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Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
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Tired of Stack Overflow
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Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account
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The Secret History of Dune
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The more you learn, the faster you can learn
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NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived
https://thegradient.pub/nlps-clever-hans-moment-has-arrived/
266
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South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/09/02/south-africa-mass-surveillance-spying-undersea-fiber-cables/
256
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Show HN: Face Generator
http://xn--5ca.cc/jack-of-diamonds/#Faces
254
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A guide to Oauth2
https://milapneupane.com.np/2019/09/02/a-complete-guide-to-oauth2-protocol/
252
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Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/43770
239
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Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dual-amd-epyc-7742-vs-quad-intel-xeon-platinum-8180m,40288.html
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An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
https://blog.conan.io/2019/09/02/Deterministic-builds-with-C-C++.html
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Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier
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Timeline for Logic, λ-Calculus, and Programming Language Theory (2012) [pdf]
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Entropic Gravity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity
189
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Open Forensic Science in R
https://sctyner.github.io/OpenForSciR/
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Curl Cookbook
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SpaceX Refused to Move Satellite at Risk of Collision with a European Satellite
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179
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Show HN: Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857887
168
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The Crash of United Flight 232 (2017)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a10478/the-final-flight-of-united-232-16755928/
154
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Good Code Design from Linux
https://leandromoreira.com.br/2019/08/02/linux-ffmpeg-source-internals-a-good-software-design/
145
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Generating natural-sounding synthetic speech using brain activity
https://humanbioscience.org/2019/04/new-brain-machine-interface-can-generate-natural-sounding-synthetic-speech-using-brain-activity.html
141
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Dark Patterns
https://www.darkpatterns.org/
139
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Dead Malls
http://deadmalls.com/
138
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Investigators who know you’ve faked your death
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/inside-the-world-of-investigators-who-know-youve-faked-your-death
69
Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert's “Dune” (2004-2017)
https://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html
131
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Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising
https://workoutbff.com/
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How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-how-a-secret-dutch-mole-aided-the-us-israeli-stuxnet-cyber-attack-on-iran-160026018.html
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https://reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/cyefu5/activists_release_code_to_generate_free_public/
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Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (2017)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nushu-chinese-script-women
106
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Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07695
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Firefox Nightly on Mac OS decreases power usage by 3x
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/31/flight-risk-can-we-take-the-carbon-out-of-air-travel
90
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https://programming-journal.org/2020/4/1/
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Mat Dan: 'I became an accidental celebrity 6,000 miles from home'
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https://www.fralix.fr/posts/create_freebsd-current_openstack_image_on_ovh_public_cloud/
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Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mark-twains-quest-bring-affordable-watches-masses-180972813/
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https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/08/27/the-price-of-self-delusion/
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https://www.damninteresting.com/the-eponymous-mr-ponzi
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The Urban Planning Behind America’s Weirdest McDonald’s
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/the-urban-planning-behind-americas-weirdest-mcdonalds/
74
The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/02/754316710/meet-the-man-who-guards-americas-ketchup
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Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850k malware infections
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/01/police-botnet-takedown-infections/
A list of the top recipients on Patreon shows an obsession with the ordinary
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