hackerNews

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ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press (www.aclu.org)

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SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange (www.peeringdb.com)

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Blur Tools for Signal (signal.org)

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Software Engineering Within SpaceX (yasoob.me)

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In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed (gothamist.com)

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Millions of Americans Skipping Payments as Wave of Defaults and Evictions Looms (www.npr.org)

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Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: Explaining recent macro trends (voxeu.org)

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OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera (github.com)

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Weirdos in the depression (blog.plover.com)

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Android: Why this photo is bricking some phones (www.bbc.com)

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iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018) (neosmart.net)

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Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data (www.bloomberg.com)

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A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling (www.sciencemag.org)

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Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO (www.reuters.com)

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Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife (www.bloomberg.com)

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Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite (sqlite.org)

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Is a trillion-dollars worth of programming lying on the ground? (blog.cerebralab.com)

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Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page (https://hnblogs.substack.com)

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German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux (androidrookies.com)

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9

Show HN: Virus Cafe (Make a friend in 2 minutes) (https://virus.cafe)

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Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines (www.os2museum.com)

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How Much Do We Need the Police? (www.npr.org)

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20

Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees (www.theverge.com)

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The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle (www.dyson.co.uk)

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19

Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators (www.govtrades.com)

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Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus (venturebeat.com)

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7

Analytics Without Google (www.justbartek.ca)

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8

Workman Keyboard Layout (workmanlayout.org)

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Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders? (item?id=23404900)

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13

What the Hell Is a Deno? (breadth.substack.com)

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Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days (mashable.com)

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Show HN: Basic.css – Classless CSS Starter File (github.com)

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In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers (www.quantamagazine.org)

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10

Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams (https://www.squawk.to)

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Anders Tegnell on Sweden's (no)lockdown: “We still believe our strategy is good” (www.startribune.com)

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10

Unker Non-Linear Writing System (s.ai)

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14

Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS (2018) (cdm.link)

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Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg (news.yale.edu)

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8

The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads (www.adamjuliangoldstein.com)

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Hacking the Planet With Notcurses: A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics [pdf] (nick-black.com)

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F-117s had an air-to-air capability with secondary mission to shoot Soviet AWACS (theaviationist.com)

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IMAP Email Backup (smalldata.tech)

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Altair – A declarative statistical visualization library for Python (github.com)

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8

Zero Knowledge Proofs applied to Auctions [pdf] (courses.csail.mit.edu)

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12M People and 385 Covid Cases – The Amazingly Curious Case of Bangalore (www.thequint.com)

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Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs (medcitynews.com)

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Regulators May Punish Deutsche Bank for Its Jeffrey Epstein Ties (www.nytimes.com)

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51

The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (2014) (www.politico.com)

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How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business (thetechonomics.com)

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Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (stingingfly.org)

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12

J for C Programmers (www.jsoftware.com)

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Parcel and Rust: A WASM Romcom (dev.p.ota.to)

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Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture (phys.org)

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20

How to Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors (2011) (www.vis4.net)

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Automated Work Recordings with OBS Studio and TaskWarrior and TimeWarrior (cristian.io)

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Amazon is sued over warehouses after New York worker brings coronavirus home (www.reuters.com)

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A Fast, Cheap and Scary Way to Cool the Planet (www.bloomberg.com)

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Effect of bean origin and temperature on grinding roasted coffee (www.nature.com)

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Nand2Tetris Hack assembler implemented in Rust (github.com)

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22

Stranger Things, JavaScript Edition (livecodestream.dev)

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Esprit Board for Exploring ClojureScript on ESP32 Processors (www.tindie.com)

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0

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (pressfreedomtracker.us)

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10

GPT-3 and Scaling Trends (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

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A study out of thin air (www.medicineuncensored.com)

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Postmodernism and Its Impact (2017) (areomagazine.com)

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Why can't I sign in with Facebook anymore? (support.seatgeek.com)

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Ex-Enron CEO Skilling launching new digital marketplace for oil investors (uk.reuters.com)

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Shodan Dojo – Learning Shodan through katas (github.com)

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The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' What went wrong? (www.nytimes.com)

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Dirichlet Process Mixture Models in Pyro (pyro.ai)

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Paper Notes (2019) (macwright.org)

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Ancient DNA is offering clues to puzzle of Dead Sea scrolls, say experts (www.theguardian.com)

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SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund (www.reuters.com)

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Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after finding tweets incited violence (www.theverge.com)

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What I Did After Police Killed My Son (2014) (www.politico.com)

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Recognizing non-programming open source contributors (https://allcontributors.org)

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Why Elixir Is the Programming Language You Should Learn in 2020 (www.erlang-solutions.com)

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Linus rejects 'beyond stupid' AWS-made Linux patch (www.zdnet.com)

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26

Truth in Advertising (2016) (sagehill.net)

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25

Show HN: Jumpfiles – get more done with fewer keystrokes (github.com)

