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CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients and countries - edu https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-secretly-bought-encryption-company-crypto-ag-spy-countries-report-2020-2 ====== ekimekim Original Washington Post article discussed here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963](https://news.y...
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ZURB Tavern - jacobwg http://zurb.com/tavern ====== pepsi By the name, I thought that this was going to be a MUD.
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Passive solar glass home: watching the sun move - kirstendirksen http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/passive-solar-glass-home-watching-sun-move/ ====== jbrun If you are keen on this, see Amory Lovins talk on buildings: Short version: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvmHJNeif24> Long Version: [http://www.youtube.com...
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Atomic Scala - blearyeyed http://www.atomicscala.com/book ====== thebluesky Glad to see Bruce Eckel involved. It's interesting to see just how many Scala books have been cranked out in the last 6-12 months or are currently in progress. ------ Toshio <p>You can download the first 25% of the book&nbsp;<strong>here</s...
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Pornhub handing out free premium subscriptions to help Italy fight coronavirus - ignaloidas https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2020/03/12/pornhub-free-italy-coronavirus/ ====== paul_milovanov Who said the civic spirit is dead? Thank you MindGeek for your service!
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Low-overhead rendering with Vulkan on Android - sam42 http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/08/low-overhead-rendering-with-vulkan.html ====== gulpahum It's great that Google Android will support Vulkan. Now, the support list seems to be: Android, Windows, SteamOS, Tizen, and many Linux distributions including ...
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We are starting WebKit modularization - robin_reala http://markmail.org/thread/fkiibwrwv3xporxx ====== dhx _> We hope this will make it much easier to develop vendor-specific features._ DRM[1]? Flash/"ActiveX 2012"[2]? We've seen a great deal of recent discussion about the harm vendor-specific CSS properties[3] an...
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The Interrobang, Symbol of WTF Culture - JamesLowell http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/07/the-interrobang-symbol-of-wtf-culture/60546/ ====== wglb Most judiciously used in discussing <http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is- cuil-theory>
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Communication blackout is forcing young entrepreneurs out of Kashmir - amrrs https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-a-land-without-internet-how-the-communication-blackout-is-forcing-young-entrepreneurs-out-of-kashmir-valley/article30219792.ece ====== amrrs For some context on Internet Shutdown: [https://news.ycombi...
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PostgreSQL Monitoring Cheatsheet - websec http://russ.garrett.co.uk/2015/10/02/postgres-monitoring-cheatsheet/ ====== dijit Reddit discussion; [https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/3nhcnh/postgres...](https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/3nhcnh/postgresql_monitoring_cheatsheet/) I actually met the aut...
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Last of the Neanderthals - robg http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-text ====== biohacker42 <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306927> ~~~ robg Cool man, thanks. Usually I'd delete the dupe, but in this case I'd rather have the unpaginated version in my personal archive.
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Four Reasons Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums - SQL2219 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-16/four-reasons-taxpayers-should-never-subsidize-stadiums ====== masonic [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832975](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832975) 600+ points
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WeWork, the company that simulates startup life, is worth more than $20 bn - urahara http://www.businessinsider.com/wework-tops-20-billion-valuation-2017-7 ====== UXCODE I am looking forward to the event in Tokyo ([https://hellotokyo.splashthat.com/](https://hellotokyo.splashthat.com/)) related to this news. Rumor is ...
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Sustainable Feedback - sklivvz1971 https://sklivvz.com/posts/sustainable-feedback ====== lrkwz Non vedo l'ora di leggere la prossima puntata :-)
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CSS Tools – Mega Collection - ayushunibrain https://github.com/abhiprojectz/CSS-Generator ====== ayushunibrain Css generator is a mega collection of awesome css tools!
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SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video] - cjnicholls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4xR7LMCGY ====== codeulike Everyone is commenting saying how mundane it has become to see the landings. Hence you might enjoy this official SpaceX Blooper reel from 2017 that shows the numerous spectacular failures that they worked throu...
