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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google ...
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A Regular Expression Matcher, Code by Rob Pike (2007)
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Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades
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Swiss machines 'used to spy on governments for decades'
Secret control of a Swiss device enabled the US and Germany to collect classified information, reports say.
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McClatchy files bankruptcy
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mcclatchydc
McClatchy files bankruptcy to shed costs of print legacy and speed shift to digital
The nation’s second largest local news company is working to position itself for a digital future.
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AT&T mobile users are unable to access Tutanota
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Tutanota
AT&T is blocking Tutanota. This shows why we must fight for net neutrality.
ISPs should not have the power to decide which online services users can or can not access.
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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
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howonlee.github.io
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit
There’s a sort of breathless industry-specific fact in software that goes around every so often.
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Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
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GitHub
GitHub - p-e-w/plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application - p-e-w/plotinus
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Show HN: I published my first website –
ShellMagic.xyz
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State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo
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The complexity of downloading favicons
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Simple CTO
The Complexity of Downloading Favicons, told in 15+ edge cases
"I'll just quickly code up this thing to do the thing." Twenty hours later you look up, see commit-log filled with WTF moments and profanity, and nested if statements handling edge cases you never thought possible. Welcome to downloading favicons.
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Creating haptic feedback in iOS 13
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Exyte
Creating haptic feedback in iOS 13 with Core Haptics
With iOS 13 release Apple finally added a new framework called Core Haptics, which allows developers to define and play custom haptic feedback patterns.
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Burnoutindex.org
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ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
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Medium
ING open sources Lion: A library of performant, accessible & flexible Web Components
TL;DR: Web development can be hard, whether you’re making your own components, implementing Design Systems, support many different…
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Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
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Boing Boing
Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
Facebook is designed to make you anxious, depressed and dissatisfied, three states of mind that make you more vulnerable to advertising and other forms of behavioral manipulation. Small wonder, the…
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Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
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This utter crap is being distributed through schools from the 'local authority' so presume @WalsallCouncil today. The level of disinformation is staggering. I'd be proud to find my kids learning to use any of these. Except Discord but that's nothing to do…
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The outsize influence of middle-school friends
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The Outsize Influence of Your Middle-School Friends
The intensity of feelings generated by friendship in childhood and adolescence is by design.
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How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
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Slack Engineering
How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack - Slack Engineering
Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without leaving a permanent mark. Microkernels; EPIC architectures like IA-64; object request brokers; and 1990s’-style neural nets are gone, and will not return.…
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The web as a GUI toolkit
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The web as a GUI toolkit
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New math makes scientists more certain about quantum uncertainties
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IEEE Spectrum
New Math Makes Scientists More Certain About Quantum Uncertainties
New statistical calculations suggest the fundamental quantum limits of some sensitive measurements may have been off by a factor of pi
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GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
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The GitHub Blog
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
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Siding with Amazon, Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s Pentagon Contract
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NY Times
Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s JEDI Contract, a Victory for Amazon
The judge ordered work to stop on a cloud-computing contract for the Pentagon until Amazon’s legal challenge was resolved.
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