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Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]

US 50 states redrawn as equal population

Why the free upgrade to Windows 10 still works

1958 Facom 128B Japanese Relay Computer, Still Working [video]

Spam and Phishing in Q3 2019

Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf]

Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design

Miltown: A game-changing drug you've probably never heard of (2017)

EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection

Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors (2004)

Linus: People should aim to make “badly written” code “just work”

Obesity, extreme diet: 382 days without eating. It works

Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality (2017)

Pilots Revving Engines Too Hard Led to IndiGo’s Airbus Woes

Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy

Urbit

What I've Learned over National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) 2019

Self Hosted – Zendesk Clone – Multi Domain Customer Support Desk Solution

Show HN: MScSim – the real time flight dynamics simulation software

Show HN: The Jumping Jouster, a Godot game I made in my spare time

Small Projects, Big Companies

Jacob Collier’s four magical chords

Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (1999)

Open-Source Home Automation

Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious

Automated Vacuum Collection

ELF Binaries and Relocation Entries

Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors

Show HN: Keycat – A self-hosted end-to-end encrypted password manager

ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B

Visualizing Hip-Hop Melodies

Save on Google Assistant speakers, Bluetooth earbuds, and more in JBL's Black Friday sale

Improving CLIs with isatty

Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything

Introduction to Data Compression (2013) [pdf]

Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017)

How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn?

Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles

Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US

Hack-a-Mol

React in concurrent mode: 2000 state-connected comps re-rendered at 60FPS

Can hundreds of unrelated satellites create a GPS backup?

ISOC revealed it would get 1.13B from US investors for .org

Watching pornography rewires the brain to a more juvenile state

Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes

Digital Tools I Wish Existed

Ask HN: Burning Out

Burned-Out Flash Trips Up Older Teslas

The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning

Silicon Valley-Backed App Lenders Use Phone Data to Hassle Borrowers

Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for low-carbon travel

Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

Advent of Code 2019

Scientists turn undersea fiber optic cables into seismographs

DeepPCB: Pure AI-Powered, Cloud-Native Printed Circuit Board Routing

Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

My 2019 programming language hierarchy

Ask HN: What should be taught in high school?

Show HN: A live-drawn portrait of the common face

Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser

Mental Mountains

Corals that could survive climate change and help save the world’s reefs

Making Git and Jupyter Notebooks play nice

New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all

AMD's Ryzen Gang Is Currently Clobbering Intel on Salea

DDR4 SDRAM – Initialization, Training and Calibration

RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community

India plans to cap commissions for Uber, Ola: Economic Times

ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring. Help us make APIs easy to use

Jor1k: Run Linux in the browser with multicore and network support

Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

Man or boy test

Uber’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Shared Driver Accounts

Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560x1440 screen resolution

Webglstudio.js – A full open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser

Syscall Call-From Verification

California school shooting shines light on murky 'ghost gun' world

Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal

Walmart announces big Black Friday deals on Android phones, Chromebooks, TVs, and a ton more (Update: Live)

CoinTracker (YC W18) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers in SF

Biased Reference Counting: Minimizing atomic operations in GC (2018) [pdf]

A Brief History of the Current Empirical Software Engineering Science Turf War

The Great American Eye Exam Scam

Moment’s new 14mm lens promises razor-sharp super-wide photos

[ASAP] Ultrafast Oxime Formation Enables Efficient Fluorescence Light-up Measurement of DNA Base Excision

[ASAP] -Aggregates of Cyanine Dye for NIR-II Dynamic Vascular Imaging beyond 1500 nm

[ASAP] Tracking Photoinduced Au–Au Bond Formation through Transient Terahertz Vibrations Observed by Femtosecond Time-Domain Raman Spectroscopy

On John Simon

Every Black Friday deal worth checking out at Home Depot

The tough dogs that helped people to settle a frozen land

Excite CEO: here's why Excite didn't buy Google for $750k and 1% Excite stocks

Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones

Bootstrap v4.4.0 Released

Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones (1930)

Show HN: Gorse – An recommender system back end based on collaborative filtering

Ask HN: Quiting Big Tech, what is it like?

