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Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786

Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption

EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-eff-wins-access-license-plate-reader-data-study-how-law-enforcement-uses

SQL queries don’t start with SELECT
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/03/sql-queries-don-t-start-with-select/

Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-1-1-1-1-not-resolve-archive-is/135223#135223

Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple
https://openid.net/2019/09/30/apple-successfully-implements-openid-connect-with-sign-in-with-apple/

Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49907356

A Gentle Introduction to Bayes’ Theorem for Machine Learning
https://machinelearningmastery.com/bayes-theorem-for-machine-learning/

Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/net-neutrality-fcc-fake-comments-impersonation

Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor
https://crontab.guru/

Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)
http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-undecidable.html

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
https://numinous.productions/ttft/

Why should I always enable compiler warnings?
https://stackoverflow.com/q/57842756/938695

Show HN: I am a high school student and I did research on 3D adversarial attacks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06062

Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/why-do-companies-with-huge-resources-still-have-terrible-moderation/

Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/facebook-now-allows-politicians-to-lie-in-paid-ads.html

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html

BRL-CAD: Open-Source Solid Modeling
http://brlcad.org/

Hotter than the sun: The mysterious solar corona
https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/solar-corona-temperature

Netflix – Evolving Regional Evacuation
https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/evolving-regional-evacuation-69e6cc1d24c6

Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax
https://github.com/nanochess/tinyasm/

New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-cars-pedestrian-safety-features-fail-in-deadliest-situations-study-finds-11570075260?mod=rsswn

Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems
https://keithp.com/blogs/picolibc/

The Case for Eliminating Fines on Overdue Library Books
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/10/public-library-late-fees-chicago-san-francisco-equity-access/599194/

Show HN: CyberWeb – Building a Web Browser from Scratch on Windows 2000 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RhW4njFimw

Pig War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

Mastodon 3.0 Released
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0

The true story of the Amazon door desk (2011)
https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_the_amazon_door-desk

Solving Num: A combinatoric math game
https://dangoldin.com/2019/09/14/solving-num-a-combinatoric-math-game/

Michel Foucault: Power and Struggle
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/michel-foucault-footnotes-to-plato/

When Dickens Met Dostoevsky (2013)
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/when-dickens-met-dostoevsky/

Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses
https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/reconfiguring-the-american-household/

Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S.
http://econdataus.com/bp_sw_us.htm

China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/china-laying-tracks-for-1000km-h-maglev-trains/

A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://skymind.ai/wiki/deep-reinforcement-learning

Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (2016)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2903468

Shenanigans in the Microkitchen
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/03/thirst/

FPGA based mobile phone: Creating a truly open and trustable mobile comm. device
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNB4ocZDXA

What Is the “Length” of a String?
https://blog.etleap.com/2019/10/03/what-is-the-length-of-a-string/

What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?
https://80000hours.org/2019/10/anonymous-advice-careers/

Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Salesforce founder Marc Benioff
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/startups-are-staying-private-way-too-long-says-salesforce-founder-marc-benioff/

Understanding HTTPS Graphically
https://howhttps.works/why-do-we-need-https/

Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression
https://scale-heaven.com/

Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-electronics-electrified-tattoos-personalized-biosensors.html

An antique audiotape was a dispatch from D-Day
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/the-antique-audiotape-was-a-mystery-then-a-researcher-got-it-to-play-it-was-a-dispatch-from-d-day-1.601363

Auto-Antonyms
http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html

What Is Good About Haskell?
https://doisinkidney.com/posts/2019-10-02-what-is-good-about-haskell.html

An Update on Plugin Security
https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates
https://www.propublica.org/article/audio-shows-hospital-kept-vegetative-patient-on-life-support-to-boost-survival-rates

Facebook blocked my personal website domain
https://twitter.com/ronaldlangeveld/status/1179925743603552256

The pain of tracking down changes in U.S. law
https://blog.plover.com/law/citations.html

New ‘infrared vision’ technique can help with cancer immunotherapy
https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2019/10/03/infrared-vision-immunotherapy/

Stack Overflow: An Update to Our Community and an Apology
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334248/an-update-to-our-community-and-an-apology

Whatever Happened to Steampunk?
https://modus.medium.com/what-ever-happened-to-steampunk-4ac936905165

Indigestion, save ends: Wendy’s releases a D&D-style tabletop RPG
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/dd-licious-wendys-now-has-a-tabletop-rpg-and-the-villain-is-frozen-beef/

A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life
http://kommunalka.colgate.edu/index.cfm

UK Government Selects OpenAPI v3
https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2019/10/02/improve-csvs-and-api-descriptions-with-these-open-standards-board-recommendations/

Nanoscribe – Think big, print nano
https://www.nanoscribe.com/en/

An Update to Our Community and an Apology
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334248/an-update-to-our-community-and-an-apology?cb=1

