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Goodreads Is Broken
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Medium
Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken
Despite Amazon’s innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless
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Show HN: GitDuck – Learn from other developers by watching how they work
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Duckly
Real-time coding sharing with any IDE. Duckly makes coding multiplayer
Duckly is a pair programming tool that enables you to code together with people using different IDEs. Share your code in real-time, talk, share your server, terminal and more with Duckly.
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Driving an Ambulance in the Age of Narcan
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Hazlitt
Magic Eraser Juice | Hazlitt
Driving an ambulance in an opioid-torn city in the age of Narcan.
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Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession
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Nytimes
Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas (Published 2019)
Amid the college admissions scandal, another type of cheating was overlooked: Students already in college who pay others to write their papers.
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Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95
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NY Times
Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95 (Published 2019)
Until 2017, he was the only leader his country had known since independence in 1980. He presided over its long decline.
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The days are long but the decades are short (2015)
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Sam Altman
The days are long but the decades are short
I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...
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CSRF is really dead
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Scott Helme
CSRF is (really) dead
A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on
SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against
CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had
to enable it on
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Public Suffix List Problems
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GitHub
GitHub - sleevi/psl-problems
Contribute to sleevi/psl-problems development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Top Programming Languages 2019
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IEEE Spectrum
The Top Programming Languages 2019
Python remains the big kahuna, but specialist languages hold their own
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Joichi Ito Resigns After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
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NY Times
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein (Published 2019)
Joichi Ito had acknowledged taking $525,000 for the lab from Mr. Epstein, as well as more than $1 million for his own investment funds.
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Show HN: I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies
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The American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong
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BuzzFeed.News
Made In America: For $9.50 An Hour, They Brew Tear Gas For Hong Kong
A BuzzFeed News investigation found low-paid American workers producing tear gas in potentially dangerous conditions. It's then shipped to Hong Kong, where it's used against pro-democracy protesters.
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App Updates for HTML5 Apps
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Apple
App Updates for HTML5 Apps - Latest News - Apple Developer
In order to provide users with the secure and curated experience that they expect on the App Store, we have always specified that apps must be self-contained bundles. This means that the core features and functionality of the app must be contained within…
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HK protesters use “unblockable” messaging via a bluetooth mesh
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Bbc
Hong Kong protesters using Bluetooth Bridgefy app
They want to communicate with each other while avoiding snooping from the Chinese authorities.
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Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
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Slate Star Codex
Is There A Case For Skepticism Of Psychedelic Therapy?
There’s been an explosion of interest in the use of psychedelics in psychiatry. Like everyone else, I hope this works out. But recent discussion has been so overwhelmingly positive that it…
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The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites
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the Guardian
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
The MIT-Epstein debacle shows ‘the prostitution of intellectual activity’. Time for a radical agenda: close the Media Lab, disband Ted Talks and refuse tech billionaires money
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You don’t have to be “pro-nuclear” or “anti-nuclear.”
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Vox
A beginner’s guide to the debate over nuclear power and climate change
Guess what? You don’t have to be "pro-nuclear" or "anti-nuclear."
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Utopia, Abandoned: The Olivetti Town
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NY Times
Utopia, Abandoned (Published 2019)
The Italian town Ivrea was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Now, it’s both a cautionary tale and evidence of a grand experiment in making labor humane.
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Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace
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Gizmodo
Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace, Baffling Scientists
A large monitoring station used to gather important scientific data in the Baltic Sea has mysteriously vanished.
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Outbreak of Lung Illness Associated with Using E-Cigarette Products
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New ways to make vertical farming stack up
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The Economist
New ways to make vertical farming stack up
Cultivating fresh produce in an artificial environment is getting cheaper
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