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Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
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Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam ... with graphics
Developers will upgrade its ASCII aesthetic and offer Steam Workshop support
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Show HN: Stuff β An Alternative to Facebook Events
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stuff.li
Stuff - Invitations to private and public events
Stuff is a platform for your digital invitations. To manage private gatherings and public events.
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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped
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NBC News
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Social media photos used without consent
Peopleβs faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
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Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?
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Why normalize Unicode strings
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withblue.ink
When "ZoΓ«" !== "ZoΓ«". Or why you need to normalize Unicode strings | With Blue Ink
Never heard of Unicode normalization? Youβre not alone. But it will save you a lot of trouble.
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βThe Left Hand of Darkness' at Fifty
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The Paris Review
The Left Hand of Darkness at Fifty
Packed with strange details and beautiful quirks, Ursula K. Le Guinβs novel allows us to imagine that our world could be different.
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Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
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Troy Hunt
These Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous:
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Buckminster Fuller on technology and useless jobs
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Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller Rails Against the βNonsense of Earning a Livingβ: Why Work Useless Jobs When Technology & Automation Can Letβ¦
We are a haunted species: haunted by the specter of climate change, of economic collapse, and of automation making our lives redundant. When Marx used the specter metaphor in his manifesto, he was ironically invoking Gothic tropes. But Communism was not aβ¦
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How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust
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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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USA TODAY
Facebook, Instagram were down most of Wednesday around the globe for many users
Having trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram Wednesday? You weren't alone.
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U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
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Business Insider
Trump announces all Boeing 737 Max jets are immediately grounded following its 2nd crash in 5 months
The US had resisted calls to ground the plane as much of the rest of the world did so.
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Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing
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Quanta Magazine
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
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Ars Technica
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.
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Reinforcement Learning with Unity 3D
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DTRANSPOSED
Project - Reinforcement Learning with Unity 3D: G.E.A.R
Over the course of the last several months I was working on a fantastic project organized by the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality. As a result, together with a team of students, we have developed a prototype of an autonomousβ¦
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Give Me Back My Monolith
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Craigkerstiens
Give me back my monolith - CRAIG KERSTIENS
It feels like weβre starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices. Itβs no longer multiple times a week we now see a blog post of βHow I migrated my monolith to 150 servicesβ. Now I often hear a bit more of the counter: βI donβt hate my monolithβ¦
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Open Source Rapid Hardware Prototyping
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Futurice
Rapid Hardware Prototyping - Turbocharge your process with PELA blocks β Futurice
Try out our new rapid prototyping technique which combines familiar tech with 3D printing.
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Show HN: Graph Processing with Postgres and GraphBLAS
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michelp/pggraphblas
High Performance Graph Processing with Postgres and GraphBLAS - michelp/pggraphblas
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Android Q Beta
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Android Developers Blog
Introducing Android Q Beta
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering In 2019, mobile innovation is stronger than ever, with new technologies from 5G to edge to edg...
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Bandit
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Granta
Bandit | Molly Brodak | Granta Magazine
βThere are fragments of a criminal alongside fragments of a dad, and nothing overlaps, nothing eclipses the otherβ, Molly Brodak on biography and memory in 'Bandit' published in Granta 132: Possession.
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The Web We Broke
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Ethanmarcotte
The web we broke. β ethanmarcotte.com
I read something depressing last Monday, and I canβt stop thinking about it.
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Death metal music inspires joy not violence
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Bbc
Death metal music inspires joy not violence
Despite gruesome lyrics, death metal does not desensitise fans to images of violence, a study shows.
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