hackerNews

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Apple doesn’t seem to care about top-grossing scams on the App Store (twitter.com)

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Deno 1.9 - native http2, blob URL, import completion and huge performance boost (deno.com)

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US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine (www.bbc.co.uk)

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My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable (davesullivan.is)

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School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired (www.cbc.ca)

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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment (blog.system76.com)

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4

1Password Secrets Automation (blog.1password.com)

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Show HN: Deephn.org full-text search 30M Hacker News posts AND linked web pages (https://deephn.org)

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The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC (vivaldi.com)

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Surface Laptop 4 (blogs.windows.com)

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‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite (www.vice.com)

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FreeBSD 13.0 (www.freebsd.org)

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Discord to block all access to NSFW servers via iOS app (support.discord.com)

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WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal (www.androidpolice.com)

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Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities (www.justice.gov)

210 points first seen 2021041412 last seen 2021041415 94 comments

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The True Meaning of Technical Debt (refactoring.fm)

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6

Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices (ieftimov.com)

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How many device can you connect to I2C Bus? (www.bluedot.space)

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25

Update on beta testing payments in Signal (signal.org)

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Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins (www.lesswrong.com)

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5

Marbles (2016) (www.erasmatazz.com)

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Is content moderation a dead end? (www.ben-evans.com)

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What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (www.talyarkoni.org)

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5

The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years (fermatslibrary.com)

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Figma: Changes to free plan (help.figma.com)

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Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power (theintercept.com)

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In Python, `[0xfor x in (1, 2, 3)]` returns `[15]` (twitter.com)

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Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for (2014) (www.youtube.com)

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Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way (rickcarlino.com)

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Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84% (www.cidrap.umn.edu)

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We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption (2018) [pdf] (svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de)

90 points first seen 2021041400 last seen 2021041415 15 comments

0

Rust is for Professionals (gregoryszorc.com)

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FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge (www.theregister.com)

89 points first seen 2021041415 last seen 2021041415 49 comments

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Dvorak vs Colemak (2010-2020) (xahlee.info)

77 points first seen 2021041403 last seen 2021041415 146 comments

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Black Girls Code (www.blackgirlscode.com)

75 points first seen 2021041406 last seen 2021041409 48 comments

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Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data (www.bbc.com)

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Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network (github.com)

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New York Times tech workers form a union (www.nytimes.com)

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25

Exploring the Kubernetes API with Curl (blog.tilt.dev)

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0

“It's Not Cancel Culture – It's a Platform Failure.” (warzel.substack.com)

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Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic (www.thelancet.com)

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How Iraq’s crystal meth epidemic is ravaging the nation (www.independent.co.uk)

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AWS EC2 Having Issues (status.aws.amazon.com)

59 points first seen 2021041409 last seen 2021041412 43 comments

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The complete guide to working with strings in modern JavaScript (www.baseclass.io)

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Signal Founder May Have Been More Than a Tech Adviser to MobileCoin (www.coindesk.com)

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The latest DSM update makes btrfs drives unavailable on budget Synology models (community.synology.com)

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Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't (www.salon.com)

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NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures (www.theregister.com)

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Submarine Sleepovers (aimmuseum.org)

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FOVO: A new 3D rendering technique based on human vision (www.gamasutra.com)

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Latency Comparison: DynamoDB vs. FaunaDB vs. Redis (news-app-two-omega.vercel.app)

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Writing Notes by Hand Might Not Be Better Than Typing (2019) (blog.library.tc.columbia.edu)

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Apple's next online-only launch will be April 20, upgraded iPads on tap (www.cnet.com)

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Egypt seizes the Ever Given, demanding $1B for Suez Canal jam (www.washingtonpost.com)

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FreeBSD 13.0-Release Now Available (lists.freebsd.org)

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3Blue1Brown – How (and why) to raise e to the power of a matrix (www.youtube.com)

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Iran Says It Will Enrich Uranium to 60% (www.wsj.com)

