hackerNews

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CRDTs are the future (josephg.com)

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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads (www.flatpanelshd.com)

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How to Get Promoted (defmacro.substack.com)

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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo (spreadprivacy.com)

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Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology (docs.google.com)

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Zig's New Relationship with LLVM (kristoff.it)

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YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions (arstechnica.com)

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Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS (underjord.io)

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Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists (www.nature.com)

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Google requiring Android apps to use its billing system next year (9to5google.com)

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Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries (insights.dice.com)

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Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool (github.com)

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Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal (amnesty.org.in)

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Microsoft 365 Widespread Outage (https://status.office365.com)

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Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 (blog.ipfs.io)

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US college enrollments are falling (except for graduate degrees) (qz.com)

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Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Parametric lamp design using circle packings (stuffmatic.com)

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Is Y Combinator worth it? (drodio.com)

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Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better (streets.mn)

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ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light (www.scummvm.org)

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4

APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS (eclecticlight.co)

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“I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots” (www.bbc.co.uk)

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SEC charges Amazon finance manager with insider trading (www.sec.gov)

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5

Durability: NVMe Disks (www.evanjones.ca)

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Do things that don't require scale (davnicwil.com)

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Spritely – leveling up the federated social web (spritelyproject.org)

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Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of MIT sheltering abusive mentors (blog.usejournal.com)

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China's Social Credit System: It's both unique and part of a global trend (tutanota.com)

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In Defense of XML (blog.frankel.ch)

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Show HN: The Most Simple Way to Set Goals You Actually Follow (motion.hoanhan.co)

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Amazon One – palm recognition for Amazon Go (blog.aboutamazon.com)

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One man's effort in building a dictionary for over 40 years (zerodha.tech)

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Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons (www.thedrive.com)

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Type Systems Explained with Examples (thevaluable.dev)

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How to digitize your lab notebooks (www.nature.com)

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Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation (www.quantamagazine.org)

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TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024 (wccftech.com)

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Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server (tamas.dev)

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Scorpion Transforming Computer Chair (www.cluvens.net)

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TIC-80 version 0.80 (github.com)

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Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current (blog.netbsd.org)

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Show HN: Erlang code generator for Idris 2 (github.com)

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Uncomfortable Questions About App Signing (commonsware.com)

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OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I) (paedubucher.ch)

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Why I Hate Work Meetings. We should have fun ones. (blog.pwkf.org)

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Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian (www.theguardian.com)

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10

McAfee S-1 (www.sec.gov)

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Manually verified job salaries/offers in Artificial Intelligence (http://aipaygrad.es)

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A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (2008)[pdf] (libros.metabiblioteca.org:8080)

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How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw over Workers (newrepublic.com)

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What is it like to be a smartphone? (www.roughtype.com)

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20

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (analog-antiquarian.net)

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Britain has offensive cyberwar capability, top general admits (www.theguardian.com)

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How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole (www.wired.com)

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Shmig: Database migration tool written in bash (github.com)

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Grep-3.5 Released (savannah.gnu.org)

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Bandlab: Cloud-Based Social Music Creation Platform (www.bandlab.com)

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The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and the public (www.city-journal.org)

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Getting What You Measure (queue.acm.org)

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Leak shows Trump 2016 campaign profiled 3.5mil black Americans as 'deterrence' (twitter.com)

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Xkcd: Messaging Systems (xkcd.com)

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Building a Modern-Day Hit Counter with React, FaunaDB, and Serverless Functions (joshwcomeau.com)

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The weight of buildings and the raising of Chicago (leancrew.com)

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Show HN: Vocabulary 90 – vocabulary learning automation (gsuite.google.com)

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AI Weiwei holds silent protest outside Julian Assange's extradition hearing (www.smh.com.au)

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Typeful Programming (1993) [pdf] (www.lucacardelli.name)

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Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) (akkadia.org)

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Women equal men in computing skill, but are less confident (theconversation.com)

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I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There (gen.medium.com)

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Reasons Coding for Kids Is Not Just Another Fad (livetechnoid.com)

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A psychologist rethinking human emotion (www.theguardian.com)

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Why Mathematicians Still Can’t Solve the Collatz Conjecture (www.quantamagazine.org)

