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To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191018-where-75-of-workers-are-on-the-autistic-spectrum

The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
https://www.thegrove3d.com/releases/the-grove-release-8/

South Korea’s smartphone addiction camps
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/20/asia/smartphone-addiction-camp-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

An on-going conversion of Scoopex’s Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C
https://github.com/spec-chum/Amiga-Scoopex-C

Internet Exchange Map
https://www.internetexchangemap.com/

Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli
https://github.com/RanadeepPolavarapu/docker-nginx-http3

DNS over HTTPS–What Is It and Why Do People Care? [pdf]
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11182

Python at Scale: Strict Modules
https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-modules-c0bb9245c834

Australia Newspapers Redact Front Pages in Media-Freedom Protest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-20/australia-newspapers-redact-front-pages-in-media-freedom-protest

Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks
https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex

Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?
https://twitter.com/TheRealDoctorT/status/1171831596724477952

FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices
https://twitter.com/cglyer/status/1182413194360508419

The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source (2015)
http://blog.fogus.me/2015/11/04/the-100101-method-my-approach-to-open-source/

Planetary ’autopsies’ indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planets/planetary-autopsies-indicate-worlds-like-earth-common-in-the-cosmos-idUSKBN1WW2M7

Video Architecture Search
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/video-architecture-search.html

Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks
https://www.cake.co/conversations/L44Nh7h/my-cautionary-tale-of-photographing-the-world-s-biggest-waves-at-mavericks

Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/presentations/2019-03-git-internals-rewrite/#/

The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’ (2018)
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/

The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2019/10/big-interception-flaw-us-uk-cloud-act-agreement

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

John Chambers and a star team of ex-Cisco engineers launched Pensando Systems
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-chambers-pensando-systems-cisco-stars-amazon-2019-10

Ode to skimming: On reading and our attention spans
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/hildyard-ode-to-skimming/

Lessons from the first fully automated hotel
https://www.designbuild-network.com/features/rage-against-the-machine-lessons-from-the-worlds-first-robot-hotel/

Sampling and Measuring Generators: Tutorial
http://www.possibilityspace.org/tutorial-sampling/

A historian’s critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/managing-our-darkest-hatreds/

38 People are looking at this post right now
https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201

F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification
https://github.com/mrLSD/riscv-fs

Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM
https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/22338.html

Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping
https://srlabs.de/bites/smart-spies/

From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job
https://thehustle.co/how-one-man-went-from-a-life-prison-sentence-to-a-100k-engineering-job/

The FBI Lost Our Son
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-lost-our-son-11570806358?mod=rsswn

Using a Raspberry Pi and LED to send morse code to a smartphone
https://dmtechtalk.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/doing-what-you-love-doing/

Why the Novel Matters
https://www.newstatesman.com/%E2%80%8Beimear-mcbride-goldsmiths-lecture-why-the-novel-matters

Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA
https://www.thanassis.space/myowncpu.html

Show HN: Opal implementation of a simple server with Express and Socket.io
https://github.com/sebyx07/opal-express-socketio

A phonetic writing system based on cellular automata (2011)
http://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2011/06/phonetic-writing-system-based-on.html

Stable Memory with Unstable Synapses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12306-2

The 19th-Century French Frenzy for Species Swapping
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/french-acclimatization-chart

Shining some light on the history of OS/2, Win9x and NT
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/67492.html

A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (1921) [pdf]
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/4849/N0009.pdf;jsessionid=55D6453968F5461B1B6BFF8D53C81F16?sequence=1

Topology: The Slum of Combinatorics
http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion1.html

Attempting to Use GNU Guix
https://zge.us.to/guix.html

Yes, Estimate Software Projects
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/yes-you-should-estimate/

Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/are-we-cusp-next-dot-com-bubble/600232/

OpenAI’s blog post about "solving the Rubik’s cube" and what they actually did
https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1185679169360809984

Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/tech/

Don’t Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/

Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner
http://www.ghat-art.org.uk/mark-1-the-worlds-first-whole-body-mri-scanner/

Research continues to show health benefits of coffee, tea, and chocolate
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/coffee-chocolate-make-you-smarter-according-to-latest-neuroscience.html

Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company
https://www.perell.com/blog/boeing-737-max

