hackerNews

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Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi (ptx2.net)

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A man who can read letters – but not numbers – exposes roots of consciousness (www.sciencemag.org)

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NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video] (youtube.com)

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GPU Accelerated JavaScript (gpu.rocks)

351 points first seen 2020080221 last seen 2020080406 132 comments

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Hacking Portable Air Conditioners (pmarks.net)

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Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return? (item?id=24020899)

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TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources (www.reuters.com)

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“I got the opportunity to work with Jeff Bezos to develop the original Kindle.” (twitter.com)

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Low latency tuning guide (rigtorp.se)

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Brazil court orders Facebook to block Bolsonaro supporters (www.bbc.com)

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Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech (oonwoye.com)

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Bogleheads (www.bogleheads.org)

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One Byte to rule them all (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering (drewdevault.com)

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Data isn't just being collected from your phone, it's being used to score you (www.chron.com)

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2

We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized (cshl.nautil.us)

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3

JS1024 Results – 1k JavaScript Demos (js1024.fun)

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Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really? (tiemoko.com)

187 points first seen 2020080212 last seen 2020080400 93 comments

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Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough (brendancahill.io)

181 points first seen 2020080203 last seen 2020080321 78 comments

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Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020 (prolost.com)

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T-Mobile blocking SMS containing specific words (reddit.com)

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Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python (github.com)

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Samsung Electronics to halt production at its last computer factory in China (www.reuters.com)

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The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Perl7 is a fork of values (blogs.perl.org)

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How inside information moved Kodak's stock this week (www.chartfleau.com)

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IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux (github.com)

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9

Do NLP Beyond English (ruder.io)

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Reviewing the worst piece of code ever (www.micheleriva.it)

133 points first seen 2020080215 last seen 2020080400 192 comments

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Bootstrap Icons (github.com)

128 points first seen 2020080203 last seen 2020080309 21 comments

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Show HN: JavaScript-free personal bio hosting (https://plumebio.com)

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10

Conventions for Command Line Options (nullprogram.com)

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SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’ (www.cnbc.com)

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Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches (arstechnica.com)

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AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries (uk.reuters.com)

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Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition (www.wsj.com)

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Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer (www.downtowndougbrown.com)

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My Custom Payment Implant (forum.dangerousthings.com)

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How a $175 covid-19 test led to $2,479 in charges (www.propublica.org)

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New ‘Unpatchable’ Exploit Found in Apple’s Secure Enclave Chip (9to5mac.com)

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Synfig Studio – FOSS industrial-strength 2D film-quality animation software (github.com)

93 points first seen 2020080215 last seen 2020080400 18 comments

23

The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore (www.wired.com)

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Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf] (www.cs.rochester.edu)

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World's First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform (renew-wireless.org)

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The semver trick (2019) (github.com)

83 points first seen 2020080203 last seen 2020080303 42 comments

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Casio FX-880P Personal Computer Teardown (neil.computer)

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Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System (github.com)

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75% of child porn reports are fraudulent (2019) (www.iwf.org.uk)

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Ask HN: How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age? (item?id=24025759)

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User-facing portion of invidio.us shutting down (omar.yt)

66 points first seen 2020080209 last seen 2020080312 31 comments

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Show HN: Japanese Language Learning Forum (https://questions.japanesecomplete.com)

66 points first seen 2020080212 last seen 2020080312 29 comments

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Howland Will Forgery Trial (en.wikipedia.org)

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Wilford Brimley, ‘Cocoon’ Star and Quaker Oats Pitchman, Is Dead at 85 (www.nytimes.com)

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Instagram Morphs into an Information Powerhouse (www.axios.com)

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Advancing our approach to digital currency (usa.visa.com)

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Show HN: SpaceVim Release v1.5.0 (spacevim.org)

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Show HN: Google Meet Studio Mini – Change your appearance with a browser script (x-ing.space)

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We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors (projects.propublica.org)

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Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree (www.thedrive.com)

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Japan's Brand New Bullet Train Is Earthquake-Proof (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder (item?id=24021128)

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Do Human crowds during protests resemble animal swarming behavior? (www.wired.com)

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Stock Market: What Happens If Tesla Enters S&P 500 (www.bloomberg.com)

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Incentivized Guardianship (www.overcomingbias.com)

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Sharing Knowledge in a Remote team, across Timezones (erickhun.com)

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More Than 1k Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work? (www.nytimes.com)

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The history of economic growth is, in many ways, a tale of cleaniness (www.economist.com)

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Note to self – never give up on your dreams (docs.google.com)

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DHS had access to messages from Portland protesters, document shows (www.chron.com)

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Dutch minister of health makes a GitHub commit (github.com)

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What Programmers Can Learn from Modular Synthesis and Unix (nora.codes)

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Do any Open Source Licences require source history? (shkspr.mobi)

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Reverse-engineering the adder inside the Intel 8086 (www.righto.com)

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NASA SpaceX Crew enters iPad pin in plain view of camera (imgur.com)

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Ink 3 – Build CLI apps with React (vadimdemedes.com)

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How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers (www.zdnet.com)

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Facebook puts global block on Brazil's Bolsonaro supporters (www.reuters.com)

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When you find out you’re the copycat (bbirnbaum.com)

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Show HN: RISC-V disassembler in 200 lines of C (github.com)

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Show HN: Plugin to add persisted GraphQL queries to WordPress (github.com)

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Zimbabwe deteriorated under Robert Mugabe (www.iafrikan.com)

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William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91 (www.nytimes.com)

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Hardware interrupts with Ben Eater [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Vicar – Multi-dimensional image processing software (github.com)

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W3C give up on preventing PWAs from tracking users (www.theregister.com)

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Interactive Visualizations of Why Eigenvectors Matter (www.dhruvonmath.com)

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Show HN: The Tree Table is a portable table that mounts on a tree's trunk. (www.indiegogo.com)

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Portland sees peaceful night of protests following withdrawal of federal agents (www.theguardian.com)

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German Court Suspends Driver for Adjusting Wiper Speed in Tesla Model 3 (insideevs.com)

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Where do Business Mafias come from? (marker.medium.com)

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Democracy for Sale (https://www.petergeoghegan.com)

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The Rank Hypocrisy of a TikTok Ban (www.wired.com)

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How Italy Turned Around Its Coronavirus Calamity (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Did obtaining an AWS Solutions Architect certification help you? (item?id=24020377)

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Show HN: Unicorn Valley-Platform for crowdsourcing satirical/dumb startup ideas (https://unicornvalley.xyz)

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Shards of Truth (www.eurozine.com)

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Why a Data Breach at a Genealogy Site Has Privacy Experts Worried (www.nytimes.com)

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Dopamine Detox [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Add popups to your website ️ backed with Google Sheets (for free) (proven.ly)

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An OSS community that converts cars to electric. Part 3: Johannes Huebner (coders4climatestrike.com)

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Drawn-on-skin electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors (uh.edu)

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Major Australian ISP down over cyber attack (www.gizmodo.com.au)

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Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-Lidar stance (arstechnica.com)

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Neopixel LED Face Mask (www.instructables.com)

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Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons (2003) (science.sciencemag.org)

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A fleet of modern drones visited flight deck of new British aircraft carrier (defence-blog.com)

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Bret Victor the Future of Programming (www.youtube.com)

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Sowing doubt: people around world receive mystery seed parcels (www.theguardian.com)

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The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees (www.brainpickings.org)

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Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data [pdf] (www.aclweb.org)

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Forces Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1behind Toutiao: China’s content king (www.ycombinator.com)

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China launches mission to Mars with lift-off of home-grown Tianwen-1 spacecraft (www.youtube.com)

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