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Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
https://www.feastgenius.com/

Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy
https://github.com/idealo/imagededup

Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
https://blog.stephsmith.io/learning-to-write-with-confidence/

Building a constraint programming solver in Julia
http://opensourc.es/blog/constraint-solver-1

Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users
https://in.reuters.com/article/uber-copter/uber-makes-jfk-airport-helicopter-taxis-available-to-all-users-idINKBN1WI15X

Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9pz_EmKhA

An apology to our community, and next steps
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334551/an-apology-to-our-community-and-next-steps

Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/why-new-york-city-stopped-building-subways/557567/

Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust
https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

How Bash Completion Works
https://tuzz.tech/blog/how-bash-completion-works

The Derail of Desires
http://hongchao.me/desires/

Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance
https://datto.engineering/post/causing-zfs-corruption

An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Newest Flight Simulator
http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

Monty Python at 50
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/04/monty-python-at-50-a-half-century-of-silly-walks-edible-props-and-dead-parrots

Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI, and its source code (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvbAm0y8YQ

Labor Days (2016)
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/61/wood.php

Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
https://bitwarden.com/

A fast alternative to the modulo reduction
https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-modulo-reduction/

The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a PM for Search and Discovery
https://www.themuse.com/jobs/themuse/product-manager-search-discovery

Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.
https://dearstackexchange.com/

How UMAP Works
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-exactly-umap-works-13e3040e1668

Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/carriers/telecom-lobbyists-remove-canada-wireless-report/

Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer
https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/10/06/zupiter-a-web-based-modular-synthesizer/

Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals in Medieval Europe (2004)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.910.3267&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Potion Lang
http://perl11.org/potion/

Chinese farmer ’studies law for 16 years’ to defeat dumping of hazardous waste
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-farmer-wang-englin-study-law-16-years-chemicals-corporation-qinghua-group-dump-chemical-a7566911.html

How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/06/player-mindset/

macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address
https://slashdot.org/submission/10504880/macos-no-longer-allows-changing-wifi-mac-address

Engineering a Sort Function (1993) [pdf]
https://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/classes/writing/samples/bentley93engineering.pdf

I hate living in my tiny house
https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house

Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture [pdf]
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~barisk/public/morpheus.pdf

Tee-Ball
https://blog.cjeller.site/tee-ball

Mun Programming Language
https://mun-lang.org/

Flowsheets Visualizations (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Zjk_Wljt4

Thieves return hand stolen from Montreal totem pole, with an apology note
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thieves-return-hand-stolen-montreal-totem-pole-apology-note-180973275/

NYU Professor Scott Galloway Puts Tesla and Lyft in the Same Category as WeWork
https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-puts-tesla-lyft-in-same-category-as-wework-2019-10

TikTok famous: How the app is turning teenagers into celebrities
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/2/20891915/tiktok-famous-teenagers-haley-sharpe-yodeling-karen

A simple file encryption tool and format
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yHom20CrsuX8KQJXBBw04s80Unjv8zCg_A7sPAX_9Y/preview

Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11724-6

Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839321500158X

The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-anne-hildago-green-city-climate-change.html

The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1881/03/the-story-of-a-great-monopoly/306019/

LastPass Extension slows Chrome’s responsiveness by up to 50%
https://twitter.com/_pastelsky/status/1180864405648502784

Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/03/the-netherlands-surpasses-wildest-predictions-for-tesla-model-3-sales/

The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
https://medium.com/@lewgus/the-untold-story-about-the-founding-of-google-maps-e4a5430aec92

API design: Which version of versioning is right for you?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/api-design-which-version-of-versioning-is-right-for-you

Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline
https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fiasco-timeline.html

High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won’t reform itself
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-economy-and-the-planet-but-it-wont-reform-itself-banking-wall-street-city-of-london

S3st: Stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal
https://www.npmjs.com/package/s3st

What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)
https://salon.thefamily.co/the-google-seo-bible-everything-a-startup-needs-to-know-a60dbac2d060

A Beginner’s Guide to Chart.js
https://www.stanleyulili.com/javascript/beginner-guide-to-chartjs/

World’s Best-Run Pension Funds Say It’s Time to Start Worrying
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/world-s-best-run-pension-funds-say-it-s-time-to-start-worrying

A German word for:“It only works when I try to show you how it does not work”?
https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/54648/what-is-the-german-word-for-it-only-works-when-i-try-to-show-you-how-it-does-n

New drug overcomes resistance in aggressive breast cancers
https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/new-evolution-busting-drug-overcomes-resistance-in-aggressive-breast-cancers

Show HN: Clockwork- Distributed, Scalable Job Scheduler
https://cynic.dev/posts/clockwork-scalable-job-scheduler/

Why are cars killing more pedestrians?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars

Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language
https://williamyaoh.com/posts/2019-10-05-you-are-already-smart-enough.html

Microsoft’s new custom Surface processors with AMD and Qualcomm: an inside look
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20888999/microsoft-surface-pro-x-laptop-3-custom-processor-qualcomm-amd-specs

When you realize document.designMode is so cool
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a9c2NLBPqmxLtM5FO1dSsKbELbX1iSvT/view

Serverless Architecture – All you need to know about caching
https://theburningmonk.com/2019/10/all-you-need-to-know-about-caching-for-serverless-applications/

Easily build unique, accessible, and lightweight Vue components
https://stegosource.com/unique-accessible-lightweight-vue-components/

Lego Upsets Fans by Taking Down Homebrew 3D Print Designs
https://torrentfreak.com/lego-upsets-fans-by-taking-down-homebrew-3d-print-designs/