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The Race to Redesign Sugar (www.newyorker.com)

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Show HN: ML News – Like HN, but for Machine Learning (http://mln.dev)

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Why don't aid agencies like to hire local talent? (karmacolonialism.org)

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The JPMorgan Trading Desk the U.S. Called a Crime Ring (www.bloomberg.com)

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A self-erasing chip for security and anti-counterfeit tech (news.umich.edu)

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Google Demands Its 30% Cut from App Developers in Play Store (www.nytimes.com)

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Hacker Releases Info on Las Vegas Students After Officials Don’t Pay Ransom (www.wsj.com)

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Is Palantir's Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors? (nymag.com)

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Are We in a Reddit Trading Bubble? (medium.com)

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Intermittent fasting doesn’t help you lose weight, UCSF study suggests (www.cnbc.com)

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As States Prepared Mail-In Ballots, USPS Failed to Update 1.8M+ Addresses (time.com)

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Wayland on NetBSD – Trials and Tribulations (blog.netbsd.org)

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Bezos Earth Fund has yet to announce a single grant (heated.world)

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Nationwide Reports of 911 System Outages, Cause Not Immediately Clear (www.nbcnewyork.com)

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Behavioral Programming and Tic Tac Toe (2018) (lmatteis.github.io)

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Azure Active Directory is down (status.azure.com)

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Judge in Apple 'Fortnite' case slams Epic's tactics, hints at July trial date (edition.cnn.com)

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Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack (twitter.com)

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BP Outlook 2020: “peak oil” has already happened (energypost.eu)

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Major hospital system hit with cyberattack, potentially largest in U.S. history (www.nbcnews.com)

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Show HN: Keywords2lyrics – Automatic Songwriting from Keywords (lyrics.mathigatti.com)

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Useful and Beneficial (2012) (mikekchar.github.io)

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Designing an accessible color palette with magic numbers (darekkay.com)

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Addiction Ruined the Internet (www.superhighway98.com)

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How to Talk to Customers During an Incident (iamevan.me)

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Assange Hearing Day 19 (www.craigmurray.org.uk)

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RCT of Intermittent Fasting (jamanetwork.com)

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Capacitor issues are causing RTX 3080/3090 crashes (www.techspot.com)

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That’s Not How Taxes Work – An Accountant’s Guide (monsterhunternation.com)

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Crypto Reading (danromero.org)

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Road Tripping with Diana Kennedy (2019) (www.nytimes.com)

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YouTube demonetizes fighter pilot's video for saying “Chuck Yeager” (www.youtube.com)

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Apple vs. Epic hearing previews a long, hard-fought trial to come (arstechnica.com)

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Healthcare giant UHS hit by ransomware attack (techcrunch.com)

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New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster (www.theguardian.com)

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Microsoft Teams Is Down (twitter.com)

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Google antitrust investigation is coming to a head (fortune.com)

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Trello Is Slow or Unavailable (trello.status.atlassian.com)

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Looking Up Words with DICT (jpmens.net)

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What Is Rpikernelhack? (2019) (www.thegeekpub.com)

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Show HN: Bring your desktop-based engineering simulation results, Models in VR (http://visulity.com)

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Office 365 outage ongoing after roll back fails (www.zdnet.com)

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Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel (www.theregister.com)

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Making Time for Cron Triggers: A Look Inside (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Aristotle's Views on Women (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: How to solve “Zoom Fatigue” with a more immersive AR meet mobile app (https://varaxr.com)

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Newfound brain structure for birds challenges assumptions on animal cognition (science.sciencemag.org)

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Deterrence Project: Trump strategy to deter Black Americans from voting [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Skating legend Keith Hufnagel dies at 46 (www.nytimes.com)

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The $47T Heist (thetyee.ca)

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What to Do When the Future Feels Hopeless (www.theatlantic.com)

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Global Temperature Record (en.wikipedia.org)

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Multiple 'water bodies' found under surface of Mars (www.independent.co.uk)

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Hacker News, except for cloud news (cloudweekly.news)

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The Subtle Effects of Blood Circulation Can Be Used to Detect Deep Fakes (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The Ordinary Taxpayer’s Guide to the Extraordinary Story of Trump’s Tax Returns (www.forbes.com)

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