 39% in third quarter
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-results/tesla-filing-shows-u-s-sales-tumbled-39-in-third-quarter-idUSKBN1X81NM
New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z
GitHub Removes Tsunami Democràtic’s APK After a Takedown Order from Spain
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/30/github-removes-tsunami-democratics-apk-after-a-takedown-order-from-spain/
It’s the End of California as We Know It
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/opinion/california-fires.html
Twitter to ban political advertising on its platform
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
Getting Started with Security Keys
https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/
GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic
https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2019-10-29/github-bloquea-tsunami-democratic-aplicacion_2305027/
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Twitter to ban political advertising
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
Getting Started with Security Keys
https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/
Plants “panic” when it rains
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-panic.html
Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
https://www.studyfinds.org/if-you-rest-you-rust-study-finds-early-retirement-may-speed-up-cognitive-decline/
Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won’t Die
https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166
Can Computers Prove Theorems?
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/can-computers-prove-theorems/
A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers
https://www.vice.com/en_au/partners/audible-no-gangsters-in-paradise/how-a-western-sydney-gang-got-hold-of-military-grade-rocket-launchers
Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ebola-is-now-a-disease-we-can-treat-how-a-cure-emerged-from-a-war-zone-11572446873?mod=rsswn
CleanFlicks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks
Detailed Agenda for a DDD Design-Level Event Storming – Part 2
http://philippe.bourgau.net/detailed-agenda-for-a-ddd-design-level-event-storming-part-2/
Which Planet Is Closest?
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/which-planet-is-closest
Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX
https://makezine.com/2019/10/25/build-your-own-thrust-vectored-rockets-for-vertical-landings-like-spacex/
A slack bot, to automate your office using a Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/vitorverasm/slackbot-iot
Foie Gras, Served in 1k Restaurants in NYC, Is Banned
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/foie-gras-ban-nyc.html
Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30499/the-truth-is-the-military-has-been-researching-anti-gravity-for-nearly-70-years
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
https://twitter.com/MikeBeas/status/1189416778104999937
Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server
https://github.com/modern-fortran/tcp-client-server
Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor
https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195
Take Better Screenshots
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Extreme haunted house McKamey Manor is a torture chamber, petition says
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The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
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Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm
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Kierkegaard’s Leap
https://hudsonreview.com/2019/10/kierkegaards-leap/#.Xbd-55NKjR0
The Cloud and Open Source
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/09/21/AWS-Open-Source-People
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http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html
The crisis in physics is not only about physics
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The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture
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The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Sator Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square
Apple Q4 Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
Mapping the World of Amiga Samples
https://chipflip.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/mapping-the-world-of-amiga-samples/
Fast Ads Matter
https://web.dev/fast-ads-matter/
Join YC’s Work at a Startup to find your next engineering job
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Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs
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DJI Mavic Mini
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Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resources
Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-23-GuardiaCivil.md
Feeling stuck? Write a poem
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Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
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Zuckerberg defends political ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue
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When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
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Robust Interprocess Locks
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Visualizing Music with GANs
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State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men
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Let’s discuss the source for the GPLed parts of Tesla cars
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The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/23/the-deceptive-simplicity-of-peanuts/
On Binary Search
http://unfolding-programming.net/essays/2019-10-30-on-binary-search
Happiness is hard to find in the brain (2018)
http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/why-happiness-is-hard-to-findin-the-brain
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Lixil AI-Based Toilet Analyzes Shape and Size of Feces with Camera and LEDs
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Enlightenment-Era Ghosts and the History of Technology
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/10/enlightenment-era-ghosts-and-history-of.html
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-level-in-StarCraft-II-using-multi-agent-reinforcement-learning
Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
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https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/10/29/computing-pi-with-bc/
What randomisation can and cannot do
https://voxeu.org/article/what-randomisation-can-and-cannot-do-2019-nobel-prize
GitHub Student Developer Pack
https://github.blog/2019-10-30-get-over-100k-worth-of-tools-with-the-github-student-developer-pack/
Biology Is Eating the World
https://a16z.com/2019/10/28/biology-eating-world-a16z-manifesto/
Emulator Design: Cooperative Thread Serialization
https://byuu.net/design/cooperative-serialization
Google Experiments – Paper Phone
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/paper-phone
A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth
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The Semantic Apocalypse (2008)
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Show HN: Pixle.cc
https://pixle.cc
Breaches at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com
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California Is Becoming Unlivable
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Why open hardware needs open software
http://blog.snapeda.com/2019/10/28/an-interview-with-wayne-stambaugh-of-kicad/
