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Brad Cox, creator of Objective-C, has passed away (www.legacy.com)

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Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client (www.pidgin.im)

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First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time (www.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II (rosenzweig.io)

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Facebook shuts down major left wing group in Britain (swp.org.uk)

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Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable (iconduck.com)

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A curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (bits.ashleyblewer.com)

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One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected (tass.com)

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Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment (hisham.hm)

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How hard should I push myself? (superorganizers.every.to)

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Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption (www.theguardian.com)

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Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models (www.electrive.com)

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Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf)

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New six-film series from Adam Curtis (www.bbc.com)

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Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014) (www.slatestarcodexabridged.com)

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Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid (rysolv.com)

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Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging (med.stanford.edu)

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Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII (www.bbc.com)

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Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico (hackaday.com)

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PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances (www.percona.com)

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Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs (github.com)

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.NET GC Internals mini-series (tooslowexception.com)

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I Almost Got Fired for Choosing React in Our Enterprise App (medium.com)

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Access Control for GitHub Pages (github.blog)

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Economist: Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned (www.economist.com)

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B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers (rocketgems.com)

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Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations (dd.meddle.mobi)

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The right way to turn off your old APIs (httptoolkit.tech)

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Cgit, Nginx and Gitolite: A Personal Git Server (bryanbrattlof.com)

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A story about pivots (posthog.com)

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Tencent is acquiring a majority stake in Klei Entertainment (forums.kleientertainment.com)

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Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet? (a16z.com)

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Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites (www.multy.me)

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Gist.cafe – Execute Gists of Python Node Deno C# Dart Swift Go Kotlin Java VB F# (https://gist.cafe)

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Auto-Redistrict – automatically create fair and compact electoral districts (autoredistrict.org)

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Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (randoc.wordpress.com)

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Raspberry Pi as x2go “thin” client (www.multi-seat.com)

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Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version (yurichev.com)

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Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software (agfundernews.com)

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Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing? (item?id=25875386)

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Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization (laanwj.github.io)

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ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP (www.heise.de)

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Oversight Board accepts case on Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook (oversightboard.com)

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Libvirt: Adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code (www.berrange.com)

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Show HN: Userbase – Auth and E2E encrypted storage in a few lines of code (userbase.com)

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Micro Benchmarking Dart (mrale.ph)

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Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years (www.reaktor.com)

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Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job? (item?id=25878360)

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Alphabet shutting Loon, which used balloon alternative to cell towers (www.reuters.com)

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Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants (www.nytimes.com)

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Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn’t a Place (blog.initialized.com)

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OwnCloud releases tech preview on new, innovative platform – ownCloud (owncloud.com)

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Mira Furlan has died (variety.com)

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Intro to securing communication protocols with Noise (grund.me)

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World-first home hydrogen battery stores 3x the energy of a Powerwall 2 (newatlas.com)

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Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing (www.anl.gov)

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Could Google Really Leave Australia? (www.bbc.com)

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Reversing the Aging Clock with Epigenetic Reprogramming (www.bio-itworld.com)

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Accidental Nuclear War: A Timeline of Close Calls (futureoflife.org)

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Fulfilling the Promise of CI/CD (stackoverflow.blog)

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The strange economics of open-source software (2015) (www.philipotoole.com)

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Mira Furlan: Babylon 5 and Lost actress dies at 65 (www.bbc.com)

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Jessica Rosenworcel replaces Ajit Pai, is now acting FCC chairwoman (arstechnica.com)

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GameStop Stock Breaks Records as Reddit Traders War with Short Sellers (kotaku.com)

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Rolling Stone seeks 'thought leaders' willing to pay $2k to write for them (www.theguardian.com)

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A brief insight into the complexities of creating a new capability at the BBC (medium.com)

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Google says it will disable Search in Australia if it's forced to pay for news (www.engadget.com)

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Could Indoor Vertical Farms Feed Livestock? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Capturing call stack with Haskell exceptions (maksbotan.github.io)

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Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters (www.brown.edu)

