hackerNews

6

Ennio Morricone has died (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves (www.theguardian.com)

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UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster (www.jeffgeerling.com)

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Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers from it (www.washingtonexaminer.com)

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China Suppression of Uighur Minorities Meets U.N. Definition of Genocide (www.npr.org)

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Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming (brython.info)

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I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua (github.com)

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Bible API (bible-api.com)

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Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal (www.bloomberg.com)

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Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users (www.theregister.com)

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Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (observer.com)

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5

Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust (www.codeslow.com)

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Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' (linux.slashdot.org)

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8

I Got My Attention Back (2017) (craigmod.com)

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4

A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time (carolchen.me)

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5

Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites (github.com)

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10

Rich Tables in the Terminal (github.com)

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15

Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company? (www.bloomberg.com)

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5

Apple Bringing Back Fun in Visual Design (applypixels.com)

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McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility (slate.com)

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The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law (ark-invest.com)

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9

Debubble (http://debubble.me)

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8

Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography (www.cryptologie.net)

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4

Ridiculous Math Problems (www.dam.brown.edu)

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5

Type to improvise Jazz music – JazzKeys, by Plan8 (jazzkeys.plan8.co)

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Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say current plan threatens lives (www.gpbnews.org)

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9

Rust for JavaScript Developers – Functions and Control Flow (www.sheshbabu.com)

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7

Everything I Know (1975) (www.bfi.org)

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21

Tell HN: Giving away my homebrew windmill (item?id=23737970)

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17

Dolphin Progress May and June 2020 (dolphin-emu.org)

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Formula 1 2020: The secret aerodynamicist – are capes the key? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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5

Black Death, Covid, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age (www.exurbe.com)

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14

Don't bet on the most likely winner (avoidboringpeople.substack.com)

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7

Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml (github.com)

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14

Rust on the ESP32 (2019) (mabez.dev)

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A Look into the Wild Economy of Tabletop Board Game Funding (www.npr.org)

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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (newpascal.org)

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Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine (github.com)

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7

CoreBGP – Plugging in to BGP (www.jordanwhited.com)

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Elements C++ GUI Library (github.com)

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Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in (discourse.julialang.org)

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15

Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

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7

A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath, Oj for Go (github.com)

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20

The Magnetic Universe Begins to Come into View (www.quantamagazine.org)

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19

Icdiff: Side-by-side highlighted command line diffs (www.jefftk.com)

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DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block (www.androidpolice.com)

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25

Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string (stackoverflow.com)

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Health Insurance Shouldn't Be Tied to Employers (www.nytimes.com)

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Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues (libregraphicsworld.org)

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Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids (datarevenue.com)

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Pythonicity: Contrarian View on Closing Files (coady.github.io)

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65

Choosing a Rust web framework (www.lpalmieri.com)

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50

4 Year Compensation Packages Comparison (www.levels.fyi)

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30

The Triplebyte data download doesn’t give you all your data (www.linestarve.com)

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Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees? (item?id=23746156)

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21

Walking Dream – single-player adventure game for the Oculus Quest (walkingdre.am)

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24

Show HN: Getting fit in virtual reality with open source and Godot (https://vrworkout.at)

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22

Show HN: A simple Poker API to calculate the winning hand/s (www.pokerapi.dev)

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26

Andrew Wilkinson and Tiny Capital Operating Manual (colinkeeley.com)

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23

The Purpose of Persuasion (www.persuasion.community)

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27

A Startup Is Testing the Subscription Model for Search Engines (www.wired.com)

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PurritoBin: Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin (github.com)

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Transport makes up only 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions from food (blog.yeticheese.com)

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Isetta (en.wikipedia.org)

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Taaalk (taaalk.co)

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The Car, Reinvented. From Scratch (mondaynote.com)

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Is the title of the Black Hat conf offensive? Google sec. researcher withdraws (www.zdnet.com)

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Baba Is Y'all (game.engineering.nyu.edu)

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If you're a techno-optimist, you should read the Unabomber Manifesto (www.roelpeters.be)

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LinkedIn, Reddit, GoogleNews and others caught spying on iPhone clipboards (www.phonearena.com)

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Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities (psycnet.apa.org)

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27

New revamped version of the AnyMeal recipe management software (www.wedesoft.de)

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Multiple Dispatch in Julia (opensourc.es)

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The world won't hit climate goals unless energy innovation rapidly accelerated (www.cnn.com)

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35

Poor Man's Cluster (www.regressionist.com)

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Daily Science Fiction (dailysciencefiction.com)

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‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists (voiceofaction.org)

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The American Soviet Mentality (www.tabletmag.com)

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Stop microwaving library books to kill coronavirus:RFID tags burn and catch fire (www.cnn.com)

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Self Organising WS2811 LEDs (blog.cmgresearch.com)

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Summary: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (hoanhan101.github.io)

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21

Harvesting Hydrogen from Nanogardens (phys.org)

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Is It Okay to Go to the Beach? (www.theatlantic.com)

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History of Egghead Software Stores (www.fundinguniverse.com)

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Hyaluronic acid does not hold a thousand times its weight in water (www.oumere.com)

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Covid-19 Treatment with Zinc Plus Low Dose Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin (www.preprints.org)

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239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne (nyti.ms)

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Epoxy: Interactive Model Iteration with Weak Supervision (github.com)

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UBC quietly changes references to Taiwan amid sensitive political climate (www.ubyssey.ca)

