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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com)

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Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around (www.economist.com)

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Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last (www.sciencemag.org)

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Gitlab: Tech Stack (about.gitlab.com)

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Show HN: Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes (github.com)

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Node.js v15.0.0 Is Here (nodejs.medium.com)

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Electoral College Decision Tree (observablehq.com)

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Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping (www.latimes.com)

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I Hired 7 Freelancers to Exploit This Weird Vulnerability (sophron.github.io)

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Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software (labcodes.com.br)

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The Right to Read (1997) (www.gnu.org)

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Four Features That Justify a New Unix Shell (www.oilshell.org)

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My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure (github.com)

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Better Than JSON? (wiki.alopex.li)

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Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System (www.amazon.com)

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War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019) (acoup.blog)

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How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers (www.moritz.systems)

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Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training (sergeykish.com)

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The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it (www.forbes.com)

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Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests (www.livescience.com)

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On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox (ruzkuku.com)

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Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take (ariyh.substack.com)

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Master of Magic (www.filfre.net)

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Show HN: A faster way to prototype your APIs using OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI (github.com)

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Boswell's Life of Johnson (fantasticanachronism.com)

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Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser (hubs.mozilla.com)

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Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN (wzrd.ai)

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Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year (cointelegraph.com)

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Don't Use VPN Services (2016) (gist.github.com)

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TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds (github.com)

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Row scrolling for parallax effects in Street Fighters 2 (sf2platinum.wordpress.com)

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The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; it is a moral crisis (www.pairagraph.com)

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LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019) (andregarzia.com)

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Palo Alto Tiny Basic in the Browser (troypress.com)

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Show HN: LaunchSong – A platform for artists to promote their music (http://www.launchsong.com)

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Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil (blog.trailofbits.com)

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Six Tips to Ace a SQL Interview (product.hubspot.com)

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The Age of Scurvy (2017) (www.sciencehistory.org)

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Time Gun – Maps (www.edinphoto.org.uk)

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It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars (phys.org)

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Gravimetric Radar: Gravity-Based Detection of a Point-Mass Moving in Static Back (arxiv.org)

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An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued (www.theverge.com)

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Rejuvenating Autoconf (lwn.net)

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Gig Workers' Only Chance to Pee Is Apparently an App (www.vice.com)

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Create React App 4.0 (github.com)

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Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (www.zainrizvi.io)

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Twitter early release v2 API conversation tree example (github.com)

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Windows 10 Forced Restarts (www.extremetech.com)

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Researchers provide most complete record yet of Earth's last magnetic reversal (phys.org)

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6 Enormous Hot-Dog-Shaped Vehicles Travel America Spreading Brand Awareness& Joy (www.nytimes.com)

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Ad-blocker extension caught stealing user data and-accessing accounts (arstechnica.com)

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Illuminated Mercedes-Benz badge can cause power steering failure (www.thedrive.com)

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How the Bankruptcy Code Protects Lenders and Harms Student Debtors (abovethelaw.com)

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Charges: Boogaloo Bois fired on Minneapolis precinct in Floyd protests (www.startribune.com)

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Deprecating SHA1 (mailarchive.ietf.org)

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A Ring of Content-Marketers Submitting Disguised Paid Posts to HN/Reddit (twitter.com)

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SEC just paid a record $114M to a whistleblower (www.cnn.com)

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Understanding static single assignment forms (blog.yossarian.net)

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Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply (spectrum.ieee.org)

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In Love with the Louvre (www.newyorker.com)

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Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people' (www.dw.com)

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Harvard/Stanford/MIT Researchers Find Secret to Success, and It's Not Talent (www.inc.com)

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Amazon Inexplicably Removes Apple Card from Payment Options (www.macrumors.com)

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Tesla Begins “Full Self Driving” Public Beta as Waymo and Cruise Go Unattended (hackaday.com)

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Happy Endings Could Mess Up Your Brain's Decision-Making, Study Says (www.sciencetimes.com)

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Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting (www.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: How do you cope with mental illness as a founder and/or employee? (item?id=24874395)

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Fukushima reactor water could damage human DNA if released, says Greenpeace (www.theguardian.com)

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75 Minutes of Cruise's Autonomous Driving with Kyle Vogt and Sam Altman (www.youtube.com)

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Edward Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia (www.theguardian.com)

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Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code (github.com)

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CSS Spider – fast and easy way to check, copy and edit CSS (cssspider.fresalabs.com)

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A Brief History of Surgeons (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Ask HN: What are the best computing resources for children? (item?id=24872672)

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Harmful language in the RIAA's DMCA against YouTube-dl (datahorde.org)

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Building your app cross-platform can be dangerous, especially for startups (adebayoiji.medium.com)

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How to Setup FTP Server with Vsftpd on Raspberry Pi (linuxize.com)

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Show HN: Landmark Papers in Machine Learning (github.com)

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Monorepo Is a Bad Idea (medium.com)

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Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-Pocalyptic Predictions (cei.org)

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Ice Age Farmer Discord has been terminated due to “Spreading Misinformation.” (twitter.com)

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Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager Are Going Away (support.google.com)

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Unicorn Market Cap and Industry Towns, 2020 (blog.eladgil.com)

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Debugging async generator errors in Rust (meltware.com)

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Expensify CEO implores customers to vote for Biden (www.fastcompany.com)

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Fixing the D3-zoom API for my use-case (blog.scottlogic.com)

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Fossilized Footprints (www.nps.gov)

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