Citizen Science Effort Seeks to Survey the Entire Great Barrier Reef
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/massive-citizen-science-effort-seeks-survey-entire-great-barrier-reef-180973367/

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plastics-pollution/

We fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout
https://www.intercom.com/blog/rapid-response-how-we-developed-an-on-call-team-at-intercom

A Dumb TV for Consumers
https://ironcast.tv/

Understanding extinction – humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-19-2019-understanding-the-anthropocene-extinction-regenerating-cartilage-and-more-1.5324707/understanding-extinction-humanity-has-destroyed-half-the-life-on-earth-1.5324721

Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing Library for JavaScript/Node.js
https://github.com/fuzzitdev/jsfuzz

Client-side web programming in Haskell: A retrospective
https://chrisdone.com/posts/clientside-programming-haskell/

Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/20/facebook-isnt-free-speech-its-algorithmic-amplification-optimized-for-outrage/

Scientists ’may have crossed ethical line’ in growing human brains
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/21/scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains

AOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letter
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-democrats-blizzard-apple-china-hong-kong-app-censorship

St James and the Two Faces of Spain
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/st-james-and-two-faces-spain

The link between middle-wage jobs, wage inequality, and worker welfare
https://voxeu.org/article/link-between-declining-middle-wage-jobs-rising-wage-inequality-and-worker-welfare

Empathy and subjective experience in programming languages
https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/10/19/empathy-and-subjective-experience-in-programming-languages/

A Forty Year Career
https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

The Elm Architecture (TEA) animation
https://medium.com/@l.mugnaini/the-elm-architecture-tea-animation-3efc555e8faf

An Interview with Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer and Former Purism CTO
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-Todoric-Interview

What should have been an IMG element became this
https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/1185604806901207045

Libre RISC-V Open-Source Effort Now Looking at POWER Instead of RISC-V
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libre-RISC-V-Eyeing-POWER

Logic Analyzer on Chips (2017)
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/17/logic-analyzer-on-chips/

Days Since a Cryptocurrency Exchange Has Lost More Than $100M
http://dayssinceacryptocurrencyexchangehaslostmorethan100million.com/

Show HN: C++ Implementation of the Paper Median Filter in Constant Time
https://github.com/Ldpe2G/ArmNeonOptimization/tree/master/ConstantTimeMedianFilter

Coffee consumption: umbrella review of meta-analyses of health outcomes (2017) [pdf]
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/359/bmj.j5024.full.pdf

Chinese censorship is no longer just a China problem
https://qz.com/1727822/chinese-censorship-affects-people-and-companies-outside-china-too/

Fire! A brief history of theater fires in New York City
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/fire

Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can’t California?
https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/10/17/taiwan-managed-to-build-high-speed-rail-why-cant-we-connecting-california-joe-mathews/4013735002/

How to prepare a technical interview (and why good programmers also fail)
https://www.rafapaez.com/2019/10/how-to-prepare-technical-interviews.html

Microsoft Asks for Actual Spying Evidence to Justify Blackballing of Huawei
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190909/10372442944/microsoft-asks-actual-spying-evidence-to-justify-blackballing-huawei.shtml

The culprit behind east Australia’s big dry
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/the-culprit-behind-east-australia-s-big-dry-20191018-p53208.html

When Introverts Act Like Extraverts (and Vice Versa)
https://www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/when-introverts-act-like-extraverts-and-vice-versa/

I Just Took the World’s First 20-Hour Flight. Here’s What It Did to Me
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-19/i-just-took-the-world-s-first-20-hour-flight-here-s-what-it-did-to-me

Famous Memos
https://sriramk.com/memos

Researchers design new material using artificial intelligence
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-material-artificial-intelligence.html

Civilization and Its Discontents [pdf]
https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FreudS-CIVILIZATION-AND-ITS-DISCONTENTS-text-final.pdf

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363/

Tiny Polyphonic FM Synthesiser
https://mitxela.com/projects/flash_synth

Topical Keyphrase Extraction with Hierarchical Semantic Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07848

Amazon is shipping expired food
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/20/amazon-is-shipping-expired-baby-formula-and-other-out-of-date-foods.html

’Everybody Is Freaking Out’: CA law aimed at Uber might harm freelance writers
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/everybody-is-freaking-freelance-writers-scramble-make-sense-new-california-law-1248195

