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Apple: We’re not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/14/apple_china_tencent/

What’s New in Python 3.8
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html

NASA engineer’s ’helical engine’ may violate the laws of physics
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218685-nasa-engineers-helical-engine-may-violate-the-laws-of-physics/

How BugHerd came back from the brink
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/profiles/bugherd-startup-back-from-brink/

Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-10-scheduler/

Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours

Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/

Harold Bloom Has Died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html

Reversing Safeway’s private APIs to automate coupon collection
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/safeway

YC Fall Hackathon 2019
https://blog.ycombinator.com/apply-to-the-yc-fall-hackathon-2019/

America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed – Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-pistachios-from.html

The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden
https://swedesinthestates.com/the-worlds-oldest-tree-lives-in-sweden/

I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS
https://blog.inkdrop.info/i-stopped-setting-a-financial-goal-for-my-saas-a92c3db65506

Restoring the Salvator Mundi
https://airmail.news/issues/2019-10-12/a-450-million-snub

The Unix Game
https://www.unixgame.io/

How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/7/20887473/norway-norwegian-lunch-sandwich-matpakke

Watt: A runtime for executing Rust procedural macros compiled as WebAssembly
https://github.com/dtolnay/watt

Why Renaissance Paintings Aren’t as Green as They Used to Be
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/renaissance-verdigris-green-pigment

YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/dhu0tl/its_official_youtube_is_taking_down_educational/

What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters
https://www.1843magazine.com/travel/taste-the-fear/what-it-feels-like-to-swim-in-subzero-waters

Beneath the Replication Crisis
https://societyinmind.com/2019/08/13/beneath-the-replication-crisis/

Building China’s Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-chinas-comac-c919-airplane-involved-a-lot-of-hacking-report-says/

They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print
https://airmail.news/issues/2019-10-12/they-publish-the-perished

Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/stealing-sensitive-browser-data-with-the-w3c-ambient-light-sensor-api/

Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Peter Ratcliffe’s Nobel Prize Winning Study Was Rejected by Journal
https://www.news18.com/news/world/27-year-old-letter-reveals-scientist-peter-ratcliffes-nobel-prize-winning-study-was-rejected-by-journal-2344475.html

The End of Oz
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-end-of-oz-reflections-on-the-centenary-of-l-frank-baums-death/

Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27767289/dirty-little-secret-everybody-knows-about

Rapatronic Camera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera

Chartio Is Hiring an Engineering Manager in SF
https://jobs.lever.co/chartio/391b11f2-faeb-4524-91aa-15ab63527cbd?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=YCposting

Goodyear Inflatoplane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Inflatoplane

Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/14/uber-lays-off-another-350-across-eats-self-driving-and-other-departments/

Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/new-drug-pricing-data-shows-stunning-hikes-one-whopping-667-increase/

Social Networks That Failed
https://gizmodo.com/why-these-social-networks-failed-so-badly-1836996164

How to change emotions with a word: study (2018)
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21741543-science-looks-subtleties-semiotics-how-change-emotions-word

GitHub’s latest security features
https://github.com/features/security

Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult
https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-coding-bootcamp-y-combinator-cult-2019-10

Kparc/kcc: k crash course
https://github.com/kparc/kcc

Most Functional Compiler
https://www.ioccc.org/2019/lynn/hint.html

A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-11/prenup-is-latest-must-have-for-tech-startup-founders-in-love

On Lying
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/lying-language-knowledge-ethics-and-politics/

Making Memories: Memorizing Phone Numbers
http://joeltagert.blogspot.com/2014/01/making-memories-memorizing-phone-numbers.html

Scientific knowledge is drowning in a flood of research
https://massivesci.com/articles/chaos-in-the-brickyard-comic-matteo-farinella/?__s=hix5cmacsvezhbqy5kvy&utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Massive+Science+Newsletter&utm_content=Welcome+to+Massive+Science

James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6XHroNewc&t=10377

Without encryption, we will lose all privacy – Edward Snowden
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook

Indonesia’s Ancient ‘Hobbits’ May Have Evolved Quickly
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flores-island-hobbit-evolution

The Open Book Project
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions in sudo
https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html

Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html

24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012018/csp-concentrated-solar-molten-salt-storage-24-hour-renewable-energy-crescent-dunes-nevada

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts (2017)
https://www.outsideonline.com/2186526/nut-job

Warning: Apple code deleted all my reminders – I am not alone
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/10/why-your-apple-reminders-disappeared-in-ios-13/