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The Pentagon’s hand-me-downs helped militarize police (arstechnica.com)

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Walnut Creek PD threatens to kill protesters (twitter.com)

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All 3 major telecoms in Canada will be working with Ericsson instead of Huawei (finance.yahoo.com)

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Show HN: WebGL-Based Cloth Simulation (playcanv.as)

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Amazon will no longer support the Echo Look, encourages owners to recycle theirs (www.theverge.com)

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US to ban passenger flights from China (www.bbc.com)

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0

Park Police denies tear gas on peaceful protesters. Evidence suggests otherwise (www.vox.com)

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Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps (techcrunch.com)

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29

The Fearless Invention of One of L.A.’S Greatest Poets (www.newyorker.com)

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iPhone looters find devices disabled, with a warning they’re being tracked (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Hacker News-like forums for other fields? (item?id=23402797)

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Rare miniature rock art found in Australia (arstechnica.com)

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Ulysses’ Yield (1999) (www.recordholders.org)

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Optical Baking: CO2 Laser Browning of Dough [pdf] (peterchencyc.com)

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Practicing empathy can teach us the value of diversity and inclusion in tech (medium.com)

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In Praise of Aphorisms (aeon.co)

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Ask HN: What tools/apps/etc. are out there in support of antiracism? (item?id=23404435)

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A16Z: The Talent X Opportunity Fund (a16z.com)

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Toki Pona – An attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words (en.wikipedia.org)

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Forget Dragon, the Falcon 9 rocket is the secret sauce of SpaceX’s success (arstechnica.com)

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SpaceX to launch 60 Starlink satellites for megaconstellation tonight (www.space.com)

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WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company (theguardian.com)

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Jesse Jackson: H1B Visas Hold Back Diversity in Tech Hiring (twitter.com)

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I can do all things through Postgres: Lessons for the Elixir programmer (medium.com)

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Foxit Reader update removes Print to PDF (forums.foxitsoftware.com)

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OWASP Open Security (open-security-summit.org)

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Automatic Golf Club Replaces Bag of Clubs (www.youtube.com)

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Firefox 77.0.1 released to prevent DDoSing DoH DNS providers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram based disposable mail (github.com)

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Read the transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s tense meeting with Facebook employees (www.vox.com)

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Ask HN: What is the future of communication tools/protocols? (item?id=23412374)

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VPC Peering in Google Cloud (medium.com)

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Terahertz Gap (en.wikipedia.org)

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Alarm mixed with glee as world is glued to U.S. protest coverage (www.politico.com)

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The Many Forms of FOSS Advocacy (www.fosslife.org)

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Lego Asks Stores to Stop Advertising Police, White House Sets (kotaku.com)

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Show HN: Chrome v83 enables JavaScript module support for SharedWorkers (medium.com)

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The Myth of the Racist Cop (2016) (www.wsj.com)

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CISA Releases First of Its Series of Six Cybersecurity Essentials Toolkits (informationsecurity.report)

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Useful Git commands for everyday use (medium.com)

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0

5 stupid simple things I learned by launching my first SaaS startup (medium.com)

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Stock Prices Can Rally When the Economy and Corporate Earnings Aren't (seekingalpha.com)

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TrueNAS isn’t abandoning BSD–but it is adopting Linux (arstechnica.com)

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Germany may have more immunological “dark matter” – World news – The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Sweden's chief epidemiologist admits to flaws in country’s coronavirus response (www.politico.eu)

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Google has removed that viral Chinese-app scanner from the Play Store (www.inputmag.com)

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Outside Plato's Cave episode 1 (outsideplatoscave.substack.com)

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3D printing tailor-made stents (www.csiro.au)

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Deepfakes Are Going to Wreak Havoc on Society. We Are Not Prepared (www.forbes.com)

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After a breach, users rarely change their passwords, study finds (www.zdnet.com)

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Resist the Urge to Simplify the Story (www.theatlantic.com)

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Microsoft, Amazon, & IBM express ‘solidarity.’ Should they end police contracts? (www.protocol.com)

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LRADs and Sound Cannons Are Not Safe. Here's How to Minimize Their Effects (www.youtube.com)

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0

Project C-90, an attempt to catalogue every cassette tape (www.c-90.org)

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Making the Advanced Protection Program and Titan Security Keys Easier to Use On (security.googleblog.com)

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Early Facebook Employees Disavow Zuckerberg’s Stance on Trump Posts (www.nytimes.com)

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Google and Walmart establish dominance in India’s mobile payments market (techcrunch.com)

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Hydroxychloroquine does not prevent Covid-19 infection if exposed, study says (www.statnews.com)

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I Just Heard That Monoliths Are the Future of Software Development (medium.com)

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Modal is hiring a Head of Operations (jobs.lever.co)

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Substack (YC W18) Is Hiring to Build a Better Business Model for Writing (jobs.lever.co)

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