Nabokov Was Right About Butterflies (2011)

The least common divisor and the greatest common multiple

Your Debugger Sucks

It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

Scientists using MRI scans to reveal physical makeup of thoughts and feelings

Google's Pixel Stand wireless charger is now $62 ($18 off)

Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer

The secret sauce of collaboration

Today only: Grab a refurbished Asus Chromebook C523 for just $175

Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users

A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS

Twitter will delete inactive accounts starting December

Remember the ‘blended orgasms’ sex toy CES banned? It’s available for preorder now

Bug Out: Troubleshooting Software Delays on London’s Crossrail Project

AVX register corruption from signal delivery

Nomogram

Get the Logitech Harmony Elite remote for $230 ($40 off) at multiple retailers

Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core

Stock up on smart plugs with TP-Link's 4-pack deal for $40 ($10 off)

Show HN: KickStarter for open source projects and LinkedIn for OSS contributors

Chromebooks now include three months of Disney+, until February 2020

The Worst Businessman of the 18th Century BC (2018)

West Virginia Inmates Will Be Charged by the Minute to Read E-Books on Tablets

FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products

Google adds 37 more apps to Play Pass, including Cut the Rope, Cross DJ Pro, and Podcast Republic

GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI

The Mundane, the Mystical, and the Meta

Big Tech's Big Defector

Vikrum Nijjar: Engineer #1 at Firebase and Founder of Gold Fig Labs (YC S19)

Grab the Withings Steel HR Sport hybrid watch for just $140 ($60 off)

Haproxy-2.1.0

Ford VP challenges Tesla’s Cybertruck, Musk says ‘bring it on’

How machine learning is revolutionising market intelligence

Sony's very tall Xperia 10 Plus is $330 ($100 off) at Amazon, B&H, and Best Buy

Battleborn, gaming’s perpetual also-ran, to shut down in 2021

Five ways China must cultivate research integrity

Pick up Anker's PowerPort Atom III to charge all your Black Friday purchases for $28 ($15 off)

How Disneyland Came to Be

A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its ‘Impossible Whopper.’ He Has a Point

D.H. Lawrence's stunning, indefensible essays

Show HN: Excel Sensitivity Analysis Tool

The Mystery of Lincoln’s First Inauguration Photograph

Early Chinese World Maps (2010)

The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Director of SEO

Legit: A complementary CLI for Git, optimized for workflow simplicity

'Idea Laundering' in Academia

Possible explanations for the slow progress of AI research

End of a Decade

Ask HN: Any front end engineers transition to ML/AI engineering? What's it like?

Recreation.gov: Explore America's outdoor and cultural destinations

Magdeburg Water Bridge

AI Winter

Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018)

DeepFovea: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression

An Oral History of LimeWire

Are We Wayland Yet?

Tracking Pollen with Quantum Dots

I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It

The Big Push: IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration

Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company?

Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web

Hong Kong Voters Show Strong Support for Pro-Democracy Forces

Get a Pixel 4 for $599 or 4 XL for $699 ($200 off) before the Black Friday rush

CUDA 10.2 is the last release to support macOS

Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

My experience being a solo maintainer of open-source software in academia

Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay

The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)

Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000

Loving Latin at the End of the World

Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Exploiting prototype pollution

The Rape of Men: The Darkest Secret of War

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules

The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance. Patients Paid the Price

Towards a unified theory of reactive UI

YouTube channel owners: Is your content directed to children? (COPPA ruling)

Jslinux

How the Mouse Is Made

Conjuring Clojure in Vim

Diagram.codes

Positional Drum Notation [pdf]

Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG

The History of Smallpox

PIA bought by company known for distributing malware

Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention

Defending Switzerland’s coffee stockpile

Digital Foundry compares Stadia's Red Dead Redemption 2 to other versions

Truth or consequences

Culdesac: Car-free neighborhood built from scratch in Tempe

How does a video codec work?

Google Pay (Tez) for India gets a Material Design makeover to improve usability [APK Download]

Grab a Samsung Gear S3 Frontier for $189 ($41 off)

Show HN: PNGR – Docker-compose for a Postgres-Nginx-Golang-React stack

Ohio Submarines Were Designed to Be Drone-Carrying Clandestine Command Centers

Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring Engineers (Node) to Expand Our Experience Platform

Copenhagen Cycles with the Young, the Old, the Busy and the Dead

Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion

The future that graphene built

Bollinger B2 an Electric Pickup Truck You Might Have Missed

Save .org

Show HN: Team newsletter instead of sharing links on Slack

Apple has a new system for dealing with bugs in future iOS releases

Samsung's Black Friday sales are live for phones, tablets, and more

Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming

These renders show what Samsung’s Galaxy S11 might look like

Command Line Applications in Rust

Hacker Laws: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

Tesla unveils the wildly futuristic Cybertruck, starting at $39,900

What Tweets and Emojis Did to the Novel

Topology-disturbing objects: a new class of 3D optical illusion

Tesla Cybertruck

Tesla Cybertruck [video]

The Socialist Revival

Another New Form of Carbon – It’s a Weird One

Facebook considers political ad limits after Twitter and Google take action

Tesla Cyber Truck Live Stream – 8pm PST

Police hid tracking device on a car – charged owner with theft after removal

Show HN: TeXMe Demo – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

The Making of Margaret Atwood

Beyond Petra

Deep Learning with PyTorch book is now available for free

Totally America