The History of Medicinal Lithium
https://literaryreview.co.uk/whats-in-the-7-up

Minerva: Practically exploitable side-channel leakage in ECDSA implementations
https://minerva.crocs.fi.muni.cz/

Lua 5.4.0 beta
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2019-10/msg00003.html

Amazon Plans $800M Data Center in Argentina
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/amazon-web-services-poised-to-build-a-data-center-in-argentina

No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/no-more-mixed-messages-about-https.html

Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49918889

Stockton, CA Tested Universal Basic Income. Here’s How Recipients Spent It
https://fortune.com/2019/10/03/universal-basic-income-stockton/

Envoy Proxy Performance on Kubernetes
https://www.getambassador.io/resources/envoyproxy-performance-on-k8s

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for facial recognition
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-targeted-homeless-people-for-pixel-4-facial-recognition

GNU Coreutils Gotchas
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html

U.S. hits Scotch whisky, Italian cheese, French wine with 25% tariffs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wto-aircraft-drink-food/u-s-hits-scotch-whisky-italian-cheese-french-wine-with-25-tariffs-idUSKBN1WH2G7

The Messy Consequences of the Golden State Killer Case
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/599005/

Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death
https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/less-6-hours-sleep-night-linked-increased-risk-early-death/

France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-plan

TSC Frequency for All: Better Profiling and Benchmarking
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/03/tsc-frequency-for-all-better-profiling-and-benchmarking/

Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/update-approaching-ipv4-run-out

Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications
https://hibbard.eu/node-gui/

China introduces facial-recognition step to get new mobile number
https://qz.com/1720832/china-introduces-facial-recognition-step-to-get-new-mobile-number/

Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-KCSAN-Sanitizer

Cryptocurrency Startup School
https://events.a16z.com/cryptostartupschool/

Show HN: Static Microblog Generator in Perl and Python
https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

PostgreSQL 12
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html

Introducing Threads
https://instagram-press.com/blog/2019/10/03/introducing-threads/

WeWork is planning to lay off up to 25% of its employees
https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-plans-thousands-of-job-cuts-shelving-initial-public-offering-2019-10

After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues fertility clinic
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/father-of-at-least-17-kids-sues-fertility-clinic-says-he-agreed-to-only-5/

United Kingdom Budget Visualization
https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2016

The Rosie Pattern Language
http://rosie-lang.org/about/

Parthia: Rome’s Ablest Competitor
https://www.ancient.eu/article/1445/parthia-romes-ablest-competitor/

Turning Over: Why page turners matter
https://van-us.atavist.com/turning-over

Cars and the Fourth Amendment
https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/law/a-century-of-cars-driving-the-fourth-amendment

Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise public Q&A with employees
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/3/20897932/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-live-qa-leaked-audio-elizabeth-warren-response

SoftBank reportedly provided 1 in every 10 dollars by VCS to startups in 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/softbank-provided-10-of-funds-by-vcs-to-startups-in-2019-2019-10

Driverless Tesla Model 3 Pulled over by Police for Failure to Stop
https://insideevs.com/news/374412/video-tesla-model3-smart-summon-police/

A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02934-5

Shenanigans in the Microkitchen
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/03/thirst/

You Won’t Survive a Merger with AI
http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/you-wont-survive-a-merger-with-ai

Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/open-letter-governments-us-uk-and-australia-facebook-all-out-attack-encryption

Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications
https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/hydra/

Egypt activists outraged over Twitter suspensions against anti-Sisi accounts
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/10/2/egypt-activists-complain-of-twitter-bans-after-protests

Stockton is giving people $500 a month. Here’s how they’re spending it
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article235716022.html

FBI Issues Rare Cyber Warning
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/10/03/fbi-issues-high-impact-cyber-attack-warningwhat-you-need-to-know/#5e8c6e0340af

Entrepreneurs Who Sleep More Are Better at Spotting Good Ideas
https://hbr.org/2019/10/entrepreneurs-who-sleep-more-are-better-at-spotting-good-ideas

The Streets of San Francisco
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-streets-of-san-francisco-11570143083?mod=rsswn

Show HN: Test Your Front End Skills with These JavaScript Interview Questions
https://algodaily.com/javascript-interview-questions

Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again
https://www.fastcompany.com/90412231/year-after-khashoggi-murder-investors-embrace-saudi-arabia

Building the Worlds Newest Amiga – The A500 (2/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87q-TTG48Ew

Bowel cancer screening in younger groups may do more harm than good
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218691-bowel-cancer-screening-in-younger-groups-may-do-more-harm-than-good/

Intel proposes new SAPM memory type to protect against Spectre-like attacks
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-proposes-new-sapm-memory-type-to-protect-against-spectre-like-attacks/

