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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
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607
111
Space Engine
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410
202
GitHub is down
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GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
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Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
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Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners
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Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation
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391
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Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux
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India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
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A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
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Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces
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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
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Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business
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Pure JavaScript WiFi QR Code Generator
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Study: Immigrants and their kids founded 45% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies
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How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies
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The AI of GoldenEye 007
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Robinhood raises $323M at a $7.6B valuation
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Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake
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Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination
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169
Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux's Dominance [pdf]
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The Best Magazine Articles Ever (2012)
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The Show Horse and the Work Horse
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An Analysis of WeChat’s Realtime Image Filtering in Chats
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151
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PEG Parsers
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Inside Coinbase’s Executive Turmoil: Conflicting Visions
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A Grimoire of Functions
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Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)
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NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea
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Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
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17
Shortcuts JS – Create Apple Shortcuts Using JavaScript
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FE-Schrift
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30
Researchers Develop ‘Trojan Horse’ Drug That Tricks, Then Kills Cancer Cells
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56
Why Has Language Changed So Much So Fast? ‘Because Internet’
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Azolla Event
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176
Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat
https://www.fastcompany.com/90377949/airlines-are-finally-fixing-the-middle-seat
75
How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts
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97
27
The Great Stink
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6
https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4
40
Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman
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90
The Self Programming Language
http://www.selflanguage.org/
19
French Minerve submarine is found after disappearing in 1968
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49068823
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64
China’s State Media Show Hong Kong Protest Images, Fanning Public Anger
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86
Ubisoft joins blender development fund
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69
Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
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Webvan
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