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Apple Archive (www.applearchive.org)

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BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next (theconversation.com)

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EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games (nobsgames.stavros.io)

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Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels quickly with just SQL (github.com)

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JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95 (www.theguardian.com)

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Back pain is a problem which is badly treated (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable (asadmemon.com)

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What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips (payup.wtf)

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How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” (medium.com)

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Adult Site Leaks Extremely Sensitive Data of Cam Models (www.vpnmentor.com)

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Rotten Stem: How Technology Corrupts Education (americanaffairsjournal.org)

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Autocomplete as an Interface (www.benkuhn.net)

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Progress of anti-aging therapies by clinical trial stage (www.lifespan.io)

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Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted? (item?id=22053605)

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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy (www.nature.com)

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Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US (asia.nikkei.com)

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Ways of Implementing a System Call (x86.lol)

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Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It (www.bloomberg.com)

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Parachuting for charity costs 13.75 times more money for the NHS than it raises (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 (blogs.microsoft.com)

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Why Amsterdam’s Canal Houses Have Endured for 300 Years (www.citylab.com)

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GNU Guile 3.0.0 Released (www.gnu.org)

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Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (www.newyorker.com)

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My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0 (www.mulle-kybernetik.com)

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A Guide to Minimalist Web Design (2017) (ismailelazizi.com)

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Vulkan 1.2 (www.khronos.org)

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Factor: A Practical Stack Languge (factorcode.org)

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Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails (pganalyze.com)

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How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online (www.theverge.com)

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Reformer: The Efficient Transformer (ai.googleblog.com)

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Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain (www.nyu.edu)

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A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change (medium.com)

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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done (www.teslarati.com)

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A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly (blog.mozilla.org)

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U.S. Torpedoes Did Not Work for Months After Pearl Harbor (www.historynet.com)

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Records Come to Java (blogs.oracle.com)

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Show HN: Darken – Darkmode Made Easy (github.com)

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Exploiting the Windows Cryptoapi Vulnerability (blog.trailofbits.com)

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Mistakes were made: ERP screwups (tedium.co)

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Animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019 (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Chatistics – Turn Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger Chatlogs to DataFrames (masterscrat.github.io)

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Show HN: Generative art with ant colony optimization algorithms (amydyer.art)

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Toronto is surveillance capitalism’s new frontier (torontolife.com)

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Caltrain Vibration and Volatility Analysis (www.nathanblack.me)

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Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete (www.eurekalert.org)

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Gitlab Switching CDN's (Fastly – CloudFlare) (about.gitlab.com)

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Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable (www.bbc.com)

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The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare (newrepublic.com)

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Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a bad idea (0day.work)

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Time-Lock Encryption (2011) (www.gwern.net)

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NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework (www.nist.gov)

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FCC’s Approval of SpaceX’s Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Berkeley's $5M Glitch (www.insidehighered.com)

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VCs Are Just Tired (techcrunch.com)

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Google Reaches 1T in market value (www.wsj.com)

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eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed (www.adelaide.edu.au)

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The 'Spelling Bee Honeycomb' puzzle: efficient computation in R (varianceexplained.org)

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Letting tools make choices (www.jackfranklin.co.uk)

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Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox (m.nautil.us)

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Ask HN: I need advice on my first B2B SaaS startup (item?id=22064364)

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Show HN: SQLSite – serve simple websites, APIs and files directly from SQLite (github.com)

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Private equity firm wants to buy .org for $1B. Berkeley-based coop:‘not so fast’ (www.berkeleyside.com)

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Aging interventions from older publications that deserve a new look (srconstantin.posthaven.com)

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Automated Testing and Profiling for Call of Duty [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Self-Protecting Projects (amihaiemil.com)

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Rich People Don’t Just Live Longer. They Also Get More Healthy Years (www.nytimes.com)

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GNU Guile 3.0.0 (lists.gnu.org)

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Georgia election server showed signs of tampering (apnews.com)

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KnowledgeNet: A Benchmark for Knowledge Base Population (blog.diffbot.com)

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Ask HN: Will you stop Googling now, that it removed URLs and added favicons? (item?id=22069597)

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I Stopped a Credit Card Thief from Ripping Off 3,537 People (www.freecodecamp.org)