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How a Quantum Satellite Network Could Produce a Secure Internet - nextstep http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/quantum-satellites ====== mtgx Except they would be even more vulnerable to government's monitoring the conversations, since they'd own those satellites. Unless we can envision a future where even a small busi...
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BNFC: language-agnostic parser generator generator - gnosis http://blog.davber.com/2006/07/06/bnfc-smart-parsing-for-dummies/ ====== gnosis BNFC project page: [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/Language- technolog...](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/Language- technology/BNFC/)
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Democracy books disappear from Hong Kong libraries - throwaway1997 https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/04/democracy-books-disappear-from-hong-kong-libraries-including-title-by-activist-joshua-wong/ ====== baylearn You created the throwaway account > 1 year ago. Must have seen everything coming.
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MicroServices as a service - mohameddev http://stackhut.com/ ====== mohameddev Looks promising to have the ability to access your code as an API, I cannot wait to test it. Check it up
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Microsoft's little-screen, big-screen interactive future - clbrook http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57572163-75/microsofts-little-screen-big-screen-interactive-future/ ====== clbrook Reminds me of Corning's day of glass videos: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38>
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The YOLOv3 Object Detection Network Is Fast - Qworg https://medium.com/@Synced/the-yolov3-object-detection-network-is-fast-fcceae0ab650 ====== Qworg Paper: [https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf](https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf) GitHub: [https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet](https://git...
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The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job - xcubic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795?single_page=true ====== eindiran Duplicate of: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120322](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120322) ------ IronWolve Go away or I will re...
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An extremely high-altitude plume seen at Mars’ morning terminator - user_235711 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14162.html ====== bsurmanski unfortunately the actual article is paywalled. In the abstract they say there are 2 theories of the plume's source: 1) CO2 or H2O ice particulat...
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Secrets of BackType's (YC S08) Data Engineers - omakase http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtypes-data-engineers.php ====== blantonl This illustrates that a staff of _three_ highly skilled innovative engineers can bring to market an innovative solution. Jeeze, these guys developed their own _datab...
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Review of e-Conomic a popular Accounting App for Small Businesses - ManuJ http://www.getapp.com/blog/e-conomic-review/ ====== iambot the reviewer obviosuly doesnt know the market then as i would say not only is FreeAgent a competitor, but it wins hands down: <http://www.freeagentcentral.com/> ~~~ blazzar And no men...
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A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014) - dnetesn http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times ====== bitcurious The explosion of Krakatoa is believed by some scholars to be the inspiration for Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream." [https://www.skyandtelescope.com/p...
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These genetically modified cyborg dragonflies could perform ‘guided pollination’ - preetish https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/these-genetically-modified-cyborg-dragonflies-could-perform-guided-pollination/ ====== LordWinstanley >>we can make enough of them fast enough to counter the disappearance of honeybees Black M...
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Wssdl – WireShark-Specific Dissector Language - Snaipe https://github.com/diacritic/wssdl ====== rwmj Interesting, but surprising they didn't look at how Erlang bit syntax works. [http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html](http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html) It's considerably ...
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Uber Picks Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as New CEO - nbmh https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/technology/dara-khosrowshahi-uber-ceo.html?mcubz=0 ====== mwnivek Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113613](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113613)
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Reputation: kind of a big deal - holman http://zachholman.com/2010/12/reputation/ ====== thesz >If you take an action — write a blog post, publish a photo, launch a website — you want your action to spread to as many people as possible. Overgeneralization, is what I see there. Actually, "avoiding success at all co...
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Toki Pona - ColinWright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona ====== anonymfus Conlang Critic is a fan of this language: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo) I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show if you like an idea of short text based video ess...
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If I'd Known What We Were Starting - relyio https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/id-known-what-we-were-starting-ray-dillinger ====== relyio Mirror: [https://pastebin.com/Wk61SMir](https://pastebin.com/Wk61SMir)
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DNC warns 2020 campaigns not to use FaceApp 'developed by Russians' - smacktoward https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/dnc-warning-faceapp/ ====== bifrost I was discussing this (faceapp) earlier today, and I really don't feel like its a big deal aside from the russaphobia it drums up. We shouldn't condemn all of th...
