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Pac-Man: How We Played the Game
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Retro Bitch
Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
People can tell you how many levels, what patterns to follow to beat the levels and how to get a “perfect game”. But until now, no one’s ever told you how people really played the…
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Ask HN: How would you monetize software that runs mostly offline?
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Bumblebees Sleeping in Flowers (2012)
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bee is beautiful
Bumblebees sleeping in flowers
Above you can see photos of Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) male falling asleep on a spike of lavander flower. I took the photograph in the evening, just as sunset was over and the temperature w…
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Google reveals “high severity” flaw in MacOS kernel
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Neowin
Google reveals "high severity" flaw in macOS kernel
Google's Project Zero has exposed a "high severity" flaw in macOS' kernel XNU - which apparently has issues in its implementation of copy-on-write behavior - after Apple failed to fix it in 90 days.
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The Middle Class in Chicago Is Almost Gone
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WBEZ
The Middle Class Is Shrinking Everywhere — In Chicago It’s Almost Gone
Half of Chicago’s census tracts were considered middle income in 1970. Today, that’s down to 16 percent.
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Designing a package manager from the ground up
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CircleCI
Designing a package manager from the ground up: an inside look at CircleCI orbs
A look back and share the key design decisions that went into creating and launching CircleCI orbs. If you’re using orbs today and want to understand how to get the most from them, or if you’re thinking about designing your own package management system,…
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Lithium in drinking water and crimes, suicides related to drug addictions (1990)
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ResearchGate
Lithium in drinking water and the incidences of crimes, suicides, and arrests related to drug addictions | Request PDF
Request PDF on ResearchGate | Lithium in drinking water and the incidences of crimes, suicides, and arrests related to drug addictions | Using data for 27 Texas counties from 1978-1987, it is shown that the incidence rates of suicide, homicide, and rape are…
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China's social network surveillance databases are apparently leaked to Internet
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Victor Gevers
Around 364 million online profiles and their chats & file transfers get processed daily. Then these accounts get linked to a real ID/person. The data is then distributed over police stations per city/province to separate operators databases with the same…
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Scientists brew cannabis using hacked beer yeast
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Nature
Scientists brew cannabis using hacked beer yeast
Nature - Researchers modify microbe to manufacture cannabis compounds including the psychoactive chemical THC.
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People Call My Photos Fake but They're Not
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Peta Pixel
People Call My Photos Fake… But They’re Not
The idea of this article came from a recent photo series I saw on BoredPanda about viral photos people thought were real but were fake. It reminded me of some of my photos people always call fake. People online judge you really easily. It used to really annoy…
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First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found
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SAPIENS
First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found
A fragment of a hominin skull adds to the sparse collection from our obscure cousins. Has the hunt for the Denisovans just begun?
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Amazon stops selling Dash buttons
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BBC News
Amazon stops selling Dash buttons
Amazon stops selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.
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Gender pay gap shrinks when companies disclose wages
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Cornell Chronicle
Gender pay gap shrinks when companies disclose wages | Cornell Chronicle
A new study suggests companies that disclose their wages can shrink the gap between what men and women earn by 7 percent. And it makes the workplace more equitable in other ways as well.
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Linux 5.0
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United Airlines’ so-called online security (2016)
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TechCrunch
It’s time to publicly shame United Airlines’ so-called online security
Dear executives of United Airlines, I have some advice for you. 1: Fire whoever is in charge of your online security. 2: Burn down the building in which they worked; it may be tainted. 3: Salt the ground so nothing ever grows there again, to be safe. 4: Hire…
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You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure
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Medium
You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure
How do you run your web products?
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PCjs Machines
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www.pcjs.org
PCjs Machines
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable…
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De-Google-Ify Internet
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New Hardware from PINE64
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Hackster.io
New Hardware From PINE64
The original Pine A64, hailed by many as a “Raspberry Pi killer” during its Kickstarter campaign, shipped to backers back in 2015…
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German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to
German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive.
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DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts
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Harvard Gazette
DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts
Geneticist David Reich discusses DNA findings that show how migration shaped Europe and southern Asia, and that “No population is, or ever could be, pure.”
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