Addicted to screens? That’s really a you problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/technology/phone-screen-addiction-tech-nir-eyal.html

NASA shares 3D Moon data for CG artists and creators
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/05/nasa-shares-3d-moon-data-for-cg-artists-and-creators/

Mapquest RIP
https://searchengineland.com/a-eulogy-for-mapquest-322945

Tesla ends Model 3 shipments to China as Shanghai Gigafactory production begins
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/01/tesla-ends-base-model-3-shipments-into-china-as-gigafactory-3-production-comes-online/

CGI Moon Kit
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro
https://bitcannon.net/post/huawei-matebook-x-pro-void-linux/

Wazo Platform: build carrier-grade programmable IP communication infrastructures
http://www.wazo-platform.org/blog/wazo-platform-1913

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor

An app that translates air pollution into cigarettes
https://shootismoke.github.io/

Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum startups
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02935-4

SPIDR – News aggregator
http://spidr.today

No_color: Disabling ANSI color output in various Unix commands
https://no-color.org/

An Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnwzj/how-an-augmented-reality-game-escalated-into-real-world-spy-warfare

Robots Are Catching Up to Humans in the Jobs Race
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-04/jobs-data-robots-are-catching-up-to-humans-in-workforce

Paper review: Comprehensive runtime checking in system software via watchdogs
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/10/comprehensive-and-efficient-runtime.html

Radicle: A peer-to-peer stack for code collaboration
http://radicle.xyz/

Recommended tools to Work with Big Geospatial Data
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-work-with-big-geospatial-data-4ba919a8ffc2

Show HN: Using THREEJS’s New InstancedMesh in React
https://codesandbox.io/s/three-fiber-useloader-q4d2v

Jackson-databind – remote code execution vulnerability
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00191.html

Kubernetes Liveness Probes Are Dangerous
https://srcco.de/posts/kubernetes-liveness-probes-are-dangerous.html

AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement
https://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/252471650/AWS-faces-Elasticsearch-lawsuit-for-trademark-infringement

An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have
https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/10/05/an-ant-colony-has-memories-its-individual-members-dont-have/

Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4838

The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn

The Case for a High Carbon Tax Now: Mitigating Risk
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/10/4/20896541/greta-thunberg-panic-carbon-tax-price

DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dns-over-https-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves-experts-say/

You Crashed a $3M Bugatti. Now What?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-03/so-you-crashed-a-3-million-supercar-now-what

On the Weaknesses of the Mathematical Mind
https://uneasymoney.com/2019/10/04/jack-schwartz-on-the-weaknesses-of-the-mathematical-mind/https://uneasymoney.com/2019/10/04/jack-schwartz-on-the-weaknesses-of-the-mathematical-mind/

Node.js, an Elixir Library for Calling Node.js Functions
https://revelry.co/nodejs-elixir-library/

Real-Time experiment analytics at Pinterest using Apache Flink
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/real-time-experiment-analytics-at-pinterest-using-apache-flink-841c8df98dc2

Show HN: HN Notify.xyz – Subscribe to Your HN Replies
https://hnnotify.xyz/

Coral-tracking satellites monitor reef bleaching in near-real time
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02802-2

DeepMind Builds Neural Networks That Spontaneously Replay Past Experiences
https://towardsdatascience.com/recreating-imagination-deepmind-builds-neural-networks-that-spontaneously-replay-past-experiences-9b57a9c08316

Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/04/journalist-says-cbp-officer-withheld-his-passport-until-he-agreed-he-writes-propaganda/

Getting your first 500-1000 users
https://medium.com/sideprojects/how-to-get-your-first-500-1000-users-for-your-product-project-and-or-service-for-free-41a888a08764

Dymaxion: Infrastructural Games and Societal Play (2016)
https://dymaxion.org/essays/infrastructuralgames.html

Machine Powered Refactoring with AST’s
https://changelog.com/podcast/362

Machine Learning Deployment
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/10/4/machine-learning-deployment

Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
https://www.wired.com/story/urgent-11-ipnet-vulnerable-devices/

The Undermind Episode 33 – A Podcast about Starcraft AI Development
https://makingcomputerdothings.com/undermind-episode-33/

Best Remote Jobs Websites in 2019
https://remotehub.io/blog/remote-jobs-websites

How to Implement the BYOD Concept and Not Harm Information Security
https://www.hackerfoss.com/2019/10/you-cannot-forbid-to-bring-how-to.html

CppCon 2019: Jason Turner “The Best Parts of C++”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz5Qx18H6lg

87% of Consumers Would Opt Out of Ad Targeting Under CCPA Terms
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/87-of-consumers-would-opt-out-of-ad-targeting-under-ccpa-terms/

I managed a product that sent 1B Messages
https://medium.com/@manojsurya3110/how-i-managed-a-product-that-sent-1bn-messages-8b1382cd03f2

Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/04/facebook-exempts-political-ads-ban-making-false-claims

NASA’s InSight ’Hears’ Peculiar Sounds on Mars
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-insight-hears-peculiar-sounds-on-mars

The 3.5% rule: How a small minority can change the world
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/

Start Telling More Stories at Work
https://www.capitolstandard.com/art-of-storytelling/

I Built a $3.5K/Month Authority Site with a Full Time Job
https://www.starterstory.com/build-profitable-authority-site

If Each of Us Planted a Tree, Would It Slow Global Warming?
https://www.wired.com/story/plant-a-tree-for-climate-change/

Show HN: Build Chat Application Using Libp2p in 5 Mins
https://simpleaswater.com/libp2p/tutorials/nodejs/getting_started



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