Partitioning Enhancements in PostgreSQL 12
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/partitioning-enhancements-in-postgresql-12/

Shoulders I Have Rubbed
https://literaryreview.co.uk/shoulders-have-i-rubbed

Why some software developers hate Agile
https://www.objectstyle.com/agile/why-developers-hate-agile

Lung Damage from Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns, Report Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/health/vaping-illnesses.html

’Goliath Is Winning’: The Biggest U.S. Banks Are Set to Automate Away 200K Jobs
https://gizmodo.com/goliath-is-winning-the-biggest-u-s-banks-are-set-to-a-1838740347

The Death of Civilised Debate
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/the-death-of-civilised-debate/

EU nations can force Facebook to remove content worldwide, court rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/eu-nations-can-force-facebook-to-remove-content-worldwide-court-rules/

Show HN: The Dribbble for digital marketers – built entirely with no-code
https://clickthrough.marketing

Visual examination of recent Apple Maps updates
https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-northeast

Image Scraping with Python
https://towardsdatascience.com/image-scraping-with-python-a96feda8af2d

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

SpaceX Starship may b more moral catastrophe than bold step in space exploration
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-elon-musk-starship-moral-catastrophe.html

Stockton residents got $500/month basic income, spent on food, clothing, bills
https://ktla.com/2019/10/03/stockton-residents-who-received-500-a-month-in-basic-income-experiment-spent-money-on-food-clothing-and-bills/

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/08/17/a-jewish-womans-appeal-of-murder-in-thirteenth-century-england/

’We live for gravity biking’: deadly sport is way of life in Medellín
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/02/we-live-for-gravity-biking-deadly-sport-is-way-of-life-in-medellin

Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/03/ocean-cleanup-device-successfully-collects-plastic-for-first-time

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s defense startup is now making attack drones
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/palmer-luckeys-defense-start-up-anduril-developing-attack-drones.html

Show HN: A.I Bitcoin price predictions in your wallet
https://getportal.co/earlyaccess

Celestia: Bugs’ Adventures in Space
https://medium.com/pvs-studio/celestia-bugs-adventures-in-space-8f432c987aac

Hong Kong government to announce new law banning masks during public assemblies
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3031399/hong-kong-government-announce-new-law-banning-masks-during

Show HN: Kines – Friendly Amazon Kinesis Stream Command Line Interface
https://github.com/dinsaw/kines

PostgreSQL 12 Released
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1976/

NASA Modeling Guru: Basic Comparison of Python, Julia, Matlab, IDL and Java
https://modelingguru.nasa.gov/docs/DOC-2783

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless for Pixel 4 facial recognition
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-targeted-homeless-people-for-pixel-4-facial-recognition

The Document Foundation Announces LibreOffice 6.3.2
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/09/26/tdf-announces-lo-6-3-2/

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10x on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/03/windows_10x_for_developers_headache_or_opportunity/

Cars are killing more people – and driverless cars won’t solve the problem
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars

Taboola and Outbrain to Merge
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3771413,00.html

There’s a suspicious pro-vaping campaign targeting Donald Trump on Twitter
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/anti-vaping-donald-trump

Show HN: Nanr – Monetize Your Content with 1 Click Nano Donations
https://nanr.io

Oh, Smedley: Was there really a fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. government?
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2624/oh-smedley/

Result of Pursuing “Ideal Task Management Tool” → Made by Myself
https://medium.com/@RepsonaHQ/result-of-pursuing-ideal-task-management-tool-made-by-myself-36a0910b84b4

Monica Cellio’s account of losing her moderator status on Stack Exchange
https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-overflow-inc-sinat-chinam-and-the-goat-for-azazel

Show HN: eBook: Coderfit – Make more money as a programmer
https://gumroad.com/l/cdrft

Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, but His Attitudes on Race and Sex Are Under Scrutiny
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766083651/gandhi-is-deeply-revered-but-his-attitudes-on-race-and-sex-are-under-scrutiny

Writing Scalable Architecture for Node.js
https://medium.com/free-code-camp/writing-scalable-architecture-for-node-js-2b58e0523d7f

Trump just said he wants Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/trump-calls-for-ukraine-china-to-investigate-the-bidens.html

Katyn Massacre (1940)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

My startup is not attracting paying customers. Should I shut it down?
https://www.puretext.us

WeWork expected to announce major layoffs
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/wework-layoffs/

Tesla’s Summon-Your-Car Feature Spurs U.S. Safety Inquiry
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/tesla-s-summon-your-car-feature-spurs-u-s-to-ask-about-safety

We’re Getting Ripped Off
https://slate.com/business/2019/09/health-insurance-us-kaiser-study.html



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