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Pip has dropped support for Python 2 (pip.pypa.io)

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I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them (blog.jmdawson.co.uk)

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Please don't say just hello in chat (nohello.net)

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Larry King has died (twitter.com)

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Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium (bodhi.fedoraproject.org)

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FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol (www.wusa9.com)

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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again (pagely.com)

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Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] (nbloom.people.stanford.edu)

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Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second (jvns.ca)

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Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them (lincoln.metacannon.net)

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How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened? (www.vinography.com)

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Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor (filmulator.org)

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Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Only Sponsers: Build a Salary with GitHub Sponsors (onlysponsors.dev)

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Replicating GPT-2 at Home (bkkaggle.github.io)

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No one knows how much the government can borrow (noahpinion.substack.com)

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The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone (www.vice.com)

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Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men (edition.cnn.com)

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Java 1.0 Turns 25 (www.infoq.com)

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19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months (item?id=25883858)

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But How, Exactly, Do Databases Use mmap? (brunocalza.me)

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Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs) (gutensearch.com)

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Site.js: Small Web construction set (sitejs.org)

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Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers (sponsor.ajay.app)

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Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests (netblocks.org)

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Malware found on laptops given out by government (www.bbc.com)

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Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages (blogs.windows.com)

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Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020) (www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com)

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How you can get banned from Facebook permanently (www.elliott.org)

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DrScheme in Space (parentheticallyspeaking.org)

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Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (unix.stackexchange.com)

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Uber Lays off Postmates Founder/CEO, 180 others (www.nytimes.com)

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Tree – a lib for working with nested data structures, open-sourced by deepmind (github.com)

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Cryptocurreny Crime Is Way Ahead of Regulators and Law Enforcement (www.fnlondon.com)

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Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust (visualstudiomagazine.com)

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Rollerball Pens of 2021 (unsharpen.com)

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How Homogeneous Is Japan? (noahpinion.substack.com)

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France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside (edition.cnn.com)

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Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared to 100UL (www.avweb.com)

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TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM (wayne.lorentz.me)

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Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required (www.eurekalert.org)

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MkLinux (mklinux.org)

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Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan (blog.flipperzero.one)

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Vole.wtf (vole.wtf)

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Italy Blocks Users on TikTok After 10-Year-Old Girl Died in a Blackout Challenge (relayvibes.co)

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Glenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’ (reason.com)

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Siuba – A Dplyr Port to Python (github.com)

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VisualAge for Java 1.0 – Let the Future Begin (1997) (www.tug.ca)

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Old Compilers and Old Bugs (lwn.net)

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Software engineering topics I changed my mind on (chriskiehl.com)

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Ask HN: Is low level progarmming job more satisfying? (item?id=25885699)

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When Historical Fiction Is a Crime (2020) (newrepublic.com)

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Why can 2 times 3 sometimes equal 7 with Android's Neural Network API? (alexanderganderson.github.io)

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TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in x86 Processors (2015) (blog.stuffedcow.net)

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Show HN: Traindown – A language to help athletes express their training (https://traindown.com)

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Cache Management Lessons Learned (symas.com)

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Modern Slavery from Arise VS (twitter.com)

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Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC? (jmmv.dev)

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Irma: Open-source, attribute based credentials (irma.app)

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Teleguard: Swiss Made Safe Messaging (teleguard.com)

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Implementing Raft's Leader Election in Rust (laurocaetano.com)

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Designing a Ruby Serverless Runtime (daniel-azuma.com)

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Computer Science 521 Advanced Algorithm Design (www.cs.princeton.edu)

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Microsoft same-day reversal on Xbox Live Gold price doubling (www.windowscentral.com)

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Yes, I did drop 90GB of my work to Public Domain (spark.adobe.com)

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FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Why Covid-19 is more deadly in people with obesity–even if they’re young (www.sciencemag.org)

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Bram's Law (2003) (web.archive.org)

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Visual Sentence Composer for Japanese (japanesecomplete.com)

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Pied Piper’s New Internet Isn’t Just Possible, It’s Almost Here (2017) (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS (apps.apple.com)

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Money Creation in the Modern Economy (www.bankofengland.co.uk)

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Stephen Kleene's 1951 Paper Where He Introduces Regular Expressions [pdf] (www.rand.org)

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For the First Time in 200 Years, a New Blue Pigment Is Up for Sale (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Low Cost Metal 3D Printing by Electrochemistry (hackaday.com)

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ASCII-Crc (git.envs.net)

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Niche Construction (nicheconstruction.com)

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Delivering local library books to your doorstep (www.lurebees.com)

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The Art of the Reverse Knit (www.nytimes.com)

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Shippers Saw a Need for Bigger Vessels. They Built Them Too Big (www.bloomberg.com)

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B# Programming Language (https://www.bsharplanguage.org)

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Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning (www.sciencenews.org)

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A Primer on How to Work with the Usenet Community (1984) (www.krsaborio.net)

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Boston Globe's 'Fresh Start': People can have past coverage of them anonymized (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Why OCaml (www.youtube.com)

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Apple dropping Lightning port would create 'unprecedented amount of e-waste' (www.zdnet.com)

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Faces of the Riot website uses facial recognition to catalog Capitol protesters (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: I'm crushed, share with me your failure story (item?id=25886859)

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Show HN: Fuselink – Combine multiple links into a single URL (www.fuselink.co)

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Multipole Radiation Shielding – First Generation Star Trek Shield (twitter.com)

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Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat (www.bloomberg.com)

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Autumn Covid-19 surge dates in Europe point to Vitamin D as contributing factor (www.nature.com)

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Tesla’s Autopilot Won’t Achieve Full Autonomy (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ijq: Interactive Jq (sr.ht)

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In remote U.P., ham radio helps Michiganders connect amid isolation (www.freep.com)

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Who Are the Biggest Political Donors? (www.opensecrets.org)

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Technological stagnation: Why I came around (rootsofprogress.org)

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Show HN: My Home Kubernetes Cluster Managed by Flux2 and Renovatebot (github.com)

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Amsterdam Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment (time.com)

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$4k electric pickup truck (electrek.co)

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Overchoice (en.wikipedia.org)

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Swiss SIX Exchange lists BTCetc Bitcoin ETP, a new crypto ETP product (cointelegraph.com)

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Curve.fi is hiring Python (Vyper) dev and QA (py.test). Math knowledge is and+ (www.curve.fi)

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