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Libraries Are Scanning Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
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Vice
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
Millions of books are secretly in the public domain thanks to a copyright loophole, a new project seeks to put them on the Internet Archive.
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A Lunar Space Elevator Is Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find
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Observer
A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible & Inexpensive, Scientists Find
Researchers estimate that the project will cost a few billion dollars, which is “within the whim of one particularly motivated billionaire.”
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A basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600
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Ars Technica
How a basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600
Garry Kitchen's unlikely story is told in this excerpt from the book Arcade Perfect.
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Day Two to One Day
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Stratechery
Day Two to One Day
Amazon.com was showing signs of being a Day Two company, including the alleged manipulation of search. There is reason, though, to be optimistic that the company has gotten back to Day One. Plus, w…
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Take a Look at the Crossrail Station Under Bond Street
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www.ianvisits.co.uk
Take a look at the Crossrail station under Bond Street
Of all the Crossrail stations, the most controversial has to be Bond Street - as it's so behind schedule that it might not open when the Elizabeth line's own delayed opening takes place.
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HTTP/3 spin bit [pdf]
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GitHub
quicwg/wg-materials
Agenda, Minutes, Presentations. Contribute to quicwg/wg-materials development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
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Forbes
GitLab More Than Doubles Valuation To $2.75 Billion Ahead Of Planned 2020 IPO
GitLab's CEO says he's going public on November 18, 2020. Investors love it, pouring in $268 million at a $2.75 billion valuation.
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Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator
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the Guardian
Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator
Exclusive: Job has left some ‘addicted’ to extreme material and pushed others to far right
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Show HN: Statistical tool for analyzing a Git repository
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GitHub
GitHub - git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats: ▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics…
▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository. - git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats
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Commercial Solar
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Tesla
Design Your Solar | Tesla
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What the Ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence
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Aeon
Aliens in our midst
The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself
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Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers
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Bytevitae
Byte Vitae — Your high quality developer resume in less than 5 minutes
Sync your account. Choose a great looking design and download your resume!
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The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
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Medium
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
Who should be responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting open-source projects?
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The Å-Machine
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China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low
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Reuters
China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17-1/2 year low
BEIJING (Reuters) - The slowdown in China’s economy deepened in August, with growth in industrial production at its weakest 17-1/2 years amid spreading pain from a trade war with the United States and softening domestic demand.
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Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction
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Openai
Emergent tool use from multi-agent interaction
We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some…
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Firefox moving to 4 week releases
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle
Building and releasing a browser is complicated and involves many players. To optimize the process, and make it more reliable for all users, over the years we’ve developed a phased ...
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Raising Prices Is Hard
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Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
SaaS Pricing Strategy: Raising Prices and Getting Rave Reviews For It
Everyone is faced with raising prices at some point. It's hard not to upset your customers let alone get them to rave about it. Here's how we did it.
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WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall
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WSJ
WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall
As WeWork looks to restart its IPO later this year, features that cause shareholder dilution deserve closer scrutiny.
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
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Stack Overflow Blog
Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding - Stack Overflow Blog
What inspires someone to become a software developer? Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss how the culture of coding has evolved over the decades and where they hope it’s headed next.
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Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image
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BBC News
PR firms refuse to rebuild Hong Kong's image
Amid ongoing protests the government contacted eight PR firms, but all of them turned down the job.
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