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In Defense of Richard Stallman
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In Defense of Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman has had a rough month. This article is a decent summary of the events. In short: Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments on a private mailing list, most…
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A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies
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Meta Stack Exchange
Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no
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Avoid 100vh on Mobile Web
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chanind.github.io
Avoid 100vh On Mobile Web
Viewport units in CSS sound great. If you want to style an element to take up the full screen height, you can just set height: 100vh and voila - you have a perfect fullscreen element, which resizes as the viewport changes! Sadly, this is not the case. 100vh…
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Mesh Spreadsheet
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Avoiding Intellectual Phase Lock
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Google Books
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist
During World War II, Luis W. Alvarez participated in the Allies’ development of radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. He then worked as an experimental physicist on cyclotrons, particle accelerators and bubble chambers…
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Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
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Good News Network
For First Time Ever, Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis
Researchers have identified exactly where we can plant a certain amount of trees in order to stop the climate crisis in its tracks.
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Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi
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Instagram Threatened Users with Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat
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Beebom
Instagram Reportedly Threatened Users with Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat Content
Instagram representatives threatened influencers of removing verified status of their accounts if they shared Snapchat pictures and videos in the platform
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Increased risk of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies suggest (2015)
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Nature News & Comment
The myopia boom
Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. Some scientists think they have found a reason why.
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Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
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WSJ
Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
The internet is so saturated with 5-Star praise—some genuine, much paid for—that it’s difficult to know which sites you can trust
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Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone
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BBC News
Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone
Police used drones to track down a man who evaded detection for almost two decades.
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How to Smell (2018)
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Blogspot
How To Smell
Most of the ideas in this post come from the book Being A Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz, which is my f...
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Remote Code Execution in Firefox beyond Memory Corruptions
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Frederik Braun
Frederik Braun - Remote Code Execution in Firefox beyond memory corruptions
Click to view Frederik's blog post
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Twitter Executive for Middle East Is British Army 'Psyops' Soldier
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Middle East Eye
Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army 'psyops' soldier
Part-time officer has worked on 'behavioural change' projects in the region
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Show HN: Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support
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info-beamer
Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support
info-beamer hosted is the world's first digital signage solution for the Pi4 with dual display support, 4K display support and now HEVC/H265 video decoding with a resolution of up to 4K.
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Ask HN: Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?
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A Summer Without Sunspots
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Spaceweather.com
A Summer without Sunspots
Sept. 23, 2019: Could northern summer 2019 go down in history as “the summer without sunspots”? From June 21st until Sept 22nd, the sun was blank more than 89% of the time. During the e…
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What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?
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NY Times
What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?
Knowing the answer might force us toward a real solution.
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The Intelligence of Plants
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The Paris Review
The Intelligence of Plants by Cody Delistraty
September 26, 2019 – What if plants are smarter than we think — a lot smarter?
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Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the NPM ecosystem
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WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
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Reuters
WeWork throws in the towel on its ill-fated IPO
(Reuters) - WeWork’s parent The We Company on Monday filed to withdraw its initial public offering, a week after the SoftBank-backed office-sharing startup ousted founder Adam Neumann as its chief executive officer.
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