Install Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi 4
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Epstein’s injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says
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Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm
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Thank You, Guido
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Deadspin writers quit en masse over ‘stick to sports’ memo
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Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based recommendations
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Diagnosing the Steel Failure in the SF Transit Center
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UK Election Tech Handbook
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Aerial Photos of the USSR’s Giant Nuclear Detection System
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Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast
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The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
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https://mediakito.com
Cognizant, Facebook content moderator, exiting business after Verge exposé
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-users-attack-notepad-app-after-free-uyghur-release/
DuckDuckGo and Firefox as a Replacement for Google and Chrome
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Amazon makes grocery delivery free for Prime members
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Using Trap to Exit Shell Scripts Cleanly
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Open 3D Scanner
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Qantas launches inspection blitz after cracks found on Boeing 737 jet
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America’s sex recession could lead to an economic depression
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Fedora 31 is officially here
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Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro image appears online
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New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed
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Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
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’Nearly All’ CounterStrike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering
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DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers
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DragonFly 5.6.2 Released
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Surge Robots: Holiday Hiring Finds Automation
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Notepad++’s GitHub: ’Free Uyghur’ release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese
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Alaska on the Elevator of Climate Change
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Algorithms 1 – Tim Roughgarden
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New Li-Ion Battery Design Allows Electric Vehicles to Be Charged in Ten Minutes
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Top Fifty Most Frequent Japanese Verbs
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Sleep has a role in developing Alzheimer’s
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US Forces Untrained, Unready for Russian, Chinese Jamming
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Seattle Schools Lead Controversial Push to ’Rehumanize’ Math
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Notepad++ repository is being spammed after “Free Uyghur” release
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How China is using QR codes
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Aviation Safety and the Future of Boeing’s 737 Max
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TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
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If You Build It, the Dutch Will Pedal (2017)
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Linux Foundation Introduces a Telemetry Policy for All Projects
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If we’re serious about changing the world, we need a better kind of economics
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Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”
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Octopus Deploy – Release, deploy and operations platform for teams
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Facebook agrees to pay 500k GBP fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Collision liquified the 4th-largest asteroid, turning it into a dwarf planet
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The Ransomware Superhero of Downstate Normal
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The Largest Single Collection of UFO Material Is Being Cataloged
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Space is full of radiation, and why I’m not worried
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How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
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Show HN: An interactive visualization of Switzerland’s public transport network
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’The climate doesn’t need awards’: Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize
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The mindfulness conspiracy
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Notepad++ voicing support for the Uyghurs are bombarded by Chinese nationalists
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Arrested for expressing support for the Hong Kong democracy movement
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Elon Musk announces donation to tree-planting cause in tweet
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How to not get scammed hiring remote freelancers on Upwork
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Mitsubishi pulls Blizzard sponsorship over Hong Kong protest controversy
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Elon Musk donates $1M to plant trees after testifying that he’s cash-poor
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The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all
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Doom 93 Cheat Code Encryption
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Going from macOS to Ubuntu
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Notepad++ new release “Free Uyghur” edition (v7.8.1)
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Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
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Police blow up innocent man’s home. No recompense, court rules
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What If Elon Musk Worked in Finance
https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-if-elon-musk-went-to-harvard-4f8433e8f456
Tesla filing shows U.S. sales tumbled 39% in third quarter
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New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z
GitHub Removes Tsunami Democràtic’s APK After a Takedown Order from Spain
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It’s the End of California as We Know It
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Twitter to ban political advertising on its platform
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Getting Started with Security Keys
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GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic
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