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Unfork()
https://github.com/whitequark/unfork/blob/master/README.md

Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/10/25/close-encounter-with-a-gigantic-jet/

WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/whatsapp-sues-israels-nso-for-allegedly-helping-spies-hack-phones-around-the-world-idUSKBN1X82BE

Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/juul-lawsuit-contaminated-pods

Six cars aced new pedestrian detection tests
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/six-cars-that-could-prevent-you-from-hitting-a-pedestrian/

Oberon (Operating System)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
https://qz.com/1720214/how-nokias-collapse-turned-oulu-into-an-internet-wonderland/

Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively
https://ocaml.xyz/chapter/neural.html

IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program#169990

Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language
https://www.junglecoder.com/blog/nim-early-report

Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Fwd Prediction
https://learningtopredict.github.io

CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew

Multiplayer AlphaZero
http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13012

PC Keyboard: The First Five Years
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-keyboard-the-first-five-years/

Key Change
https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/10/26113/

35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CZpFqvDQo

Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit
https://www.karma.fm/p/edveCfb/an-algorithm-for-karmas-product-market-fit

Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behaviour on GitLab.com
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164

Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories
https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6734

Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Head of Integrations
https://www.tesorio.com/careers#job-openings

Cell and Molecular Biology Animated Textbooks
https://www.smart-biology.com

Routine glucose monitoring may be unnecessary for people with Type 2 diabetes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/upshot/a-diabetes-home-test-can-be-a-waste-of-time-of-money.html

Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down
https://dkthehuman.com/slowtube

The Mail from Budapest (1993)
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol2no4/html/v02i4a11p_0001.htm

Physicists searching for dark matter using lead from the bottom of the sea
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/search-dark-matter-depends-ancient-shipwrecks/600718/

Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours
https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/26/everything-is-amazing-but-nothing-is-ours/

Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/takeaways-from-the-566m-briansclub-breach/

Recent advances in 3D content understanding
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/pushing-state-of-the-art-in-3d-content-understanding/

How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/10/20897212/what-is-untitled-goose-game-explained-nintendo-switch-pc-mac

Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/mass-cellphone-surveillance-experiment-in-spain.html

The iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera
https://blog.halide.cam/inside-the-iphone-11-camera-part-1-a-completely-new-camera-28ea5d091071

A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)
https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-tmux/

Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet
https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/

New Features in Vue 3
https://vueschool.io/articles/vuejs-tutorials/exciting-new-features-in-vue-3/

Working from Home a Guide to Successfully Working from Home as a Engineer
https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2019/successful-remote-work

How to Have Real World Impact, in Five Easy Pieces
https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/10/29/how-to-have-real-world-impact-five-easy-pieces/

New ’unremovable’ xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-unremovable-xhelper-malware-has-infected-45000-android-devices/

Rock climbing and the economics of innovation
http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=2388

Million Song Dataset
http://millionsongdataset.com/

The homeland of modern humans
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-homeland-modern-humans.html

The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/europe-not-america-home-free-market/600859/

Empty half the Earth of its humans. It’s the only way to save the planet
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/save-the-planet-half-earth-kim-stanley-robinson

’Zen curtain’ saves birds from hitting glass windows
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/the-curtain-saving-birds-from-hitting-glass-windows/11638774

What We Know The X-37B Was Up To During Its 780 Days In Space
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30699/here-what-we-know-the-shadowy-x-37b-was-up-to-during-its-record-720-days-in-space

A Not-So-Brief Thought on Zoning (2017)
https://medium.com/migration-issues/a-not-so-brief-thought-on-zoning-9b8cb1298de3

AWS isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-isnt-killing-your-business-you-just-suck-at-it/

Remove default "terraform" partner_id
https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/4747

XML is almost always misused
https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml

Uber, Lyft Unveil Ballot Initiative to Counter California Gig-Economy Law
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-lyft-unveil-ballot-initiative-to-counter-california-gig-economy-law-11572386291?mod=rsswn

Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook
https://swish.swi-prolog.org/

Circuit diagram of the MARIA Atari 7800 graphics chip found in a dumpster
https://www.retrorgb.com/atari-7800-schematics-found-in-dumpster-treasure-trove.html

We’re Incentivizing Bad Science
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/were-incentivizing-bad-science/

For the first time, workers are paying a higher tax rate than investors, owners
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/16/us-now-taxes-wages-higher-rate-than-capital-fueling-income-inequality-study-finds/

Books on Napoleon
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/napoleon-andrew-roberts/

