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WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update (www.theguardian.com)

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Turn any device with a web browser to a second screen for your computer (github.com)

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PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space (pgm.di.unipi.it)

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Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)

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SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to NVIDIA is hitting antitrust wall around the world (asia.nikkei.com)

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Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion (news.osu.edu)

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Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992) (www.mit.edu)

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5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona (www.tomshardware.com)

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All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits (github.com)

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Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works” (arstechnica.com)

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Papercraft Models of Computers (rockybergen.com)

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Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare (www.reddit.com)

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Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants (arstechnica.com)

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Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left (infosec-handbook.eu)

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The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997) (catonmat.net)

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The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class (danco.substack.com)

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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA (www.weforum.org)

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Racket Compiler and Runtime Status: January 2021 (blog.racket-lang.org)

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My Entire company Gsuite access has been banned (item?id=25899814)

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Make Boring Plans (skamille.medium.com)

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Ghost cities and abandoned areas with a declining population (www.theguardian.com)

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18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated (covidvaxcount.live)

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Show HN: Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world (sokyokuban.com)

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Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison (mathoverflow.net)

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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari (daringfireball.net)

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I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one (www.linkedin.com)

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Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate (www.france24.com)

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Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black (2019) (japantoday.com)

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SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched (www.bbc.co.uk)

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SkiftOS: Simple, handmade operating system for the x86 platform (github.com)

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How we improved our website's performance (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year (www.pnas.org)

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The RustyHermit Unikernel (rust-osdev.com)

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Krita 4.4.2 Released (krita.org)

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Escaping the Roadmap Trap (productcrunch.substack.com)

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Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector (asia.nikkei.com)

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A 10B Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece (www.micro-pano.com)

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San Francisco is one of CA’s most conservative cities – when it comes to housing (www.sfchronicle.com)

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AeroPython: Classical Aerodynamics with Python (github.com)

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Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: RevoGrid – Spreadsheet data table for all frameworks (github.com)

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On the Complexity of JSON Serialization (einarwh.wordpress.com)

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Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told (www.theguardian.com)

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An experiment in teaching a language without relying on translation (drdru.github.io)

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Godiva Chocolates to close all 128 North American stores due to Covid pandemic (abc13.com)

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Show HN: Get started modding Factorio in TypeScript (cdaringe.github.io)

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Could giant SPACs be next? (techcrunch.com)

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Reserve – New Sam Altman backed stablecoin crypto project (https://reserve.org)

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The Boston Globe’s Fresh Start Initiative (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Hacking Habit Development with iOS Shortcuts (kylewill.blog)

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AXPbox Alpha Emulator (github.com)

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MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers (hackaday.com)

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Show HN: Plant-based flavor enhancer – hack your tastebuds to eat healthy (mywozi.com)

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Programming Fonts (https://www.programmingfonts.org)

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American Airlines has so much extra wine that it is starting a delivery service (www.cnn.com)

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We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril (m.nautil.us)

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Liner Transatlantic Crossing Times, 1833 – 1952 (in days) (transportgeography.org)

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My Apple IIE: Nearly 30 Years Later (2012) (www.leucht.com)

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Turning desalination waste into a useful resource (news.mit.edu)

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Apple Car: For Real This Time? (mondaynote.com)

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A Recursive Model learned index structure (github.com)

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Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer (phys.org)

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Is Mathematics Real? (2020) (theconversation.com)

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Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women (www.nytimes.com)

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Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos (www.theguardian.com)

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In California, a journey to the end of the road: the Salton Sea (www.ft.com)

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Investing in Clubhouse (a16z.com)

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Vietnam rooftop solar records major boom as more than 9GW installed in 2020 (www.pv-tech.org)

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The Internet Country (tigerfeathers.substack.com)

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Heatwaves may mean Sydney is too hot for people to live in 'within decades' (www.abc.net.au)

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First portrait of mysterious Denisovans drawn from DNA (2019) (www.nature.com)

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Show HN: CVservant: CV Creator for Academic Types (CVservant.com)

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QSCM – A Tiny Bootstrapped Scheme (c9x.me)

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The International Tempest over the World’s Most Famous Teapot (thewalrus.ca)

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Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. A thread (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: What is the cost to launch a SaaS business MVP (item?id=25896506)

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A new newsletter on database engines, streaming systems, query planning (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Flattery-Driven Open-Source (ppinera.es)

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The Origin of Names (2015) (web.pdx.edu)

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Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance (www.phoronix.com)

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Thunderbolt on the M1 Mac mini – when 2 equals 4 (eshop.macsales.com)

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Welcome to Metropica, a Supposed City of the Future (2019) (www.vice.com)

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Introduction: User's Guide to Empire (1991) (www.empire.cx)

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What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It? (2014) (www.slatestarcodexabridged.com)

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Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer? (www.theguardian.com)

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Partial List of Software Patents (1992) (www.textfiles.com)

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Universal basic income doesn’t impact worker productivity (academictimes.com)

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Creating iOS Application Icons with SwiftUI (www.enekoalonso.com)

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Samsung Internet blows Chrome out of the water (www.androidauthority.com)

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Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen (www.nytimes.com)

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Singapore university develops special aerogel that turns air into drinking water (sea.mashable.com)

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Show HN: Supercharge.dev – Accelerated Development in React/Next.js (supercharge.dev)

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Peeron: Lego Set Inventories (www.peeron.com)

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The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle may finally be solved (bigthink.com)

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AB71: $2.4B Tax Hike to Create a ‘Statewide Homelessness Solutions Program (californiaglobe.com)

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Janet Yellen Will Consider Limiting the Use of Cryptocurrency (www.wired.com)

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CDC director: federal government does not know how much Covid vaccine the US has (www.cnbc.com)

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Building General-Purpose Robots (howthehell.substack.com)

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The Problem with Commercial Open Source (frappe.io)

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Moderna Vaccine Manufacturing Tracker (eqvanalytics.com)

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Interest Rate Effects on Equities: Valuation Impacts (www.lynalden.com)

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Is anyone else blown away by how fast these M1 MacBooks are? (forums.macrumors.com)

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Show HN: A weekly newsletter where I interview an open-source developer (console.substack.com)

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Ask HN: Should I use Web Push Notifications? (item?id=25898883)

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The Viral Vasectomy: Covid's Silver Lining – Peter Watts' Blog (www.rifters.com)

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For Wars of the Future, Pentagon Looks to the Distant Past: The B-52 (www.wsj.com)

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Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight Covid-19 (montreal.ctvnews.ca)

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Show HN: Pollen, utility-first CSS for the future (https://www.pollen.style)

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California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (www.sfgate.com)

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The third in the line of presidential succession has been in five Batman movies (edition.cnn.com)

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DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful (arstechnica.com)

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Renewable Power Beat Fossil Fuels in EU for First Time Last Year (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Teflon Toxin (2015) (theintercept.com)

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JavaScript Database (JSDB) (github.com)

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GContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1oogle: We’ll shut down Australian search before we pay news sites for links (arstechnica.com)

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Hawley mentors stunned by conduct, but early warning signs were there (www.kansascity.com)

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Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers in London (bookface.ycombinator.com)

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