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The Analog Computer Inside Prime Minister (www.insidegmt.com)

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Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Without Warrant (www.wsj.com)

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“Qanon” is Propaganda, and we know who’s responsible (blog.usejournal.com)

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Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity (www.coindesk.com)

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DIA uses purchased phone location data without warrants (www.cyberscoop.com)

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Home Security Tech Hacked into Cameras to Watch People Undressing and Having Sex (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Interview with Virologist Christian Drosten (www.spiegel.de)

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Promoted Add-ons Pilot Wrap-up (blog.mozilla.org)

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Open Positions (freebsdfoundation.org)

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SymQEMU: Compilation-based symbolic execution for binaries (s3.eurecom.fr)

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Hydroxychloroquine-mediated inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 entry attenuated by TMPRSS2 (journals.plos.org)

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New Acting FCC Chief Jessica Rosenworcel Supports Restoring Net Neutrality (www.vice.com)

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GameStop Record Surge Amid Tug-of-War Gives Reddit Army Win (www.bloomberg.com)

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Baleen Analytics: Large-scale filtering of data provides serendipitous surprises (queue.acm.org)

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After big hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists world class cybersecurity team (www.reuters.com)

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Facebook deactivated account after it advocated decentralized social networks (twitter.com)

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The Careful Work of Breathing Life into the Corpse Flower (www.atlasobscura.com)

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What might Earth’s next supercontinent look like? New study provides clues (www.sciencemag.org)

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Dome Home Built For Under $11,000 (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Why is desktop computing still so slow? (item?id=25877052)

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Ceramics That Won’t Shatter (www.technologyreview.com)

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Linux Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough (linuxunplugged.com)

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Neutron Radiography (phoenixwi.com)

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Microsoft Patent Shows Plans to Revive Deceased Loved Ones as Chatbots (www.independent.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Are there any good open source tax software projects? (item?id=25873008)

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Ask HN: What is it like to work at Spotify? (item?id=25872630)

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Stablecoins through history – Michigan Bank Commissioners report, 1839 (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Lessons learned in my first year being CTO (shekhargulati.com)

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Are new stars less pure as generations goes by? (astronomy.stackexchange.com)

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Tesla Claims Engineer Stole Secrets Just Three Days on the Job (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: How many % of Machine Learning projects “fail”? (item?id=25870752)

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Brave CTO, and IPFS Lead: AMA about IPFS in Brave and the Decentralized Web (www.reddit.com)

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Can we talk about client-side certificates? (drewdevault.com)

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Audio Modulated Tesla Coil (2010) (uzzors2k.com)

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xkcd Color Survey Results (2010) (blog.xkcd.com)

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EU Parliament condemns China deal over HK crackdown (news.rthk.hk)

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Optimizing Traffic Signals to Reduce Intersection Wait Times – Texas a&M Today (today.tamu.edu)

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What the West can do about China’s Uyghur labour camps (www.spectator.co.uk)

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Cloudflare Waiting Room (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Google suspends second AI ethics researcher: union (news.yahoo.com)

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Shecc: Self-hosting and educational C compiler (github.com)

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Twitter suspended Iran's supreme leader after a threat tweet to attack Trump (www.bbc.com)

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California has the most vaccines of any US state; it has used only 27% of them (www.sfgate.com)

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Building a Stereoscopic Camera with the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) (2018) (slatestarcodex.com)

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The Dragon Speech, and Chris Crawford's Improbable Dream (lifeandtimes.games)

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Apple plans new MacBook Air with Magsafe, MacBook Pro with SD Card Slot (www.bloomberg.com.)

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Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody prevented Covid-19 in clinical trial (www.statnews.com)

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Out of Control (kevlinhenney.medium.com)

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Clubhouse, Part 1 – The Beginning (highvy.substack.com)

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The Closing Walls Around China’s Independent Game Developers (egmnow.com)

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Y Combinator is hiring a product engineer to help more YC companies hire (item?id=25870891)

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Repl.it is hiring designers and engineers to build better programming environments (repl.it)

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