Nobel Prize: Lithium Ion Battery Creators Led a Revolution
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-11/nobel-prize-lithium-ion-battery-creators-led-a-revolution

Point to Point in the Datacenter with Andy Bechtolsheim
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/10/to-point-in-the-datacenter-with-andy-bechtolsheim/

Show HN: Machine Learning Development on Apple Platforms
https://nicholas-arner.squarespace.com/blog/2019/10/14/machine-learning-development-on-apple-platforms

Books to read before I die
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/features/8560-72-books-to-read-before-i-die

“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723

The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/10/05/the-stockmarket-is-now-run-by-computers-algorithms-and-passive-managers

AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project
https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/opensource/aws-sponsorship-of-the-rust-project/

Airborne laser scan reveals Arran’s ancient sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49989351

Meetup.com payment changes coming soon
https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges

Neanderthalese: A Constructed Language for the 42nd Millennium BC
http://jbr.me.uk/pleisto.html#IIIII

Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-dendrites-whiskers-lithium-batteries.html

China’s New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas-new-cybersecurity-program-no-place-to-hide.html

Differences Between Dating in Sweden vs. the States
https://swedesinthestates.com/5-differences-between-dating-in-sweden-vs-the-states/

The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-09/tesla-s-autopilot-could-save-the-lives-of-millions-but-it-will-kill-some-people-first

Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html

Interactive Canvas in Jupyter Notebook
https://github.com/martinRenou/ipycanvas

Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201910140036.html

UK Renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time
https://twitter.com/drsimevans/status/1183668281695227904

Show HN: Boomla Website OS – A platform to simplify building, running websites
https://boomla.com/

Decidim – Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
https://omastadi.hel.fi/?locale=en

Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/spain-jails-leaders-of-catalan-secession-bid-for-sedition-idUSKBN1WS0RX

Economists’ models of inflation are letting them down
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/10/10/economists-models-of-inflation-are-letting-them-down

I got serious about delegating
https://www.ronenagranat.com/2019-10-14/how-i-got-serious-about-delegating.html

Show HN: ExBERT – A Visual Tool to Explore Representations in Transformer Models
http://exbert.net/

SSH Certificate Authorities Explained
https://gravitational.com/blog/ssh-certificates-explained/

Show HN: A Socialist Social Network
https://www.karma.fm/

The largest acquisitions by Big Tech companies
https://nuadox.com/post/188345493742/big-tech-acquisitions-infographic

Zcash’s Halo Breakthrough Is a Big Deal – Not Just for Cryptocurrencies
https://www.coindesk.com/zcashs-halo-breakthrough-is-a-big-deal-not-just-for-cryptocurrencies

Subscription services for plants
https://www.wired.com/story/on-demand-economy-brings-us-something-useful-nature/

Private cloud simplified – full private Dropbox
https://www.duple.io/en/?ap

Coinexchange.io is Closing Down
https://www.coinexchange.io/news/post/85/

New rules for contractors have unexpected consequences for strip clubs
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/new-rules-for-contractors-have-unexpected-consequences-for-the-citys-strip-clubs/

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s private meetings with conservative pundits
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/14/facebook-zuckerberg-conservatives-private-meetings-046663

Show HN: borgmatic – simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers
https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

I created the same app with React and Redux
https://medium.com/@sunilsandhu/i-created-the-exact-same-app-with-react-and-redux-here-are-the-differences-6d8d5fb98222

The Hunt for Asia’s El Chapo
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meth-syndicate/

Show HN: Maximize your profit with dynamic pricing
https://modernpricing.com

Professional-Managerial Chasm
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/professional-managerial-chasm/

Cool New Features in Python 3.8
https://realpython.com/python38-new-features/

Show HN: My HN – filter recent top Hacker News by your favorite topics
https://hn.okphp.com/?k=postgres,python,hiring,aws,mac

Meetup Payment Changes
https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges?mpId=9038

The collapse of Dyson’s electric car dream
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dyson-electric-car-cancelled-inside-story

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html

Harley Davidson halts electric bike production
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/14/20914314/harley-davidson-livewire-electric-motorcycle-charging-problem-production-halted

Bypass McAfee with McAfee
https://dmaasland.github.io/posts/mcafee.html

Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
https://fs.blog/2019/10/focused-diffuse-thinking/

Riot Games warn League Of Legends pros away from political issues
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/14/riot-games-warn-league-of-legends-pros-away-from-political-issues/