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Manchineel or little apple of death - pvaldes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel ====== pvaldes A proof that mother nature hates us: [https://naturespoisons.com/2014/05/27/the-manchineel-tree- pr...](https://naturespoisons.com/2014/05/27/the-manchineel-tree-proof-that- mother-nature-hates-us/)
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Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis - thomasahle https://www.newscientist.com/article/2180406 ====== ColinWright There is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many submissions: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804...
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Show HN: RikClicker - colinramsay http://www.rikclicker.com/ ====== colinramsay This was a spoof of the original CowClicker [1] used to promote a Radio 4 play called "The Last Hurrah" starring the last British comedy legend Rik Mayall. It is a fork of my original highlandcowclicker [2]. Tech is basic: \- Github pag...
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Edsger W. Dijkstra’s list of advice - arikr https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1055A.html ====== arikr via [https://www.twitter.com/nolimits/status/1039326326493073408](https://www.twitter.com/nolimits/status/1039326326493073408)
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Tesla Is Facing a Crucible - allenleein https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-16/tesla-is-facing-a-crucible ====== neonate Here's this article in a format that makes no noise: [http://archive.is/wCQls](http://archive.is/wCQls) The WSJ article it refers to is called "Tesla’s Make-Or-Break Moment Is Fast App...
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Bulletproof validation for Sass functions and mixins - Skoks http://sassmeister.com/gist/cad7bc024664d2e4e15d ====== Skoks Download - [https://github.com/SassySuit/sassy- validation](https://github.com/SassySuit/sassy-validation) Documentation - [http://sassysuit.github.io/sassy- validation](http://sassysuit.github...
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1Password and the Case of the XARA Bandit - mnem https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/10/15/1password-and-the-case-of-the-xara-bandit/ ====== manicdee Link is broken for me. Two seemingly related blog entries from Agile Bits: Discussion of the vulnerability — [https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/06/17/1password-inter- proces....
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How to Design and Persist Aggregates – Domain-Driven Design with TypeScript - stemmlerjs https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/typescript-domain-driven-design/aggregate-design-persistence/ ====== bellsandwhis Not related to the article (which is great), but I love the site design. OP should look into making this a Gatsb...
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Have an idea for an IPhone Game, Looking for other developers - dottertrotter If anyone has some experience in IPhone development and has some spare time, I have an idea for a game that takes advantage of the IPhone's unique user controls and should be fairly simple to build.<p>I am a developer, but have no experien...
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From Zero to React - lajr https://www.liamross.me/from-zero-to-react/ ====== darkruby501 Thanks, this was helpful! ------ metoprolol Does anyone have any good intro posts to redux? Something like the above parent that’s easy to read trough casually for an engineer who won’t be using redux in the workplace ~~~ acemar...
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Google Zeitgeist 2012 - sethbannon http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world ====== chrisacky Op op op op oppan. So, I was browsing through the source of the Zeitgeist pages (as you do), and I saw some pretty cool stuff. I started off by just wanting to know how the explore map was done [1] But then I saw #eas...
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Do you remember TJ Holowaychuk? - volument TJ (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tj) used to be a significant JavaScript contributor and could easily be labeled as the &quot;rockstar&quot; of the time. In 2014 he switched from Node to Go (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@tjholowaychuk&#x2F;farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e...
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Ask HN: Whats your favorite YouTube tech channels but not famous? - giis Recently came across this relatively little known channel[1]. Though it has only 6 videos and &lt;50k users, its good. Do you know such channels?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;PieterExplainsTech&#x2F;feed ====== rafzzz Je...
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Killing Off American Cows to Keep Milk Prices High - walterbell http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/cow-killing-and-price-fixing-in-your-supermarket-dairy-aisle ====== PavlovsCat Ah, the the alienated joys of capitalism.. and the bloody stumps we call hands and minds.
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Are you misusing Alexa numbers? (Probably) - andrew_null http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2006/11/are_you_misusin.html ====== Tichy I thought the advertising companies would just track how many ads are being downloaded from their servers? Also I don't understand how the comScore approach is better than ...
