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Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
(theinternetbytes.com)
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Zettlr 1.7 FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
(www.zettlr.com)
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A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web
(toffelblog.xyz)
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Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing
(item?id=23725734)
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2+1=4, by quinoa
(www.efavdb.com)
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Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking
(uk.reuters.com)
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Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
(monokh.com)
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Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?
(item?id=23711942)
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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image
(www.openculture.com)
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Canadian scuba divers find prehistoric industrial complex under water in Mexico
(nationalpost.com)
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Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel
(www.thedrive.com)
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GPT-3 Creative Fiction
(www.gwern.net)
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Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf]
(www.ams.org)
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Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?
(item?id=23722680)
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Sphere Eversion
(rreusser.github.io)
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Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism
(theconversation.com)
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QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era
(www.qb64.org)
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Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system
(www.orgroam.com)
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Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections
(theojulienne.io)
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The mystery of hundreds of dead elephants
(www.bbc.com)
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The Walkman, Forty Years On
(www.newyorker.com)
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Show HN: The Book of Modding
(thebookofmodding.ml)
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TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data
(ai.facebook.com)
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A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Photo Requests from Solitary
(photorequestsfromsolitary.org)
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Göbekli Tepe
(en.wikipedia.org)
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'Cronk rules everything around me': lost beverage resurrected after 120 years
(www.theguardian.com)
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Colleges Face Rising Revolt by Professors
(www.nytimes.com)
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The Silence Is Deafening
(devonzuegel.com)
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The Dying Mall’s New Lease on Life: Apartments
(www.bloomberg.com)
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“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)
(www.antipope.org)
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Extracting video and audio from used police body cam
(twitter.com)
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It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning
(www.theamericanconservative.com)
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Differential privacy tools from MS Research and Harvard
(blogs.microsoft.com)
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LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation
(www.caltech.edu)
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Queues are Databases (1995)
(arxiv.org)
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The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?
(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors
(www.wired.com)
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The Millennium Falcon (2016)
(kitbashed.com)
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Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution
(www.theregister.com)
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Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism
(warontherocks.com)
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Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]
(metamodular.com)
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]
(www.gwern.net)
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YouTube Takes Down Chess Podcast for Being Harmful or Dangerous
(www.youtube.com)
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CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks
(arxiv.org)
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Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform
(livablesoftware.com)
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Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11
(www.phoronix.com)
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Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles
(blog.janestreet.com)
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Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style
(able.bio)
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Show HN: Dyna-Kinematics – A 2D physics simulator with some unique features
(github.com)
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Learn to Create and Flex Flexagons
(loki3.com)
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There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016)
(joshsharp.com.au)
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Neural supersampling for real-time rendering
(research.fb.com)
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Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
(www.vox.com)
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Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine
(www.atlasobscura.com)
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Open letter calling for the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
(defend.wikileaks.org)
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief
(www.bbc.com)
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The Classic Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster
(automaticbeyondbelief.com)
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Why do electron shells have set limits?
(www.madsci.org)
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American businesses have the power to change China’s behavior
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Tellina: Translate natural language into bash commands (built with TensorFlow)
(http://www.tellina.rocks)
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The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neandertals
(www.biorxiv.org)
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CanaryTrap Method Identifies 16 Facebook Apps Guilty of Data Misuse
(sensorstechforum.com)
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In defense of hiring based on side projects
(diff.substack.com)
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Show HN: WebAssembly System Interface for Deno has been merged into Deno
(deno.land)
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A practical case on why we need the humanities
(acoup.blog)
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Dad horrified at £4,642 gaming app bill
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Is This a Turing Machine?
(lambdaway.free.fr)
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Ask HN: Good Resources on Voice Encryption?
(item?id=23712006)
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Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine Cut Death Rate Significantly
(www.henryford.com)
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Tench: When data is messy
(aiweirdness.com)
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Scientists observe light acting like a river
(www.sciencealert.com)
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Three artists on the future of the gallery system
(www.thenation.com)
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Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?
(item?id=23725888)
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GPT-3 can nearly pass a phone screen
(twitter.com)
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Vue 3: mid 2020 status update
(github.com)
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Coronavirus revealed the unexpected strengths of Germany’s model of government
(www.newstatesman.com)
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Moon's Mark Down
(users.rcn.com)
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BMW wants to sell subscriptions to in-car features
(www.engadget.com)
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Ask HN: FB suggests friends after visiting same city, don't use FB phone. How?
(item?id=23723154)
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What's wrong with WhatsApp
(www.theguardian.com)
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Colleges Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racist Social Media Posts Emerge
(www.nytimes.com)
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Tesla becomes manufacturing partner for biotech firm working on C-19 vaccine
(electrek.co)
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From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of the spacesuit in photos
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?
(item?id=23727636)
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LinkedIn copies clipboard on each keystroke
(twitter.com)
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Everything I Knew about Reading was Wrong
(hackernoon.com)
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Did Mexico just make it *illegal* to install Linux?
(mobile.twitter.com)
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Influencer culture should be burnt to the ground
(webworm.substack.com)
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Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin in Patients with Covid-19
(www.ijidonline.com)
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Crab Command and Control
(www.hakaimagazine.com)
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PEP8: Requiring English Is White Supremacy
(www.mail-archive.com)
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Linus Torvalds on Diversity, Longevity, Rust, and ARM Chips
(thenewstack.io)
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Ask HN: Good posts/resources on how user data is sold?
(item?id=23729774)
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Why so many billionaires are fleeing to Teton County, Wyoming
(nypost.com)
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Covid Lockdown versus Economy Was Always False Trade-Off
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Is It Ethical to Use Nootropics to Improve Cognitive Skills?
(www.psychologytoday.com)
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Persuasion: A Free Society Is Worth Fighting For
(www.persuasion.community)
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Building a Home Network with Podman
(www.ldelossa.is)
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Scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more
(www.sciencemag.org)
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Why the next Olympics should include Fortnite
(www.economist.com)
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Ask HN: With most people working from home, what is your daily schedule now?
(item?id=23729442)
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Show HN: Introspect - Python OODB Web CMS built on UNIX
(bitbucket.org)
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Faster Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
(arxiv.org)
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As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘An Enemy Within’
(www.nytimes.com)
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Most People with Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?
(www.nytimes.com)
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Understanding Local Interface Design in Go
(github.com)
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Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear
(abcnews.go.com)
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Investigation into EU institutions’ use of Microsoft products and services
(edps.europa.eu)
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There’s a War Going on over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page
(theintercept.com)
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Build Powerful Interactive WebRTC DataChannel Applications with Action and Event
(antmedia.io)
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