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Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Supernova? (www.space.com)

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Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript (www.wix.engineering)

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Ask HN: Incorporate with Clerky vs. Atlas vs. Gust in 2020? (item?id=22070371)

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Microsoft Will Be Carbon Negative by 2030 (blogs.microsoft.com)

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Avicenna: The Leading Sage (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browser execution engines (dev.to)

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Student debt is over $1.6T and hardly anyone is paying down their loans (www.cnbc.com)

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The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI (weleakinfo.com)

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15 Sweet Websites for Free Artwork (www.indiehackers.com)

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Dashcam’s Flawed Design Let Us Track Drivers in Real-Time Across the US (www.vice.com)

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Cache Is King: The Inevitability of L4 (www.nextplatform.com)

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Your Indie game dev team will fail (medium.com)

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Seattle Has Reached the Second and Terminal Stage of Gentrification (www.thestranger.com)

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Toward more reliable logging (2012) (lwn.net)

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Chinese ambassador warns Dutch government against restricting ASML supplies (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: Messaging App (https://www.ironnotice.com)

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YouTube ads of 100 top brands fund climate misinformation (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Packet.com with Drones, IoT, OpenFaaS and 5G, from CES (github.com)

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Why Russian and Chinese Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Understood (warontherocks.com)

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Google announces Premium Support for cloud customers starting at $12.5k/month (siliconangle.com)

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Google Reaches $1T in Value, Even as It Faces New Tests (www.nytimes.com)

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Microsoft’s Commitment to Sustainability (news.microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Cloudboost.io – open-source BaaS platform just like Firebase (https://cloudboost.io)

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Ask HN: Self publishing book vs. writing a blog series (item?id=22070568)

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FBI: Nation-state actors have breached two US municipalities (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Why did you quit your job(s)? (item?id=22063152)

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Why it is important to stick with goal-oriented people (xfuture-blog.netlify.com)

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The rise of digital brands using snail mail (2018) (www.vox.com)

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Streams and Tables in Kafka: Elasticity, Fault Tolerance and Advanced Concepts (www.confluent.io)

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What Are NVMe Disks and Why Should Your Server Use One? (medium.com)

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The Military Is Building Long-Range Facial Recognition That Works in the Dark (onezero.medium.com)

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Shrink Your Raspberry Pi 3 into a 40x25mm SoM (2019) (www.arducam.com)

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Rural Venezuela Crumbles as President Shores Up the Capital and His Power (www.nytimes.com)

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When Goodharting Is Optimal (www.lesswrong.com)

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Giant jet engines aim to make our flying greener (www.bbc.com)

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Ask HN: How to Work for Equity (item?id=22072056)

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Backlash over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties (jamanetwork.com)

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From Australia to Chile, a visualization of the distribution of wildfire smoke (graphics.reuters.com)

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The Power of Simple CRUD (volument.com)

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What the Heck Is a Tensor?? (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Library for building distributed WebSocket applications (github.com)

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Are 'tech collectives' or 'tech volunteers' a thing? If so, is there a list? (item?id=22068243)

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Huge ‘hot blob’ in Pacific Ocean killed nearly a million seabirds (www.theguardian.com)

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Artificial Personas and Public Discourse (www.schneier.com)

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Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults (www.sciencedaily.com)

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FBI Successfully Unlocks iPhone 11 Pro (www.macrumors.com)

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Easychair: CIA Covert Listening Devices (www.cryptomuseum.com)

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Show HN: Amz-SSH, a little binary to EC2 instance connect via bastion servers (github.com)

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Show HN: Spotlight Search for Actions (https://ctrlspace.app)

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Smoke-Testing Rust HTTP Clients (medium.com)

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Potassium-Driven Rechargeable Batteries (www.eurekalert.org)

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Stanford Robot Built from Pigeon Feathers (gizmodo.com)

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Sentinel Species (en.wikipedia.org)

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China to curb farming near rivers in push to reverse water pollution – official (www.reuters.com)

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Panorama Education (YC S13) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers in Boston (grnh.se)

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Clipboard Health (YC W17) Is Hiring Product Managers (Remote) (item?id=22070652)

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