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Show HN: Page of HN links - kgermino http://hnlists.pen.io/ ====== kgermino I wrote this up after the earlier discussion at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496527> It's nothing fancy, but I figure it might be a nice reference. Let me know if there is any pages/links you want added.
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API to Generate fictitious customer names, addresses, birthdates, etc. - SQL2219 https://anonymize.strd.co ====== nwrk For selfhosted folks there is great faker library. [https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/](https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/)
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Ask HN: Science for the very young? - timwiseman My son is just about to turn 5 and I am looking for "science experiments" or projects we can do together to help get him interested (and give me an excuse to do some of them).<p>Any suggestions, especially on a budget? ====== zoba I think anything that "looks cool" wi...
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Reiser Prosecution Jolt: Victim's Ex-Lover Confesses to Eight Killings - brk http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/05/reiser ====== davidw Dude, that article is nearly a year old...
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Papers and Algorithms in LLVM's Source Code - chubot https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/blob/master/grep-for-papers/llvm.txt ====== chubot context and summary: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/b22tw...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/b22tw6/papers_and_algorithms_in_llv...
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Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG [video] - ccvannorman https://vimeo.com/34949864 ====== dang Url changed from [http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/this-is- what-h...](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/this-is-what-happens- when-you-do-a-blank-google-image-search), which points to ...
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Startup that planned to deliver babies in space [is] suspending operations - exolymph https://www.businessinsider.com/space-life-origin-suspending-operations-babies-in-space-2019-7 ====== exolymph Had to trim down the BI title quite a bit. I am, frankly, gobsmacked by the existence of this startup.
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How to Find a Co-Founder Success Story: LegCyte - dglidden http://www.cofounderslab.com/find-a-co-founder/success-story-spotlight-legcyte/ ====== skaviani I was just with LegCyte, today - love seeing tech startups in DC tapping into local problems like legislative efficiency.
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Show HN: ShouldYouBlank – Turn your followers into customers with a quiz - cmacole http://shouldyoublank.com ====== jiten_bansal Subscribed for early access. Submit your startup to [http://betapage.co](http://betapage.co)
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Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience - craftsman https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/ ====== shawn This is an excellent time to ask for a counterargument to CGP Grey's stance that immorta...
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The $1bn hostage deal that enraged Qatar’s Gulf rivals - forkLding https://www.ft.com/content/dd033082-49e9-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43 ====== kristianp Archive version: [http://archive.is/LqMos](http://archive.is/LqMos) ------ bradknowles Paywalled.
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Toptal’s Selection of Top Developer Blogs - dselmanovic http://www.toptal.com/it/toptal-s-selection-of-top-developer-blogs ====== dror_liebenthal Great article! Extremely thorough discussion of 20+ established blogs. Interested to see what opinions will come up in the comments section. ------ silicon_ooze Nice select...
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Cicada 3301 challenge: partial solutions [video] - vinchuco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJF_FoSI9o&t=25s ====== vinchuco Extensive previous discussion [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularit...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=s...
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How to set up a Raspberry Pi Web Server - JeremyMorgan http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-web-server/ ====== jgrahamc I have a Raspberry Pi attached to my home network with one of these tiny WiFi adapters ([http://www.expansys.com/edimax-wi-fi-150mbps-mini- usb-202741...](http://www...
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The 2020s will be known as the Remote Work decade - shizcakes https://twitter.com/chris_herd/status/1212412869251350529 ====== teddyuk Hope so
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StackOverflow bans one of its top contributors over frivolous matter - Envec83 https://plus.google.com/+BaukeScholtz/posts/GRjfSAXYw9t ====== fsk I contributed to StackOverflow a little when it first got started, got frustrated by the heavy-handed censorship (too aggressive about closing question), and then gave up ...
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Ask HN: Where best to sell an established website? - dawson Does anyone have advice/recommendation for where best to sell an established website?<p>The site was once mentioned/interviewed on The BBC, CNN, CNET, TheRegister, Forbes, Silicon etc and was receiving large numbers of unique visitors, now not so much thoug...
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SourceWeb: A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator - vmorgulis http://rprichard.github.io/sourceweb/ ====== guruz There's a similar tool here which is running inside the web browser: [http://code.woboq.org/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST/ASTContex...](http://code.woboq.org/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST/ASTContext.h.htm...
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Evaluating potential co-founders? Try going camping. - jesselamb http://notmylawyer.com/post/745869535/evaluating-potential-co-founders-try-going-camping ====== hnote Vladimir Vysotsky, Song about a friend <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0YzyUEhbo> Original version, without subtitles <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Connect Watch: first AsteroidsOS powered smartwatch - PascalW http://connect-watch.com/en/ ====== PascalW Very excited to see AsteroidsOS getting it's first hardware product. Hopefully this will stir AsteroidsOS adoption in general. I like having an open source, free smartwatch OS as alternative to Wear.
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EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US - de_Selby http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/eu-dropped-plans-for-safer-pesticides-because-of-ttip-and-pressure-from-us/ ====== tzs See also extensive discussion from 2 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9587772](https:/...
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Funding Brooklyn Castle - maudlinmau5 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/06/funding-brooklyn-castle.html ====== Sealy I admire the VC companies that pledge towards charitable causes. Its nice to see one that actively works towards promoting these causes too.
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Your Startup’s First Hire: Leading and Learning at the Same Time - ttunguz http://tomtunguz.com/management-and-teaching ====== applecore _Anna Karenina_ is a novel by Tolstoy, not Dostoevsky :)
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Is The Web Really Just Links Or Is It Evolving? - jpro http://www.dzone.com/articles/web-really-just-links-or-it ====== dlsym No - there are awful lot of dead links, too.
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Ask HN: How did you get over your fear of shipping? - fratlas Currently building a web app and feature creep and an intense feeling that the product is worthless (I enjoy using it, but it&#x27;s niche so hard to user-test) is a daily occurrence. is this normal? ====== rgbrgb Here's an open secret that might make you f...
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Cumulus: A free, open-source replacement for CloudApp that uses your own S3 - nrj https://github.com/nrj/Cumulus ====== mykel242 Sweet!
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Booking system for makeup artists and hair stylists - xxxxtj https://www.appearancer.com/start ====== xxxxtj Welcome!
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Manchin Demands Federal Regulators Ban Bitcoin - imd23 http://www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=237cbd66-6a26-4870-9bcb-20177ae902b0 ====== ColinWright Extensive discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7307299](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7307299)
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The Accident That Changed My Priorities: One Entrepreneurs Story - johnjlocke http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229735 ====== jacalata Didn't read, too many popovers.
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An Instagram star with 2M followers couldn't sell 36 T-shirts - paulpauper https://www.businessinsider.com/instagrammer-arii-2-million-followers-cannot-sell-36-t-shirts-2019-5 ====== emsy Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20063667](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20063667) ------ derefr ...
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An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 - j_s https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2 ====== bbx For all RCT2 fans here: check out RCT Classic on iOS [1] and Android [2]. It's _fantastic_. I thought the size of the device would be an issue, but I've been playing on an iPhone SE with surprisingly great...
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Google Goggles released for iPhone - wiks http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/05/google-goggles-for-iphone/ ====== wiks Here is the direct link for it. goo.gl/aLzQ
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Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: Old, New, and Missing [pdf] - bshanks https://roxanageambasu.github.io/publications/eurosys2016posix.pdf ====== bshanks By way of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791636](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791636)
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Exceptional: Exception-Handling in C99 Using (Black?) Preprocessor Magic - qqwy https://github.com/Qqwy/c_exceptional ====== hasahmed Black magic to indeed
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TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files - bryanrasmussen https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils ====== JimmyRuska I've been noticing more swiss army-knife-like cli tools in the last few years. It would be cool if there were some that could support avro/parquet/orc formats. This one is notable becaus...
