hackerNews

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Tony Hsieh has died (www.yahoo.com)

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How to Think for Yourself (paulgraham.com)

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‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Startups (www.nytimes.com)

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Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework (revealjs.com)

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Digital Tools I Wish Existed (jon.bo)

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K6 is “like unit testing, for performance” (github.com)

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Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting (twitter.com)

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Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized (www.macrumors.com)

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Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake (www.nature.com)

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AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock (www.theregister.com)

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Hire people who give a shit (alexw.substack.com)

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SQLite as a Document Database (dgl.cx)

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Connections by James Burke (1978) (topdocumentaryfilms.com)

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Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity (reneweconomy.com.au)

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Goodbye PowerDns (blog.powerdns.com)

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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC startups. AMA (item?id=25229672)

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Warp Drive News. Seriously! (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike (Lemond.com)

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Infinite Bad Guy (billie.withyoutube.com)

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Blackrota, a heavily obfuscated backdoor written in Go (blog.netlab.360.com)

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ReStuff (http://restuff.jcs.org)

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TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents (arxiv.org)

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The Unix Command Language (1976) (github.com)

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R number for UK below 1 for first time since August (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Life on the inside as a ‘locked-in’ patient (www.theguardian.com)

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Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing (medium.com)

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The Purpose of Writing (limitlesscuriosity.com)

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Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up) (finestructure.co)

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British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen (www.bignewsnetwork.com)

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European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’ (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executable in 1 click (cloud.blobcity.com)

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Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – A free to use D&D map maker (dungeonmapdoodler.com)

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Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine (phys.org)

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The Code It Yourself Manifesto (2016) (pestilenz.org)

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Rustup 1.23.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

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McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses (www.nytimes.com)

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ASICs at the Edge (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Htmx 1.0.0 Release (htmx.org)

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Departing senior engineer refuses to introduce replacements to OSS community (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers? (www.wearedevelopers.com)

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Show HN: NFreezer – Encrypted-at-rest remote backup tool (github.com)

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Mishima in the Twenty First Century (www.petertasker.asia)

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A few ways to make money in FOSS (drewdevault.com)

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RipTable – multi-threaded Python data analytics tools for numpy arrays/datasets (github.com)

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Zenoh – Zero Overhead Pub/Sub, Store/Query and Compute (zenoh.io)

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I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month (bhaskargandavabi.medium.com)

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Ontology, Graphs and Turtles (blog.owulveryck.info)

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US agency investigating Tesla front suspension failures (abcnews.go.com)

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How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Diary of Alice James (2017) (www.brainpickings.org)

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Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of Covid (www.cbsnews.com)

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Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook (2014) (arstechnica.com)

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Unusual murder weapons in crime fiction (crimereads.com)

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A New Theory of Western Civilization (www.theatlantic.com)

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Console Spreadsheets (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

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Tiny Homes Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis (thewalrus.ca)

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Deciphering Chopin’s shorthand in the posthumous Mazurka in F minor (2018) (www.claviercompanion.com)

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A new hot hand paradox (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

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Doomsday climate study debunked by researchers (www.eenews.net)

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Cosmic rays and computers (1998) (www.nature.com)

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Continuous Bernoulli distribution of Variational autoencoders (github.com)

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How to Protect Your DNA Data Before and After Taking an At-Home Test (www.nytimes.com)

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Notes from a Gibsonian Novel (boston.conman.org)

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Daniel Kahneman: “A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking” (www.edge.org)

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Where Did America Go Wrong? (www.spiegel.de)

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AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity (generated.photos)

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The case of the missing dark matter: new suspect found in galactic mystery (phys.org)

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Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence (www.theparisreview.org)

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Tokenized: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase (www.nytimes.com.)

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European Parliament Votes for Right to Repair (www.ifixit.com)

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Oracle secures Australian whole-of-government deal (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Are online master degrees credible? (item?id=25228733)

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‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Startups (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: A Blogging Platform (https://scribbble.io)

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Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy? (e360.yale.edu)

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Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices (www.swissinfo.ch)

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Facebook’s Libra currency to launch next year in limited format (www.ft.com)

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Digital nomads living on a boat for 4 years (www.youtube.com)

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A Byzantine failure in the real world (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Overview of Serialization Technologies (2018) [pdf] (indico.cern.ch)

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Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages (www.bloomberg.com)

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Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections (apnews.com)

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5 Tactics In Typography and Design That Can Help You Ship Your MVP Fast and Good (ricardosawir.medium.com)

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William Faulkner’s Demons (www.newyorker.com)

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Report Claims CIA Controlled Second Swiss Encryption Firm (www.courthousenews.com)

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What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like–and How We Know (www.youtube.com)

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As thousands of athletes get coronavirus tests, nurses wonder: What about us? (www.msn.com)

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We Need Design Thinking in Social Innovation (vedikadayal.medium.com)

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More than 3B people affected by water shortages, data shows (www.theguardian.com)

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Bill Gates is wrong about education (supermemo.guru)

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Iran's top nuclear scientist believed assassinated by Mossad (www.nytimes.com)

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New rule could allow poison gas, firing squads for US executions (nypost.com)

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The Bargain Hunter's Dilemma – The Big Picture (ritholtz.com)

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Show HN: JIT Hydration for ultra efficient isomorphic web apps (dev.to)

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Suspected North Korean hackers targeted Covid vaccine maker AstraZeneca (www.reuters.com)

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What football will look like in the future (www.sbnation.com)

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Facebook’s Libra to reportedly launch in January 2021 as USD stablecoin (cointelegraph.com)

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Bloomberg Article – Why I’m Losing Hope in India (www.bloomberg.com)

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