| 1. | | Ken Thompson's Unix Password (leahneukirchen.org) |
| 2101 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 637 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation (medium.com/ageitgey) |
| 599 points by ageitgey on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 167 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | The Future of Mathematics? [video] (youtube.com) |
| 271 points by dgellow on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 99 comments [ext] |
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Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com) |
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404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
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| 4. | | Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators (quantamagazine.org) |
| 427 points by tu7001 on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 96 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced (twitter.com/digitallawyer) |
| 781 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 353 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer (thedailybeast.com) |
| 750 points by minimaxir on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 304 comments [ext] |
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The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com) |
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174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
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| 7. | | Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy (reason.com) |
| 318 points by utternerd on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 308 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans (zdnet.com) |
| 339 points by JayQP on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 86 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet (scientificamerican.com) |
| 298 points by Osiris30 on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 155 comments [ext] |
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Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com) |
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244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
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| 10. | | Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half (guix.gnu.org) |
| 284 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 76 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness (nytimes.com) |
| 247 points by ColinWright on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 83 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability (vicki.substack.com) |
| 188 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 8, 2019 [ext] | 92 comments [ext] |
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Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence () |
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215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
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| 13. | | Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2 (blog.mozilla.org) |
| 339 points by sciurus on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 127 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm (bekk.no) |
| 197 points by Skinney on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 104 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers (atlasobscura.com) |
| 114 points by c89X on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 65 comments [ext] |
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Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph) |
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344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
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| 16. | | The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI (medium.com/google-design) |
| 241 points by keyle on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 99 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | Designing a COM Library for Rust (msrc-blog.microsoft.com) |
| 184 points by arunc on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 64 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers (stackoverflow.blog) |
| 136 points by ingve on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 16 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 19. | | Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident (vice.com) |
| 605 points by rahuldottech on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 382 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights (twitter.com/timsweeneyepic) |
| 446 points by Aissen on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 107 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | The Passion Economy and the Future of Work (a16z.com) |
| 128 points by bentossell on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 88 comments [ext] |
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Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets () |
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374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
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| 22. | | Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds (arstechnica.com) |
| 126 points by lelf on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 117 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | macOS 10.15 Vista (tyler.io) |
| 386 points by feross on Oct 8, 2019 [ext] | 315 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots (googleblog.com) |
| 88 points by theafh on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 25 comments [ext] |
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The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me) |
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478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 25. | | China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app (techcrunch.com) |
| 372 points by elsewhen on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 206 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | Artifact: What Went Wrong? (thezvi.wordpress.com) |
| 130 points by Ariarule on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 83 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks? (twitter.com/benmarrow) |
| 122 points by ninetax on Oct 8, 2019 [ext] | 56 comments [ext] |
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How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com) |
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443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 28. | | IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency (irs.gov) |
| 168 points by sunils34 on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 142 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits (bbc.com) |
| 252 points by ktln2 on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 93 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack (cnn.com) |
| 135 points by ga-vu on Oct 9, 2019 [ext] | 68 comments [ext] |
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Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate () |
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257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
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