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Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016) - DiabloD3 http://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance ====== manarth Deja-vu. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303544](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303544) ~~~ manarth And in 2015 (although that sour...
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Mysterious Go Master Blitzes Competition (Master said he's AlphaGo's Aja Huang) - jrwan http://www.sixthtone.com/news/mysterious-go-master-blitzes-competition-rattles-game-community ====== jrwan The identity of Master could be Aja Huang of AlphaGo. [https://twitter.com/oth_mirai05/status/816641830234112000](https://t...
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Dropbox Can Now Automatically Sync Your Android Photos - newman314 http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/dropbox-introduces-automatic-image-upload-on-android-and-it-has-more-up-its-sleeve/ ====== tdtran Sync is a misleading term here. What the new Android Dropbox app added is an Automatic photo/video uploader, to a pre-d...
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Monodraw – Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac - robin_reala https://monodraw.helftone.com/ ====== tedmiston The support for ER diagrams etc looks pretty cool.
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A Cartoon Intro to Redux - elithrar https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb775501a6 ====== sotojuan Very nice! Redux is really great and simple but visual aids like these can help understand the data flow to someone not used to it the idea.
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The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode (Gatsby/React) - joshwcomeau https://joshwcomeau.com/gatsby/dark-mode/ ====== joshwcomeau Hey thread, author here. I don't have the energy to debunk some of these replies, but let me quickly say: 1\. The reason that this is a hard problem has nothing to do with React, or Gatsby. I...
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3D visualization of binary data - playeren https://codisec.com/veles/ ====== playeren Some sample views: [https://twitter.com/doegox/status/811934445330714624](https://twitter.com/doegox/status/811934445330714624)
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D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information Is Not a Computer Crime - sohkamyung https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-public-information-not-computer-crime ====== m-watson It is nice to see this ruling, it makes scrapings legitimacy more concrete. There was the court's rejection back in 2017 for Linke...
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Anyone got YC invite for summer batch,2017? - jayanthsugavasi ====== GlennJoe [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=krishnanvs](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=krishnanvs) got an invitation ------ GlennJoe it is now 4:48 am 18 April in Silicon Valley ------ acurti Not yet ------ ys1715 Not yet ------ bummed No...
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Space giants join forces to battle SpaceX: This is how cheap space travel begins - cryptoz http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184434-space-giants-join-forces-to-battle-spacex-this-is-how-cheap-space-travel-begins ====== Gravityloss There's no link to the original release, that's not very good journalism. [http://ww...
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IBM builds 15nm model of Matterhorn - dreemteem http://news.techworld.com/sme/3221422/ibm-builds-15nm-model-of-matterhorn/?cmpid=TD1N3&no1x1 ====== AdrianMiller If anyone's interested in more information on the science behind this story, we've set one of the original research articles that it's based on free to access...
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Khan Academy Computer Science - wave http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=36E7A2B75028A3D6 ====== jgrahamc I've really enjoyed watching the MIT 6.00 course (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6U-i4gXkLM&feature=relat...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6U-i4gXkLM&f...
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How the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Stereotype Is Killing Entrepreneurship - tryary http://www.tryary.com/news/1236/how-the-silicon-valley-entrepren ====== mfishbein Blocked by signup form
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Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines - prostoalex https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/drones-used-to-find-toy-like-butterfly-land-mines/ ====== darkpuma > _" More than a million Russian-made PFM-1 land mines—the most common > butterfly type, possibly inspired by similar U.S. weapons deployed duri...
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Can a New Website End Tech Meetup Sexism in DC? - chippy http://dcinno.streetwise.co/2016/11/09/can-a-new-website-end-tech-meetup-sexism-in-dc/ ====== chippy The moratorium on political submissions on HN has been lifted. see: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251...
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Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé - foxh0und https://www.ft.com/content/7ed1572c-2aa4-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4 ====== neonate [http://archive.is/VfEuT](http://archive.is/VfEuT) [https://outline.com/gdN45D](https://outline.com/gdN45D) ~~~ chillidoor Thank you for this. ------ sabertoothed [https:/...
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