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Learn how to design large-scale systems
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
★ 345.3k Python – 8 years ago
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Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba
8 years ago
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Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/microsoft-facial-recognition.html
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Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-commerce-market-is-now-49-or-5-of-all-retail-spend/
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‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/find-your-passion-is-terrible-advice/564932/?single_page=true
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Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicegpu/
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Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
https://stenci.la/
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How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database
http://blog.memsql.com/nosql/
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XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables
https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/xars-a-more-efficient-open-source-system-for-self-contained-executables/
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North American vs. Japanese zoning
http://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zoning
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Dhall – A Distributed, Safe Configuration Language
https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang
★ 4.4k Dhall BSD-3-Clause– 8 years ago
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The moving sofa problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
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City street orientations around the world
http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-world/
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Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-12-russian-intelligence-officers-hacking-offenses-related-2016-election
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WebAssembly is more than the web
http://words.steveklabnik.com/webassembly-is-more-than-just-the-web
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Asmttpd: Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (2017)
https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd
★ 3.1k Assembly GPL-2.0– 8 years ago
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Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/Microsoft-Whiteboard-is-now-generally-available-for-Windows/ba-p/214574
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How to build an NPM worm
https://jamie.build/how-to-build-an-npm-worm
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Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days
https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/big-tech-apps-for-the-next-billion-underperform
54
Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/herpes-viruses-alzheimers/564887/?single_page=true
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How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/11/how-minecraft-is-helping-kids-fall-in-love-with-books
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Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy?
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/03/20/have-we-overestimated-the-effectiveness-of-psychotherapy/
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Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-see-the-company
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Coinbase Is Exploring Cardano, BAT, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f
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Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_systems_very_different_12/LegalSystemsDraft.html
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Ask HN: What are your heuristics for deciding which HN links to click on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521735
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On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing
https://themillions.com/2018/07/on-semicolons-and-the-rules.html
36
Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland
https://globalnews.ca/news/4329755/henge-crop-circle-monument-ireland-farmer-field/
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George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17561484/george-hotz-comma-ai-self-driving-car-scam-diy-kit
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Facebook Makes Moves on Instagram Users
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/facebook-is-desperate-for-instagram-s-millennials
17
Basics of Futexes
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/basics-of-futexes/
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AWS Kinesis with Lambdas: Lessons Learned
https://tech.trivago.com/2018/07/13/aws-kinesis-with-lambdas-lessons-learned/
110
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Nordic Ice Skating on Thin, Black Ice in Sweden Is an Art and a Science
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/activities/winter-sports/skating-thin-black-ice-creates-sound-nordic-spd/
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Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-hash-rate-rapidly-growing-despite-price/
105
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How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/england-vs-croatia-live-stream-bbc-iplayer-itv
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Implementing Open Source Container Security, Part 1: Runtime Security
https://sysdig.com/blog/oss-container-security-runtime/
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Designing and building a distributed data store in Go [pdf]
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/datastore/attachments/slides/2618/export/events/attachments/datastore/slides/2618/designing_distributed_datastore_in_go_timbala.pdf
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A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/12/17564360/thai-cave-rescue-boys-mission-diver-ben-reymenants
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Therapy experience is associated with negative changes in personality (2017)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656616302410?via%3Dihub
133
Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522160
63
Researchers contest widely-accepted UN's predictions on urban population growth
http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=0150beca-e3f5-47e0-bc74-9ccc5ef1db8a
EPA's proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best available science
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/trumps-epa-puts-our-health-at-risk/
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Should I Learn Java in 2018
https://www.e4developer.com/2018/06/09/should-i-learn-java-in-2018/
10
The secret maps used in World War II
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180712-an-ingenious-way-to-hide-a-map
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The Egison Programming Language
https://www.egison.org/
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WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat
http://time.com/5338287/wework-meat-vegetarian-company-environment/
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Elon Musk vs. Short sellers
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-sellers.118431/
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What it takes to stand up to authority
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180709-our-ability-to-stand-up-to-authority-comes-down-to-the-brain