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Observations on Wikipedia Behavior (2008)
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Wikipedia
User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
Some observations on behavior on Wikipedia, interspersed with recommendations on how to deal with it.
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Libra Core Facebook's Cryptocurrency
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GitHub - diem/diem: Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around…
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world. - diem/diem
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Show HN: My new book on mental models, Super Thinking
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Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development
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Superblocks: Barcelona’s plan to take back streets from cars
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Vox
Barcelona’s radical plan to take back streets from cars
Introducing "superblocks."
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An artificially intelligent, open-source bionic leg
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Quartz
An artificially intelligent, open-source bionic leg could change the future of prosthetics
The earliest prosthetics were decidedly “dumb” devices: a 3,000-year-old wooden toe, found in Egypt; a knife in the place of a hand in medieval Italy; a 16th-century “Tin Man” arm, fashioned out of iron.
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Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency
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Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency (Published 2019)
Despite skepticism and concern about Facebook’s reach, the company envisions an alternative financial system based on a new cryptocurrency called Libra.
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Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
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Our World in Data
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
Global population has increased rapidly over the past century. This period of rapid growth is temporary: the world is entering a new equilibrium and rapid population growth is coming to an end.
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India is drying up, fast
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The Tribune
India is drying up, fast
Congratulations to all. Congratulations to all... we have achieved 50 degree temperature this year. Let’s cut more trees to achieve 60 degrees the next year,’ a sarcastic tweet the other day came as a jolt. It was, however, hard to tell whether…
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Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
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Science
Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
“We will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited,” astronomers predict.
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Use Coq in the Browser: The JsCoq Theorem Prover Online IDE
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coq.vercel.app
jsCoq – Use Coq in Your Browser
An Online IDE for the Coq Theorem Prover
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Google Calendar Is Down
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The worst morale boosting gesture I've experienced
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shkspr.mobi
The worst morale boosting gesture I’ve experienced – Terence Eden’s Blog
Regular blogging by Terence Eden.
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The Dawn of Robot Surveillance
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American Civil Liberties Union
The Dawn of Robot Surveillance
Imagine a surveillance camera in a typical convenience store in the 1980s. That camera was big and expensive, and connected by a wire running through the wall to a VCR sitting in a back room. There
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Replay of the Apollo 11 mission in real time from 50 years ago
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Ask HN: How would you teach teens to code in 2019?
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Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
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Tapmydata
Protect your privacy: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google - Tapmydata - Take control of your data
This first post in our Protect your Privacy series, guides to help you protect your privacy and personal data, we have compiled some of the best privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don’t track you. If you think we’ve missed something out, please…
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Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep
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YouTuber Simone Giertz Transformed a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck
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The Verge
YouTuber Simone Giertz transformed a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck
Giertz got tired of waiting for Elon Musk
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'They didn't look old enough': who filled a French art gallery with fakes?
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the Guardian
'They didn't look old enough': who filled a French art gallery with fakes?
Last year, a museum dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus revealed most of its paintings were probably not by him. How did they get there?
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A Bridge Made of Grass
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BBC News
A bridge made of grass
The annual remaking of the last remaining Inca rope bridge at Q'eswachaka in Peru.
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