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Center for Computational Biology (ccb.berkeley.edu)

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The key points of Software Design X-Rays (understandlegacycode.com)

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Association of low to moderate alcohol drinking with better cognitive function (jamanetwork.com)

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Enhance your TensorFlow Lite deployment with Firebase (firebase.googleblog.com)

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Show HN: Open-source online speech recognition (github.com)

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43

First Timers Only (kentcdodds.com)

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Microsoft’s new x86 DataCenter class machines running Windows (2018) (www.anandtech.com)

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Call it the ‘boss tax:’ Seattle finally finds a potent way to tax the rich (www.seattletimes.com)

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JIT Compilers Are Implemented and Fast: Julia, PyPy, LuaJIT, Graal and More (carolchen.me)

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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down (www.nytimes.com)

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The Thought Emporium (www.thethoughtemporium.com)

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Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea (www.theguardian.com)

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Free Productivity Templates – by experienced project delivery manager (slidegame.io)

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59

I Simplified My Smartphone to Regain Control of My Life (medium.com)

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0

Voice, an invite-only social network where everyone is verified (https://voice.com)

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65

Fasting, Longevity and Metabolism (mehdiyacoubi.substack.com)

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How to process more than 350K requests per month free using 3 free ETA services (blog.maddevs.io)

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Deceptively Bright, in an Up and Coming Area (literaryreview.co.uk)

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65

Newsworthy: A lightning fast news aggregator with Material Design and no ads (https://newsworthy.to)

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50

Henrietta Lacks (en.wikipedia.org)

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70

Abstraction Laddering – An Easy, Effective Problem Framing Exercise (spin.atomicobject.com)

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52

ICBMs Still Matter (www.realcleardefense.com)

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90

Show HN: Mathematico – A mathematics tutorial every day for the whole summer (https://mathematico.org)

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61

Tesla to make molecule printers for German Covid-19 vaccine developer CureVac (www.reuters.com)

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0

Ask HN: What is the sqlite of graph databases? (item?id=23744449)

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0

We created a series of free videos to improve your tech public speaking skills (item?id=23739470)

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68

Bellagio sportsbook error may be largest past post loss in Vegas history (www.reviewjournal.com)

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89

CppCon When a Microsecond Is an Eternity:High Performance Trading Systems in C++ (youtu.be)

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70

We only had one photograph of the entire Earth–until 2015 (2018) (www.artsy.net)

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53

Lezer: An incremental parsing system for CodeMirror (lezer.codemirror.net)

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90

Ask HN: Nicks how often are they used these days? (item?id=23744120)

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78

What should we do about network-effect monopolies (www.benkuhn.net)

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0

Intel Engineer Explains Why Apple Switched to ARM (medium.com)

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66

Show HN: Find free Android apps without ads or in-app purchases (reallyfreeapps.appspot.com)

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0

Ask HN: Authors Said I Suck After I Made Some Reviews on Open Source Software (item?id=23746436)

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75

Ask HN: Can someone help me find this inventor? (item?id=23742122)

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74

Marketers Have Given Up on Context, and Our National Discourse Is Suffering (battellemedia.com)

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0

South Korea’s 16-Year Fight for a Green Onion Breakfast Cereal (www.nytimes.com)

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87

Solve problems more effectively by adopting a strategic mindset (www.sivv.io)

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0

PimEyes: Upload Your Photo and Find Where Your Face Image Appears Online (pimeyes.com)

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0

The instant rise and fall of Luckin Coffee (www.techinasia.com)

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Show HN: One stop platform to grow your career (www.theacoto.com)

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0

Xu Zhangrun, outspoken critic of Xi Jinping, detained by police in Beijing (www.theguardian.com)

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0

Dead Robots – Anki (medium.com)

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What a Better Social Network Would Look Like (onezero.medium.com)

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6 Rules for every technical founder to succeed in a startup (medium.com)

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0

Hardware Acceleration of Sparse and Irregular Tensor Computations of ML Models (arxiv.org)

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82

Population Based Training (leimao.github.io)

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0

Short-Selling Bans Around the World: Evidence from the 2007-09 Crisis (papers.ssrn.com)

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0

Experts with One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne (www.nytimes.com)

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55

GoThroughList – Setup Your CheckLists (gothroughlist.com)

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0

Nine properties of logarithm: theory and examples (mathvault.ca)

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0

Scientists say WHO ignores the risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol (www.msn.com)

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0

Steam Is Coming to Chromebooks with Ubuntu-Based “Borealis” Feature (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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79

(Source) Allies' Book of Checklists (docs.google.com)

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Covid-Like Virus Was Sent to Wuhan in 2013, Sunday Times Says (www.bloomberg.com)

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82

Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (en.wikipedia.org)

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0

Ask HN: What to do when nothing makes sense? (item?id=23745350)

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Uber/Postmates deal meant DoorDash pays nothing for consolidation in some market (www.theinformation.com)

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0

Forecasting Covid-19 deaths in Florida (github.com)

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4200 SaaS Business Ideas (www.jensbackbom.com)

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Learn about transaction isolation levels (lanraccoon.com)

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Extraordinary Times Need Ordinary Behaviours (thebrave.substack.com)

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The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (www.mprove.de)

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Simpleton, a simple tool for UDP to SQLite (github.com)

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0

First observation of branched flow of light (www.sci-news.com)

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0

Show HN: Letters to a New Developer, the Book (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)

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