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Literate Commits (2016)
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Pete Corey
Literate Commits
Literate Commits is a new take on the concept of Donald Knuth’s Literate Programming that tells a story through your repository’s commit history.
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‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
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NY Times
‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
Reporters were once a force for accountability in China. But President Xi Jinping has brought about what critics call a “total censorship era.”
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Unemployed Fishing
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Unemployed Fishing
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The day Volkswagen briefly conquered the world (2018)
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The day Volkswagen briefly conquered the world
In midst of the great financial crisis, something odd happened. Volkswagen, the German carmaker, became the biggest company in the world. For one, brief day.
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Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database
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Stein
Ship fast and manage your data with ease. Connect to Google Sheets.
Use Google Sheets as your no-setup data store. Build fast and get a familiar interface for managing the data, with the open source Stein.
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Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
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X (formerly Twitter)
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Newton, the Man (1946)
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VW invests $2.6B in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance
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TechCrunch
VW invests $2.6 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance
VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal has been rumored for months. Separately, the companies…
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Eastgate Centre, Harare
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Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Has Died
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NY Times
Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93 (Published 2019)
In a breakthrough in the 1960s, he showed that computers could be used interactively with quick results, and also made secure from others’ using them.
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Steam Labs
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Steampowered
Steam Labs
A peek at some of the many experiments we put together around discoverability, video, machine learning, and more.
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Why this man became a hermit at 20
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Bbc
Why this man became a hermit at 20
Many people really don't like being alone. They feel lonely. For others, however, solitude can be a source of ecstasy.
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Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?
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BBC News
The internet as religious experience
Religion is in the ascendant across the world, but it has a new, powerful rival - the internet.
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Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal
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Inside GNSS
Galileo Interruptus? Official Notice on 11 July Advises Users that Galileo Service is Degraded on All Satellites Until Further…
Our source inside the European GNSS Agency (GSA), which is the EU agency responsible for Galileo services, has told us: "They are working on it. Teams from indu
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Programming and Programming Languages (2018)
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MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
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AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
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New Scientist
AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
A sheet of glass can distinguish between drawings of 0 to 9, because light waves reflected off the images are bent differently as they pass through the glass
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Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
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Los Angeles Times
Column: In act of brinkmanship, a big publisher cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
The bitter battle between the University of California, a leading source of published research papers, and Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of research papers, just got more bitter.
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Ask HN: I'm trying to represent an entire building as a graph
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Picture of two quantum entangled photons
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Science Advances
Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior
We report the violation of a Bell inequality within full-field coincidence images of a phase object probed by entangled photons.
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Google Photos is making your photos semi-public and you probably don’t realise
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Medium
Google Photo is making your photos semi-public and you probably don’t realise
I’ve noticed something about Google Photos that is weird enough that nobody initially believes it.
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