C for Everyone: Fundamentals
https://www.coursera.org/learn/c-for-everyone

Weekend long read suggestions 2019/40
https://www.bobek.cz/long-reads/2019-40/

Information overload in group communication
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191412

Apple of 2019 is Linux of 2000
http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html

Perl 6 is now Raku. Officially
https://slashdot.org/submission/10554004/perl6-is-now-raku-officially

Show HN: MintBox – a service to repackage goods before sending to end buyers
http://www.getmintbox.com

James Gosling on how Richard Stallman stole his Emacs source code
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhrcxw/james_gosling_on_how_richard_stallman_stole_his/

From Zero to Kubernetes in Hetzner Cloud with Terraform, Ansible and Rancher
https://vitobotta.com/2019/10/14/kubernetes-hetzner-cloud-terraform-ansible-rancher/

Learning (some) Rust in (almost) 8 hours
https://medium.com/@knidarkness/learning-rust-at-hacktoberfest-in-8-hours-7b788883c665

An extendable Go cache library that brings interesting features
https://github.com/eko/gache

Airbnb Home Screen UI Clone with React Native #4: Animate Top Tag Section
https://kriss.io/airbnb-home-screen-ui-clone-with-react-native-4-animate-top-tag-section/

Show HN: Library of 537 wireframe blocks for Sketch, Figma
https://source.forpeople.studio/

US Senators Sent Letters to Executives of Stripe, Mastercard, Visa – Libra
https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1183109812495814656

Typhoon, Cyclone or Hurricane? Different Names for the Same Storms
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/12xp-typhoon-cyclone-hurricane-difference.html

GitHub – Pytorch/Xla: Enabling PyTorch on Google TPU
https://github.com/pytorch/xla

Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/benioff-salesforce-capitalism.html

Microsoft and NIST partner to create enterprise patching guide
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-nist-partner-to-create-enterprise-patching-guide/

ABC News Broadcasts Fake Syria Bombing Video That’s from KY Military Show
https://gizmodo.com/abc-news-broadcasts-fake-syria-bombing-video-thats-actu-1839028685

Metamaterial flat lens is 100k times thinner (2016)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2091826-metamaterial-lens-is-thinner-than-the-light-it-bends-and-focuses/

JavaScript Image Compress Using HTML5 Canvas and File API Before Upload
https://www.phplift.net/javascript-image-compress-using-html5-canvas-file-api-before-upload/

Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of ’bodies smashed’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50035229

Should Airlines Remove Seatback Screens?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/sunday-strategist-should-airlines-remove-seatback-screens

Rumor: Intel to Skip 10nm for Desktop CPUs, Will Offer 7nm Desktop CPUs in 2022
https://wccftech.com/intel-skips-10nm-desktop-cpus-7nm-desktop-launch-2022/

US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/us-bombs-at-turkish-airbase-complicate-rift-over-syria-invasion

Hobbyists can plant hidden spy chips on motherboards for $200
https://www.techspot.com/news/82320-hobbyists-can-plant-hidden-spy-chips-motherboards-200.html

Algorithms Punish the Poor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor

I watched over 100 Tesla Smart Summon videos–here’s what I learned
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/i-watched-over-100-tesla-smart-summon-videos-heres-what-i-learned/

Learn Python with Microsoft or the University of Michigan
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/13168-learn-python-with-microsoft-or-the-university-of-michigan.html

Catalan separatist leaders given lengthy prison sentences
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/catalan-separatist-leaders-given-lengthy-prison-sentences

Show HN: Twinkle Notes – Make your private digital space
https://twinkle.app

Is Apple Sending Data from 1B Phones to China?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/10/14/apple-accused-of-sending-data-from-1-billion-iphones-and-ipads-to-china/

Are pets really good for us?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/13/are-pets-really-good-for-us-or-just-hairy-health-hazards

Show HN: Pychart.js – Class-Based Inclusion of Chart.js for Django and Python
https://github.com/IridiumIO/pyChart.js

Hyperproductive Development (2017)
https://blog.jessitron.com/2017/06/24/the-most-productive-circumstances-for/

TikTok explains its ban on political advertising
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/tiktok-explains-its-ban-on-political-advertising/

React: Lifting state up is killing your app
https://itnext.io/react-lifting-state-up-is-killing-your-app-3ad6f0e1213d

Apple under fire for sending browsing data to China
https://www.cultofmac.com/658758/apple-sending-browsing-data-china/

Two candidates running for Hong Kong Council assaulted campaigning on the street
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/14/two-young-candidates-running-hong-kong-district-council-assaulted-campaigning-streets



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