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The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war (www.economist.com)

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EMU2: A simple text-mode x86 and DOS emulator (github.com)

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Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla's greatest industry contribution (www.techrepublic.com)

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Car Thing. Spotify’s new smart player designed for your drive (carthing.spotify.com)

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Huawei blames US for global chip supply crunch (asia.nikkei.com)

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Bitcoin Is a ‘Boon for Surveillance’, Says Former CIA Director (decrypt.co)

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Ask HN: What other news sources do you use? (item?id=26794248)

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Modelling a Wealth Tax Correctly (2020 response to PG Essay) (blog.nindalf.com)

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Brain drain and creeping authoritarianism in Russia’s techno-utopian village (restofworld.org)

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Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store (www.fastcompany.com)

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Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness motivation (playpulse.com)

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0

Show HN: Low-Code Internal Chrome Extension Builder (Developer Preview) (https://www.extension.dev)

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TIL you can make a C++ object smaller by adding a field (twitter.com)

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Bitcoin hits new all-time high above $63,000 ahead of Coinbase debut (www.cnbc.com)

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Discord will block NSFW servers on iOS (www.theverge.com)

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Discord for iOS will block users from accessing all NSFW servers (9to5mac.com)

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U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson and Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases (www.nytimes.com)

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Google Is Killing “Google Play Movies and TV” on Smart TVs (arstechnica.com)

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Bringing AI to the Edge with Nvidia GPUs (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Why Brave Disables FLoC (brave.com)

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Epic Games Complete $1B Funding Round to Support Vision for the Metaverse (www.epicgames.com)

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Rust shenanigans: return type polymorphism (loige.co)

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Key Perl Core developer Sawyer X quits (www.theregister.com)

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Spotting a $5M/year scam on the App Store (twitter.com)

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IAM Policies: Good, Bad and Ugly (www.stackery.io)

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Lip-Reading with Visemes and Machine Learning (www.unite.ai)

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Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program (venturebeat.com)

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A $1.2M Bank Error Buys a House, and an Arrest (www.nytimes.com)

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Egypt Seizes Ever Given Ship in Suez Canal, Demands Compensation (www.wsj.com)

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Elite philanthropy created vaccine apartheid (pluralistic.net)

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How Could an Officer Mistake a Gun for a Taser? (www.nytimes.com)

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When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated (www.cdc.gov)

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The Cult of Cryptopunks (techcrunch.com)

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Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes (twitter.com)

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Developer experience is the next major competitive front in enterprise tech (www.protocol.com)

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Coinbase gets reference price of $250 per share (www.cnbc.com)

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Global Climate Report – March 2021 (www.ncdc.noaa.gov)

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0

Kissinger Death Tontine (henrykissinger.rip)

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U.S. calls for pause on Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine (www.reuters.com)

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OneWeb and Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellites came within 60m of crash (www.thetimes.co.uk)

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Boba shortage: the U.S. may soon have no bubbles for tea (www.sfchronicle.com)

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0

Show HN: Realsense-Rust – Streaming Intel RealSense from Rust (gitlab.com)

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The Mundell Difference (voxeu.org)

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Feds recommend pausing J&J vaccine over blood clotting concerns (www.politico.com)

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0

Room temperature superconductivity at 1 ATM for 7 days (arxiv.org)

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0

Create an anonymous link that will hide the HTTP Referer header (href.li)

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Google wants to store your health data (reclaimthenet.org)

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An easy to use MTP implementation for your next embedded Linux project (www.collabora.com)

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Certifying Multimedia News Content for Fake News Defense (arxiv.org)

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Swedish prosecutor says Russia's GRU hacked Sweden's sports body (www.reuters.com)

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The First AI-Based Robot Weed Killer (carbonrobotics.com)

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DevLog: SSH Authentication via OAuth2 (containerssh.io)

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Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (Rails) (Remote, PST-Ish) (www.ycombinator.com)

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