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422
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Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
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366
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https://bitwarden.com/
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https://brave.com/vpn0-a-privacy-preserving-distributed-virtual-private-network/
337
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316
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47
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https://tuzz.tech/blog/how-bash-completion-works
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292
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https://williamyaoh.com/posts/2019-10-05-you-are-already-smart-enough.html
282
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259
117
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https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/carriers/telecom-lobbyists-remove-canada-wireless-report/
96
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-farmer-wang-englin-study-law-16-years-chemicals-corporation-qinghua-group-dump-chemical-a7566911.html
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207
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https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/
64
An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Newest Flight Simulator
http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/
206
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839321500158X
204
20
Building a constraint programming solver in Julia
http://opensourc.es/blog/constraint-solver-1
201
74
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https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/54648/what-is-the-german-word-for-it-only-works-when-i-try-to-show-you-how-it-does-n
193
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https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/why-new-york-city-stopped-building-subways/557567/
171
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90408472/cheap-smartphones-have-a-disturbing-secret
170
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-anne-hildago-green-city-climate-change.html
169
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https://salon.thefamily.co/the-google-seo-bible-everything-a-startup-needs-to-know-a60dbac2d060
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World's Best-Run Pension Funds Say It's Time to Start Worrying
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/world-s-best-run-pension-funds-say-it-s-time-to-start-worrying
149
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvbAm0y8YQ
148
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The Mun Programming Language
https://mun-lang.org/
147
25
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https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/10/06/zupiter-a-web-based-modular-synthesizer/
142
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars
46
The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
https://medium.com/@lewgus/the-untold-story-about-the-founding-of-google-maps-e4a5430aec92
58
Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9pz_EmKhA
126
38
I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor
https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers?__twitter_impression=true
125
62
Taboola and Outbrain are merging to create a clickbait giant
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/business/media/online-advertising-chumbox-merger.html
121
Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/04/journalist-says-cbp-officer-withheld-his-passport-until-he-agreed-he-writes-propaganda/
120
30
Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/05/nxdomain/
119
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China’s Millennials
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n19/-shengyun/chinas-millennials
50
High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-economy-and-the-planet-but-it-wont-reform-itself-banking-wall-street-city-of-london
114
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A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)
https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-modulo-reduction/
113
6
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https://datto.engineering/post/causing-zfs-corruption
112
52
How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/06/player-mindset/
97
27
Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/echolocation-blind-people-reveals-brain-s-adaptive-powers
71
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https://bitcannon.net/post/huawei-matebook-x-pro-void-linux/
Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs