Salon Magazine Mines Monero on Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43053783

Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemployment-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011) http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/index.html

Google Brain: Assessing Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Computer Vision https://research.googleblog.com/2018/02/assessing-cardiovascular-risk-factors.html

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky has joined Y Combinator as a partner https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/pebble-founder-eric-migicovsky-has-joined-y-combinator-as-a-partner/

Time Travelers http://inference-review.com/article/time-travelers

Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/747.full

Maybe you don’t need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS http://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to-speed-up-your-js.html

Reading bits in far too many ways https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/reading-bits-in-far-too-many-ways-part-1/

Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question http://www.embedded-computing.com/industrial/qt-or-html5

A Tribute to John Perry Barlow https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2018/02/music-never-stopped

Researchers Use CRISPR to Detect HPV and Zika https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/15/crispr-detect-hpv-and-zika/

PocketSuite (YC W16) lets anyone “Be your own boss”. Join our Growth team https://angel.co/pocketsuite/jobs/332667-customer-activation-specialist

Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-is-your-brain-on-silence-rp

The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years. Here’s What They Found https://endpoints.elysiumhealth.com/the-dunedin-study-e8d370ae630c

B.C. vows crackdown after Globe investigation reveals money-laundering scheme https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/real-estate-money-laundering-and-drugs/article38004840/

Tilemap generation from single example using ideas from quantum mechanics https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time https://ide.onelang.io

We Are the Threat: Reflections on Near-Term Human Extinction https://criticaltheoryresearchnetwork.com/2018/02/14/threat-reflections-near-term-human-extinction/

Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation in images http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-03783-002

Frivpn – A multi-threaded OpenVPN client https://github.com/znuh/frivpn

Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-sculpture-color-polychromy

So You Think You Have a Power Law (2007) http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html

Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx08yRsR9ow

A taste of CoreData – A graph framework https://yageek.github.io/blog/2018/02/19/a-taste-of-core-data-0-a-graph-framework/

Roth Agonistes http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/08/philip-roth-agonistes/

Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages https://blog.realkinetic.com/elm-changed-my-mind-about-unpopular-languages-190a23f4a834

Developing SaaS? Forget Scrum, Check Out Kanban and Similar Approaches https://onsaasproducts.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/developing-saas-forget-scrum-check-out-kanban-and-similar-approaches/

Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native Caribbeans https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/natives-of-the-caribbean-wiped-out-during-colonization-left-dna-behind/

BACE1 deletion in the adult mouse reverses preformed amyloid deposition http://jem.rupress.org/content/early/2018/02/13/jem.20171831

Predicting Productivity Gains from Parking Behavior (2014) https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=933078022002123108006124099108006112015082062038033030120096090096068092097009094085034019003061029120125093099014088019077066021059074001067101071011028121125090090032037067004022016110122117117027028087014070025092003024020092109112120110122020092&EXT=pdf

Limehouse Lights and the Lunar New Year: London’s Two Chinatowns and Literature http://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2018/02/limehouse-lights-and-the-lunar-new-year.html

A320-X DRM: What happened https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/announcement/11-a320-x-drm-what-happened/

Günter Blobel, a Nobel laureate in medicine who found cell ‘zip codes’, has died https://nytimes.com/2018/02/19/obituaries/gunter-blobel-nobel-laureate-who-found-cell-zip-codes-dies-at-81.html

The Circuitry in Our Cells https://www.asimov.io/blog/2017/12/19/the-circuitry-in-our-cells

The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2011) https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2011/pr-famine-040411.html

Use streaming JSON to reduce latency on mobile https://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/streaming_json_jsons/

First Austrian company introduces 30-hour-workweek https://www.emagnetix.at/30sindgenug/

Gradual Typing [for category theorists] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/gradual_typing.html

Google’s CardDAV server isn’t standards compliant (2014) https://evertpot.com/google-carddav-issues/

How Apple is paving the way to a ‘cloud dictatorship’ in China https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/02/17/apple-paving-way-cloud-dictatorship-china/

Finding the Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06038

A Clojure learning journey https://www.stuttaford.me/2018/02/18/a-clojure-learning-journey/

The duties of John von Neumann’s assistant (1993) https://shitpost.plover.com/m/math.jobs-you-dont-want.html

Latex-mimosis: A minimal and modern template for your thesis https://github.com/Submanifold/latex-mimosis

Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014) https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html

Author Brian Dear talks about the amazing PLATO computing system https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/author-brian-dear-talks-about-the-amazing-plato-computing-system/

3 Surprising Lessons from Ditching My Car in Los Angeles https://medium.com/@miccohen/can-i-live-a-year-in-l-a-without-a-car-b0287ee5fcfb

Gates says billionaires should pay ’significantly’ more taxes https://phys.org/news/2018-02-gates-billionaires-significantly-taxes.html

Twitter and the Internet War https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war

The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy [pdf] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf

Xltrail – An open-source Git command line extension for Excel workbook files https://www.xltrail.com/git-xltrail

CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless/tree/master/whitepaper

Google discloses Microsoft Edge security flaw before a patch is ready https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17027138/google-microsoft-edge-security-flaw-disclosure

Flight Simulator Installs Password-Stealing Malware in Attempt to Combat Piracy https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/pamzqk/fs-labs-flight-simulator-password-malware-drm?__twitter_impression=true

Working remotely, 4 years in https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/02/18/working-remotely--4-years-in/

SEC May Take Enforcement Action Against Investors Who Promoted Unregulated ICOs https://medium.com/@getongab/the-sec-may-take-enforcement-action-against-investors-who-promoted-unregulated-icos-78a695ae338c

Predicting Starman’s Return to Earth https://hackaday.com/2018/02/19/predicting-starmans-return-to-earth/

A secret on the ocean floor http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining

What to do when tech jobs go bad https://medium.com/@xevix/what-to-do-when-tech-jobs-go-bad-93e631a1bdc9

A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7a5k/hacker-wipes-spyware-retina-x-flexispy

Last Week at Wellesley http://alicedreger.com/Wellesley

In our eyes, Google’s software sees heart attack risk https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/02/19/google-used-artificial-intelligence-to-predict-heart-attacks-with-the-human-eye

Rust things I miss in C https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/rust-things-i-miss-in-c.html

How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech? https://www.economist.com/news/business/21737075-silicon-valley-may-not-hold-its-global-superiority-much-longer-how-does-chinese-tech

Whistleblower alleges manipulation in the VIX fear gauge https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/whistleblower-alleges-manipulation-in-the-vix-fear-gauge-urges-regulators-to-investigate.html

Gall’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_law

Apple Park employees reportedly smacking into new headquarters’ glass walls https://sf.curbed.com/2018/2/16/17021218/apple-park-employees-glass-walls-hitting

Why are there both sharps and flats? https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/67046/why-are-there-both-sharps-and-flats

Pawnee Eagle Corn Thought to Be Extinct Revived https://truewestmagazine.com/keepers-of-the-seed/

Show HN: Hey Meta – Quickly check, improve and generate your website’s meta tags http://www.heymeta.com

San Francisco Spends $30M Cleaning Feces, Drug Needles https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Diseased-Streets-472430013.html

Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-facebook/facebook-plans-to-use-u-s-mail-to-verify-ids-of-election-ad-buyers-idUSKCN1G10VD

An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2018 https://medium.com/welldone-software/an-overview-of-javascript-testing-in-2018-f68950900bc3

Chrome 64 now trims messy links when you share them https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17029162/google-chrome-64-link-trim-feature

South Korean Cryptocurrency Regulator Found Dead at Home https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korean-cryptocurrency-regulator-found-dead-at-home-1519093020

HomePod Teardown https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HomePod++Teardown/103133

Google’s new AI algorithm predicts heart disease by looking at your eyes https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/2/19/17027902/google-verily-ai-algorithm-eye-scan-heart-disease-cardiovascular-risk

Asm-dom-boilerplate: WebAssembly C++ apps without configuration https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom-boilerplate

The Natural Rate of Interest Is Zero (2004) [pdf] http://www.cfeps.org/pubs/wp-pdf/WP37-MoslerForstater.pdf

We’re witnessing the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in at least 1,500 years https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/12/16767152/arctic-sea-ice-extent-chart

Caring for our toddler, Finnish-style https://blog.steve.fi/how_we_care_for_our_child.html

FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis https://medium.com/@lukegorman97/flightsimlabs-alleged-malware-analysis-1427c4d23368

Intel Rolls Out New 3D NAND SSDs – InsideHPC https://insidehpc.com/2018/02/intel-rolls-new-3d-nand-ssds/

Easy steps to modernize your C++ code http://cppdepend.com/blog/?p=395

xkcd’s 2018 CVE List https://xkcd.com/1957/

Copy of Declaration of Independence survived Civil War hidden behind wallpaper http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-rare-copy-declaration-of-independence-20180218-story.html

Show HN: A small symbolic math command line using algebrite and katex https://bwasti.com/math

E-Waste recycling innovator faces prison for trying to extend life span of PCs https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15/eric-lundgren-e-waste-recycling-innovator-faces-prison-for-trying-to-extend-lifespan-of-pcs/

Super Seducer: A game to teach state-of-the-art seduction secrets http://store.steampowered.com/app/695920/Super_Seducer/

5 Insanely Important Jobs (We’re Running Out of People For) http://www.cracked.com/article_25132_5-insanely-important-jobs-were-running-out-people-for.html

Bitcoin thieves threaten real violence for virtual currencies https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/19/bitcoin-thieves-threaten-real-violence-for-virtual-currencies.html

KDE receives 200,000 USD-donation from the Pineapple Fund https://dot.kde.org/2018/02/19/kde-receives-200000-usd-donation-pineapple-fund

Zero Tolerance for Slow Pace – Specific Steps for Rapid Development https://betterhumans.coach.me/zero-tolerance-for-slow-pace-specific-steps-for-aggressively-fast-software-development-8f81f5c6ba00

Show HN: I made a HN for the cryptocurrency space http://www.bitcombinator.io

Ancient Roman “Gate to Hell” Killed Victims with This Deadly Lake https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-roman-gate-to-hell-plutonium-sacrifice-killed-carbon-dioxide

As electric cars surge, gas engines just keep getting better https://www.wired.com/story/internal-combustion-engine-technology-argonne/

Show HN: Geometric patterns in Rust, with a WASM demo https://suy.io/geopattern/

Microsoft accidentally reveals Windows 10 on ARM limitations https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17027026/microsoft-windows-10-on-arm-apps-games-limitations-support

Why Can’t Riding Bikes in America Just Be Normal? https://www.outsideonline.com/2281721/why-cant-riding-bikes-america-just-be-normal

Performance-driven culture is ruining scientific research https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/feb/16/performance-driven-culture-is-ruining-scientific-research

Why I Don’t Like Golang (2016) https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/why-i-dont-like-go.html

Thinking Critically About Social Justice http://quillette.com/2018/02/17/thinking-critically-social-justice/

Please, do not install every shit https://juffalow.com/javascript/please-do-not-install-every-shit