Simple JavaScript library to write walk-through/flows
https://medium.com/@tupakulagoutham/topping-javascript-library-to-write-walk-through-ede6653179df

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language-rp

A British actor left Hollywood to fight ISIS. Now he’s a man without a country
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/10/15/british-actor-left-hollywood-fight-isis-now-hes-marooned-belize-its-quite-story/

Bertrand Russell on Why Philosophy Matters
https://philosophybreak.com/articles/bertrand-russell-why-philosophy-matters/

Intentional (Software) Qualities
https://medium.com/@elizarov/intentional-qualities-7e6a57bb87fc

Catalonia protestors use distributed network to securely organize protests
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelonia-riots-catalonia-protests-news

Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0
https://www.evilsocket.net/2019/10/19/Weaponizing-and-Gamifying-AI-for-WiFi-Hacking-Presenting-Pwnagotchi-1-0-0/

JavaScript UI component for interacting with audio waveforms
https://github.com/bbc/peaks.js

Show HN: A new simple GitOps deployment method
https://github.com/deliverybot/example-gitops

Curl Another Host (2018)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/04/05/curl-another-host/

Personal cars are disappearing from downtowns around the world
https://qz.com/1729654/personal-cars-are-disappearing-from-downtowns-around-the-world/

Digital Transformation: 3 Secrets Your Consultant Won’t Tell You
https://www.hakunamatata.in/our-resources/blog/consultant-doesnt-tell-you-about-digital-transformation/

Computer Architecture resources curated for reference
https://github.com/rajesh-s/awesome-computer-architecture/

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

Andrew Yang’s ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality
https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.html

Liquid Types vs. Floyd-Hoare Logic
https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/2019/10/20/why-types.lhs/

Has StackOverflow Become an Antipattern?
https://dev.to/codemouse92/has-stackoverflow-become-an-antipattern-3icb

Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/19/doubting-death-how-our-brains-shield-us-from-mortal-truth

Electric car battery that will take drivers 1500 miles without needing to charge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html

Electro-plasmonic nanoantenna for detection of electrophysiological signals
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaav9786

Google explains why it doesn’t support 4K video recording at 60fps on Pixels
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/20/google-explains-why-it-doesnt-support-4k-video-recording-at-60fps/

DNA Animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY

German lab where dogs bleed to death
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-video-shows-dogs-bleeding-20646017

Show HN: Climate Finder: set climate conditions and find places that match
https://nomadlist.com/climate-finder

The Chinese Threat to American Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/sunday/china-nba.html

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/

Research in Programming Languages
http://tagide.com/blog/academia/research-in-programming-languages/

Machine Translation on a Budget: OpenNMT-py on Google Colab and EC2 Spot
https://sevenminuteserver.com/post/2019-10-17-machine-translation-on-a-budget-google-colab-and-aws-spot-instances-with-opennmt-py/

Happy 15th Birthday, Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happy-birthday-ubuntu-2019

Making Maps with Noise Functions
https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

Twitter thread about why DoH is bad
https://twitter.com/jschauma/status/1184483451111727106

Buf – A new way of working with protobufs
https://buf.build/docs/introduction

What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/20/mind-uploading-brain-live-for-ever-internet-virtual-reality

As Andrew Yang Rises, Silicon Valley Questions Universal Basic Income
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/andrew-yang-injected-silicon-valleys-favorite-economic-idea

To Antarctica and Beyond
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/10/world/antarctica-and-beyond-scn/

Why Nutanix Beam Went Ahead with Apache Pulsar Instead of Apache Kafka?
https://medium.com/@yuvarajl/why-nutanix-beam-went-ahead-with-apache-pulsar-instead-of-apache-kafka-1415f592dbbb

WAV audio files are now being used to hide malicious code
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wav-audio-files-are-now-being-used-to-hide-malicious-code/

A Simple 3-Step Framework for Better Copywriting
https://medium.com/better-marketing/a-simple-3-step-framework-for-writing-better-copy-68626602a027

The China Ship: the beginning of modern globalisation
https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/3033315/china-ship-beginning-modern-globalisation/index.html

Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch 2 Years Before Deadly Crash
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771451904/boeing-pilots-detected-737-max-flight-control-glitch-two-years-before-deadly-cra



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