hackerNews

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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders (www.lucaiaconistewart.com)

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Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan (www.bbc.com)

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H.266/VVC Standard Finalized with ~50% Lower Size Compared to H.265 (newsletter.fraunhofer.de)

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Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory (asia.nikkei.com)

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Harvard announces all course instruction will be taught online next year (www.fas.harvard.edu)

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Two Young Scientists Built a $250m Business Using Yeast to Clean Up Wastewater (www.forbes.com)

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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips (fossi-foundation.org)

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Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel (www.insentricity.com)

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Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines (www.mail-archive.com)

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My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards (thehustle.co)

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US online grocery sales hit record $7.2B in June (techcrunch.com)

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Palantir Has Filed for IPO (www.businesswire.com)

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A terrible, horrible, no-good, bad day at Slack (slack.engineering)

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Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked (markosaric.com)

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TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong (www.axios.com)

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Code only says what it does (brooker.co.za)

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No, Dopamine Is Not Addictive (2017) (www.psychologytoday.com)

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ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online courses in Fall 2020 (www.ice.gov)

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I made a macro keypad with 3D-printed switches (incoherency.co.uk)

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An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (lars.hupel.info)

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Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results? (theorangeduck.com)

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Exciting Days for ARM Processors (smist08.wordpress.com)

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The machine learning community has a toxicity problem (www.reddit.com)

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Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10B deal (www.cnbc.com)

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U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok (www.reuters.com)

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You’re Not Just Imagining It. Your Job Is Absolute BS (www.bloomberg.com)

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M60 – Open-Source USB&BLE, Hot-Swappable Mechanical Keyboard Powered by Python (makerdiary.com)

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Autodesk and coal mining (autodesk.earth)

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TikTok ban being investigated in Australia (7news.com.au)

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The Faces of Microsoft (2017) (www.typemag.org)

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Building Domain Driven Microservices (medium.com)

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Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts (www.theguardian.com)

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Academic Acceleration Has No Negative Effects on Psychological Well-Being (psycnet.apa.org)

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Scann: Scalable Nearest Neighbors (github.com)

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H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S. (www.mercurynews.com)

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Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood (www.balena.io)

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Job interviews don't work (fs.blog)

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The Fed now owns Walmart's debt (www.cnn.com)

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From the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy (sariazout.substack.com)

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Where $521B in U.S. Small-Business Aid Went (www.bloomberg.com)

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Against Testing (flak.tedunangst.com)

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Abusing linear regression to make a point (www.goodmath.org)

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Electronic Whole Earth Catalog (archive.org)

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NetBSD Internals (www.netbsd.org)

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ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US (www.theverge.com)

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ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country If Their Schools Are Online-Only (www.motherjones.com)

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Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives (www.nature.com)

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Ubiquiti Video Products: End of Life Announcement (community.ui.com)

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Building a CT Scan Covid-19 Classifier Using PyTorch (blog.paperspace.com)

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It's Talos all the way down (www.talospace.com)

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No one is safe in Hong Kong anymore. Leave when you still can (hongkongfp.com)

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How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands (www.newyorker.com)

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Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server (jewjewjew.com)

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LIVR: Language Independent Validation Rules (livr-spec.org)

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Seven year coronavirus trail from mine deaths to a Wuhan lab (www.thetimes.co.uk)

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Using Babel transforms to inject analytics code at build time (heap.io)

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ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite (www.forbes.com)

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Microsoft interested in buying Warner Bros' gaming unit (www.reuters.com)

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Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems (www.gwern.net)

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Implementing Ishido in Racket (alex-hhh.github.io)

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The Super Duper Universal Binary (tenfourfox.blogspot.com)

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Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App (www.vice.com)

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Weird Constants in Math Problems (blog.plover.com)

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Nuclear energy is in fact better than renewables (for us and the environment) (www.reddit.com)

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Apple Removing Support for AMD GPUs in macOS Arm64 (twitter.com)

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Luxonis wants to use computer vision to protect cyclists (www.siliconrepublic.com)

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Us online tuition move hits foreign visas (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Google, Facebook, Twitter halt govt data requests after Hong Kong security law (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: How Blog/side projects helped you land a job (item?id=23755551)

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How People Learn – The Brain Basics (iuliangulea.com)

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The long history of drinking games (www.historytoday.com)

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Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes (arxiv.org)

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Wearable Sensors: A call to action for remote patient monitoring and assessment (www.frontiersin.org)

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Blender green screen VFX of incredible detail – made by a single person (twitter.com)

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The US is 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps (www.cnn.com)

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Algorithms Are Now Commodities (shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)

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The Classic Typewriter Page (site.xavier.edu)

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Palantir announces confidential draft S-1 (www.businesswire.com)

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Defund Facial Recognition Before It's Too Late (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: What's the most time-consuming part of your job as freelance developer? (item?id=23746419)

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If Apple cares so much about privacy, why does it approve clipboard snoopers? (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Essential life skills to function as a human being? (item?id=23757396)

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Go vs. C#: Compiler, Runtime, Type System, Modules (medium.com)

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Halt and Catch Fire (en.wikipedia.org)

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Mastering Bitcoin - by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (github.com)

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When a deleted file takes 20 mins from your maintenance, but a year of your life (www.theregister.com)

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At the Type Archive (www.lrb.co.uk)

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America and China Are Entering the Dark Forest (www.bloomberg.com)

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Achaemenid Shields Are a Puzzle (bookandsword.com)

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Some Canadian businesses want to let Americans back in. Most Canadians don’t (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A Brief History of the Lawn Chair (www.valetmag.com)

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Should we treat data as labor? (2018) (www.aeaweb.org)

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The limits of color awareness during active, real-world vision (www.pnas.org)

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Australia to seal off 6.6M people in virus-hit state as outbreak worsens (www.cnn.com)

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Looted skulls and human remains are being sold in black markets on Facebook (www.livescience.com)

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Silicon Valley VC says Ghislaine Maxwell attended an investor party in 2011 (www.businessinsider.com)

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Is anyone watching Quibi? (www.vulture.com)

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Jesus Christ was also misunderstood, Masayoshi Son tells investors (www.ft.com)

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Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (theworthyhouse.com)

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Ron Graham has left us (en.wikipedia.org)

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Reddit promises to stop accessing user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14 (9to5mac.com)

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The rest of the Lenna story (the standard imaging photo) (lenna.org)

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ICE: Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Colleges Go Online-Only in Fall (www.npr.org)

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DNA revealed the woolly mammoth's fate – and what it teaches us today (www.weforum.org)

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Pylance Is a New Python Language Server for Visual Studio Code (www.infoq.com)

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How are you using Huggin? (item?id=23756958)

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Make a vaccine? I'm trying to teach my kids the alphabet (www.reuters.com)

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Chinese Research Papers Raise Doubts, Scientific Integrity Questioned (www.wsj.com)

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Jordan Pier's vintage electronics repair YouTube channel deleted (youtu.be)

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Ask HN: Career growth – when to stop climbing, am I at my upward movement limit? (item?id=23753779)

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Crash-Only Software: More Than Meets the Eye (2006) (lwn.net)

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Show HN: Serverless URL shortener made using Python and AWS (github.com)

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Lawmakers secured millions in PPP loans (www.politico.com)

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AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified over 100 Politicians as Criminals (threatpost.com)

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Learn Programming Concepts Not Languages (remotedevdaily.com)

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