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The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free (www.currentaffairs.org)

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down in the Gulf of Mexico (www.nytimes.com)

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US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat (twitter.com)

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Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule (sliderulemuseum.com)

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US Travel firm $4.5m ransom negotiation open chat (threadreaderapp.com)

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Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up (www.inquirer.com)

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Mastodon 3.2 (blog.joinmastodon.org)

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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business (adamwathan.me)

270 points first seen 2020080312 last seen 2020080409 101 comments

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Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server (pleroma.social)

243 points first seen 2020080312 last seen 2020080421 105 comments

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I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes (github.com)

233 points first seen 2020080300 last seen 2020080403 79 comments

6

A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (chrisdone.com)

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7

When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices (discuss.bootstrapped.fm)

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Autodesk criticised by architects (extranetevolution.com)

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9

Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue (www.axios.com)

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3

GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain (www.gitenberg.org)

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Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store (arstechnica.com)

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8

I Still Use an Old PowerPC Mac in 2020 (www.howtogeek.com)

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4

Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers (github.com)

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9

Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making (brick.do)

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10

Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak (www.bbc.com)

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Brain-Gut Circuit Lets Microbiota Directly Affect the Sympathetic Nervous System (www.technologynetworks.com)

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10

“Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia (www.cbsnews.com)

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6

What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project (www.dylanwilson.net)

155 points first seen 2020080300 last seen 2020080400 111 comments

17

GitHub's largest collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering (github.com)

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33

The frustration of trying to invest in my hometown (www.bbc.com)

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12

Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies (www.engadget.com)

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3

The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished (onezero.medium.com)

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21

μPlot v1.1 – now with log scales support (leeoniya.github.io)

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17

Bill English has died (www.latimes.com)

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17

OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006) (www2.lib.uchicago.edu)

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Hand sanitizer recall: FDA list of “toxic” sanitizers expands to 94 (www.fda.gov)

101 points first seen 2020080303 last seen 2020080315 83 comments

17

What is a Product Roadmap? (www.jibranelbazi.com)

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Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US (blogs.microsoft.com)

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21

MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball (mntre.com)

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23

Show HN: Create beautiful landing pages by copy-paste (frontendor.com)

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20

KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19 (kokpitherald.com)

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Ask HN: What’s your daily/weekly routine? (item?id=24029286)

85 points first seen 2020080303 last seen 2020080306 52 comments

15

Inside A £30 Record Player (shkspr.mobi)

81 points first seen 2020080303 last seen 2020080318 55 comments

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Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

72 points first seen 2020080312 last seen 2020080403 66 comments

15

Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf] (www.ams.org)

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How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)

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Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013) (www.theatlantic.com)

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0

Brexit fuels brain drain as skilled Britons head to the EU (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Geopolitical forums similar to HN? (item?id=24028512)

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17

The Architecture of the Medieval Page (2018) (medievalbooks.nl)

57 points first seen 2020080306 last seen 2020080403 4 comments

20

Rethinking the Science of Skin (www.newyorker.com)

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UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing (torrentfreak.com)

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What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon (mssv.net)

53 points first seen 2020080303 last seen 2020080306 26 comments

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Permanently Flipped Workplace (blog.usejournal.com)

49 points first seen 2020080306 last seen 2020080309 55 comments

25

Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs (www.hungerforwords.com)

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Local-first software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud [pdf] (www.inkandswitch.com)

46 points first seen 2020080300 last seen 2020080300 21 comments

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Pi-KVM: easy and cheap DIY KVM over IP with mouse, virtual drive, VNC and IPMI (www.reddit.com)

46 points first seen 2020080312 last seen 2020080400 5 comments

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Google killed a small smart glass maker after acquiring it (androidrookies.com)

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Why professors are writing crap that nobody reads (newsin.asia)

40 points first seen 2020080306 last seen 2020080312 33 comments

16

Breaking into ASOS (www.os2museum.com)

40 points first seen 2020080315 last seen 2020080409 16 comments

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Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader (hacker-news.news)

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Why I started GigoBooks, and how I got the idea for a startup (www.gigobooks.com)

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SpaceX: Good Splashdown of Dragon Confirmed (twitter.com)

38 points first seen 2020080306 last seen 2020080306 0 comments

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Beyond Bitswap (adlrocha.substack.com)

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Carl Bergstrom: ‘People are using data to bullshit’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Mass arrests after BlackBerry cracked five years after seizure (www.smh.com.au)

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Ask HN: What are the most interesting things in tech lately? (item?id=24032840)

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Tesla Autopilot Accidents: 1 out of 4,5M Miles; US Average: 1 out of 479,000 (cleantechnica.com)

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Garmin received decryptor for WastedLocker ransomware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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This is Your Constitution on Drugs (nationalaffairs.com)

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Aha – Take On Me – but OpenAi Jukebox tries to complete the song (m.youtube.com)

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Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech” (questinglog.com)

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TikTok and the Law: A Primer (In Case You Need to Explain to Your Teenager) (www.lawfareblog.com)

21 points first seen 2020080309 last seen 2020080318 5 comments

27

Interviewing the “Passé” Way, For a Reason (no-kill-switch.ghost.io)

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I Sold My Entire Investment Portfolio One Hour Ago (entrepreneurshandbook.co)

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300k cargo ship workers still trapped at sea by the coronavirus pandemic (www.businessinsider.com)

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TikTok owners will relocate to London from Beijing, Sun newspaper says (mobile.reuters.com)

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Samsung 870 QVO SATA 2.5“ SSD 8TB (www.samsung.com)

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Amazon given go ahead to launch thousands of satellites (www.euronews.com)

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San Francisco flattened the curve early. Now, coronavirus cases are surging (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Triller sues TikTok over patent infringement (techcrunch.com)

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U.S. to Act on China Software Beyond TikTok, Pompeo Says (www.bloomberg.com)

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Open Amiga Sampler – New Amiga Hardware Announcement (www.youtube.com)

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Lifestyle changes could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases – study (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Treenee, a simple “decision tree” engine (github.com)

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Microsoft Says It Will Continue Pursuit of TikTok (www.nytimes.com)

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New AI tool detects child sexual abuse material with ‘99% precision’ (thenextweb.com)

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TikTok – How the White House Helped U.S. Investors to Raid a Chinese Company (www.moonofalabama.org)

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0

Externality (en.wikipedia.org)

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From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen’s Troubled Online Path (www.nytimes.com)

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Who invented the wheel and how did they do it (www.wired.com)

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From Head to Toe in the Ancient Maya World (www.archaeology.org)

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Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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TikTok: Pompeo says Trump to crack down on Chinese software in coming days (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Another anti-caste activist arrested in India (scroll.in)

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Facial Recognition’s Next Big Play: The Sports Stadium (www.wsj.com)

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Paper Mill Shutdown – A Warning from Wisconsin (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Elon Musk Quietly Revealed a Plan That Could Change the Auto Industry (www.inc.com)

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Decades-Old Soviet Studies Hint at Coronavirus Strategy (www.nytimes.com)

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