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| Stories from October 9, 2019 |
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| 1. | | Ken Thompson's Unix Password (leahneukirchen.org) |
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2101 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 637 comments |
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| 2. | | A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation (medium.com/ageitgey) |
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599 points by ageitgey on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 167 comments |
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| 3. | | Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer (thedailybeast.com) |
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750 points by minimaxir on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 304 comments |
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| 4. | | I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced (twitter.com/digitallawyer) |
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781 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 353 comments |
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| 5. | | Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators (quantamagazine.org) |
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427 points by tu7001 on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 96 comments |
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| 6. | | The Future of Mathematics? [video] (youtube.com) |
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271 points by dgellow on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 99 comments |
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| 7. | | Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy (reason.com) |
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318 points by utternerd on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 308 comments |
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| 8. | | Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans (zdnet.com) |
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339 points by JayQP on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 86 comments |
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| 9. | | String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet (scientificamerican.com) |
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298 points by Osiris30 on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 155 comments |
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| 10. | | Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half (gnu.org) |
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284 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 76 comments |
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| 11. | | Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident (vice.com) |
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605 points by rahuldottech on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 382 comments |
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| 12. | | Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2 (blog.mozilla.org) |
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339 points by sciurus on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 127 comments |
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| 13. | | New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness (nytimes.com) |
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247 points by ColinWright on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 83 comments |
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| 14. | | Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights (twitter.com/timsweeneyepic) |
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446 points by Aissen on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 107 comments |
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| 15. | | Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability (vicki.substack.com) |
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188 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 8, 2019 | hide | 92 comments |
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| 16. | | Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm (bekk.no) |
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197 points by Skinney on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 104 comments |
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| 17. | | China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app (techcrunch.com) |
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372 points by elsewhen on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 206 comments |
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| 18. | | The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI (medium.com/google-design) |
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241 points by keyle on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 99 comments |
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| 19. | | macOS 10.15 Vista (tyler.io) |
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386 points by feross on Oct 8, 2019 | hide | 315 comments |
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| 20. | | Designing a COM Library for Rust (microsoft.com) |
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184 points by arunc on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 64 comments |
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| 21. | | Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers (atlasobscura.com) |
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114 points by c89X on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 65 comments |
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| 22. | | Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers (stackoverflow.blog) |
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136 points by ingve on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 16 comments |
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| 23. | | Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry (twitter.com/grummz) |
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408 points by seapunk on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 150 comments |
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| 24. | | China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits (bbc.com) |
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252 points by ktln2 on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 93 comments |
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| 25. | | The Passion Economy and the Future of Work (a16z.com) |
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128 points by bentossell on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 88 comments |
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| 26. | | Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds (arstechnica.com) |
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126 points by lelf on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 117 comments |
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| 27. | | IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency (irs.gov) |
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168 points by sunils34 on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 142 comments |
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| 28. | | Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks? (twitter.com/benmarrow) |
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122 points by ninetax on Oct 8, 2019 | hide | 56 comments |
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| 29. | | Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots (googleblog.com) |
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88 points by theafh on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 25 comments |
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| 30. | | Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China (reddit.com) |
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382 points by fasthandle on Oct 9, 2019 | hide | 85 comments |
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