Should I pick DigitalOcean or AWS for my next project?
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/should-i-pick-digitalocean-or-aws-for-my-next-project/

A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd-microcode-bug-destroyed-my-weekend/

Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/america-s-middle-class-is-getting-hooked-on-debt-with-100-rates

Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1007296

Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2019/10/28/evaluating-bazel-for-building-firefox-part-1/

Tesla, in SEC filing, says U.S. auto sales fell by $2B
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/29/tesla-in-sec-filing-says-u-s-auto-sales-fell-by-2-billion-but-is-it-a-big-deal/

A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (1978) [pdf]
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/IBM/370/ibm.pdf

A 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/the-worlds-largest-3d-metal-printer-is-churning-out-rockets

iPadOS Discoverability Trouble
https://mondaynote.com/ipados-discoverability-trouble-488d2d40ee1

Baghdadi Story Reveals Divided – and Broken – News Media
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/baghdadi-trump-washington-post-headline-fox-news-904945/

Russia Unveils ’Unique’ Weaponized Icebreaker as It Eyes Arctic Oil and Gas
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-arctic-ivan-papanin-icebreaker-1468057

Goodbye, Flash
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/goodbye-flash.html

Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell
https://hellveticafont.com/

On Authorship and Style (1860)
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter1.html

PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has created a new disaster
https://slate.com/business/2019/10/california-power-outage-pge-fires-new-kind-of-disaster.html

Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-29/internet-50th-anniversary-ucla-kleinrock

How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL’ed code”
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147134/how-to-force-disgruntled-worker-not-to-publicly-disclose-gpled-code

Facebook blocks false ads from protesting California gubernatorial candidate
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/tech/facebook-california-candidate-false-ads/

Amazon set to challenge loss of $10B Pentagon Jedi cloud computing contract
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/28/alphabet-earnings-q3-2019/

Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-demonstrate-direct-brain-to-brain-communication-in-humans/

Cluster SSH – Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously
https://www.putorius.net/cluster-ssh.html

Why Is React Concurrent Mode Exciting?
https://hswolff.com/blog/why-is-react-concurrent-mode-exciting/

Bank of the Underworld (2015)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/05/bank-of-the-underworld/389555/

Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and aspirin can battle major depression
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/anti-inflammatory-drugs-ibuprofen-aspirin-233000216.html

Google Announces .new Domain Availability
https://whats.new/

A deep learning framework for neuroscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0520-2

NCAA says athletes may profit from name, image and likeness
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/us/ncaa-athletes-compensation/index.html

awesome-selfhosted – Free Software network services and web applications
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Australia sues Google over alleged misuse of location data
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/29/tech/google-location-data-australia-scli-intl/index.html

War Elephants
https://acoup.blog/2019/07/26/collections-war-elephants-part-i-battle-pachyderms/

Green Bank, WV, is home to a telescope that needs electromagnetic silence
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a29589714/town-wifi-illegal/

Steam Cannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_cannon

Reinforcement Learning Library from Scratch – Deep Dive into Reinforce.jl
https://medium.com/@marksaroufim/how-to-implement-a-reinforcement-learning-library-from-scratch-a-deep-dive-into-reinforce-jl-d1ec2a239924

WeWork All Hands Transcript
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/24/20929236/wework-layoffs-adam-neumann-marcelo-claure

How I went from stay-at-home-mum to landing my first web developer job
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-stay-at-home-mum-to-landing-my-first-web-developer-job/

Sony to Shut Down PlayStation Vue
https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/10/29/sony-interactive-entertainment-to-shut-down-playstation-vue/

Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/health/crispr-genetics-antibiotic-resistance.html

Senator Vitter Becomes “Proud Member of the Hikvision Team”, Calls Out Rubio
https://ipvm.com/reports/vitter-hikvision

A man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/tech/facebook-false-ads-california-governor/index.html

Linus Torvalds: ’I’m not a programmer anymore’
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-im-not-a-programmer-anymore/

Show HN: Ribbit – Weekly written content for Reddit for your business
https://heyribbit.com/

Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/five-months-after-returning-rental-car-man-still-has-remote-control/

It Was Supposed to Be the Safest Building in the World. Then It Cracked
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a29329189/salesforce-transit-center-cracks/

The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-market-for-voting-machines-is-broken-this-company-has-thrived-in-it

Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success
https://hbr.org/2019/10/the-kind-of-creative-thinking-that-fueled-wechats-success

Avast Online Security and Avast Secure Browser Are Spying on You
https://palant.de/2019/10/28/avast-online-security-and-avast-secure-browser-are-spying-on-you/

Australians could soon be forced to scan their faces before watching porn online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7621645/Australias-Home-Affairs-wants-people-scan-FACES-watching-porn-online.html

The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America’s water to sell in plastic bottles
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles

For security on Intel processors, disable hyper-threading
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/29/running_on_intel_disable_hyper_threading_says_linux_kernel_maintainer/

New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving
https://review.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship/2019/article/startups-forget-about-technology

Collision liquified the 4th-largest astroid, turning it into a dwarf planet
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/collision-liquified-the-4th-largest-astroid-turning-it-into-a-dwarf-planet/

Chinese FPGAs sold by LCSC, has anyone tried those?
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/chinese-fpgas-sold-by-lcsc-have-anyone-tried-them/

$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-supposed-to-hurt-new-york-city-restaurants-but-both-revenue-and-employment-are-up-2019-10-28

DNS Encryption Explained
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-encryption-explained/

JavaScript Is C
https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2018/javascript-is-c.html

Teens are spending nearly half their waking hours on screens
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-scary-lasting-effects-of-too-much-screen-time-on-children-2019-04-10

Eagles fly to Iran, rack up roaming charges
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/eagles-fly-to-iran-rack-up-huge-roaming-charges/

Hong Kong to ban diesel and gas cars in 20 years
https://www.inkstonenews.com/health/hong-kong-ban-diesel-and-gas-cars-20-years/article/3035315

Italian soccer stars banned for blasphemy
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/29/football/italy-soccer-blasphemy-magnanelli-scozzarella-spt-intl/index.html

I Love Python
https://opensource.com/article/19/10/why-love-python

The Adults in the Room
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

Is Facebook censoring conservatives or is moderating just too hard?
https://www.cnet.com/features/is-facebook-censoring-conservatives-or-is-moderating-just-too-hard/

After a Terrible 2019, Blizzard Is Going All-In at BlizzCon
https://kotaku.com/after-a-terrible-2019-blizzard-is-going-all-in-at-bliz-1839425018

Data Ownership and the Semantic Web: Interview with Professor Ruben Verborgh
https://tapmydata.com/data-ownership-and-the-semantic-web-interview-with-professor-ruben-verborgh-part-2/

Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/29/why-whatsapp-is-pushing-back-nso-group-hacking/

FCC plans Huawei/ZTE ban, may require ripping out existing network gear
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/fcc-will-ban-huawei-and-zte-equipment-in-us-funded-telecom-projects/

Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/shopify-loss-widens-on-increased-spending-sending-shares-lower

The Toxic Bubble of Technical Debt Threatening America
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/california-fires-and-pge-toxic-debt/600979/

Nearly All Counter-Strike 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

Deadspin pivots to non-sports coverage as owners demand shift to sports
https://twitter.com/AndyBCampbell/status/1189215243454636032

Best Practices for Data Modeling
https://www.stitchdata.com/blog/best-practices-for-data-modeling/

Are platforms like WeChat the future of Internet?
https://medium.com/@nitishagar/are-platforms-like-wechat-the-future-of-internet-cb57f7bd3f75

Narcissists ’Horrible People but Happy’
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50184281

Bosses face manslaughter charges for suicides under new workplace laws
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/bosses-face-manslaughter-charges-for-suicides-under-new-workplace-laws-20191029-p5359m.html

Air Pods pro website loads 1500 jpgs, 70 megs
https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1189191623491473413

Penniless hero of ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/28/give-this-guy-a-grant.html

Lab Worker Accidentally Infects Herself with Virus Related to Smallpox
https://www.sciencealert.com/lab-worker-accidentally-infected-herself-with-a-virus-similar-to-smallpox

On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival
https://avdi.codes/on-gatekeeping-complicity-and-arrival/

Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in politcal ads
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/facebook-employees-vs-ad-lies/

Building code editor plugins – A comparison
https://medium.com/cacher-app/building-code-editor-plugins-a-comparison-83b5c21657fe

How San Francisco’s $2.2B Salesforce Transit Center Is Cracking
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a29329189/salesforce-transit-center-cracks/

Netflix Plan to Test Varying Play Speeds Meets Filmmaker Backlash
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-plan-test-varying-play-speeds-meets-filmmaker-backlash-1250533

Notepad++ v7.8.1: Free Uyghur
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/

The Tech Bubble of 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZB_FfhiOKY



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