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17311.

Silicon Valley engineers are starting to doubt the wisdom of working at startups (listle.io)

2 points by cristinaibunea on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17312.

Tesla Patents New Chemistry for Better Batteries (popularmechanics.com)

2 points by elorant on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17313.

28 Samples of government malware awaiting further scrutiny (twitter.com)

2 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17314.

Reflections on Relativity (mathpages.com)

2 points by Tomte on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17315.

The Cult of the Noble Amateur (2018) (pnreview.co.uk)

2 points by lgessler on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17316.

Historical – Summary of the Google MySQL Effort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)

2 points by Edouar1 on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17317.

Why printers add secret tracking dots (2017) (bbc.com)

2 points by oscario on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17318.

Unidirectional, transactional, operation-based Store implementation for Swift (github.com)

2 points by alexdrone on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17319.

Fix *args-delegation in Ruby 2.7: ruby2_keywords semantics by default in 2.7.1 (bugs.ruby-lang.org)

2 points by RubyGuy on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17320.

US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops (courthousenews.com)

2 points by mhb on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17321.

How to convert standard WiFi dongles into digital broadcast transmitters [video] (media.ccc.de)

2 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17322.

The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet (arstechnica.com)

2 points by smacktoward on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17323.

A Prison Officer in Papua New Guinea (international.brandeins.de)

2 points by Tomte on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17324.

Rolls-Royce unveils aircraft set to be the world's fastest all-electric plane (goodnewznetwork.org)

2 points by Fa1c0n on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17325.

A Programmer Lost a Game He Made as a Kid, Until Someone Streamed It on Twitch (kotaku.com.au)

2 points by adrian_mrd on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17326.

Use Machine learnig to develop an auto-tuning for a distributed KV database (pingcap.com)

2 points by Edouar1 on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17327.

AT&T’s 5G coverage expands to New York, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and 3 others (theverge.com)

2 points by medleybron on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17328.

Simple Pluralization via `Intl.PluralRules` (2ality.com)

2 points by joeyespo on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17329.

Commenting Out Code in C# (Oldie but Goldie Tip) (weblogs.asp.net)

2 points by PretzelFisch on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17330.

Ten Predictions for the 2020s (alexdanco.com)

2 points by jger15 on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17331.

Google won’t sell Pixel 4 in India, reportedly due to Motion Sense radar (theverge.com)

2 points by joeyespo on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17332.

How tall should my Christmas tree be? (math.stackexchange.com)

2 points by cfedenko on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17333.

80-Core N1 Next-Gen Ampere, ‘QuickSilver’: The Anti-Graviton2 (anandtech.com)

2 points by rbanffy on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17334.

Safe-Guarding the (L)GPL Future of Qt (embeddeduse.com)

2 points by mroche on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17335.

DynamoDB or Aurora/RDS? Should We Always Use DynamoDB? (dev.to)

2 points by napicella on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17336.

Peter Thiel on China's Investment in Research and Development (youtu.be)

2 points by melling on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17337.

Rocket creates a fireball as it launches, and that’s by design (arstechnica.com)

2 points by Tomte on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17338.

Growth (patrickcollison.com)

2 points by jger15 on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17339.

A Neuroscientist Explains What Sugar Does to Our Brains (sciencealert.com)

2 points by laurex on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments

17340.

Prosecutor launches investigation into FinFisher for illegal export of spyware (web.archive.org)

2 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 29, 2019 | 0 comments