hackerNews

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Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies (blog.mozilla.org)

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IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

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I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? (crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com)

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Firefox 85 (www.mozilla.org)

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Nq – a simple Unix job queue system (github.com)

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Postgres Scaling Advice for 2021 (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)

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Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (www.qualys.com)

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Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab (www.newsweek.com)

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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 (www.backblaze.com)

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Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model (about.gitlab.com)

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LZ4, an Extremely Fast Compression Algorithm (lz4.github.io)

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Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds (mainichi.jp)

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East Coast Wide Spread Internet Outage? (item?id=25917798)

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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime (www.ventscape.life)

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Show HN: I made an alarm clock (www.stavros.io)

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What color was “Apple Beige”? (bzotto.medium.com)

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A Very Detailed Guide on Split Keyboards and How to Build Them (github.com)

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Lambda: The Microsoft Excel worksheet function (www.microsoft.com)

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Making Twitter a better home for writers (blog.twitter.com)

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Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination (exhibits.stanford.edu)

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Streaming sites steer clear of Khashoggi documentary with Oscar-winning director (variety.com)

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Making is Show Business now (alexdanco.com)

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Why does it take so long to build software? (2020) (www.simplethread.com)

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Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952) (techchannel.att.com)

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Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content (taibbi.substack.com)

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A Map of Mathematics (mathmap.quantamagazine.org)

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Launch HN: Airbyte (YC W20) – Open-Source ELT (Fivetran/Stitch Alternative) (item?id=25917403)

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The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop in the West (thecrow.uk)

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How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker (www.theguardian.com)

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What does the night sky look like on Mars? (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)

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CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python (github.com)

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Evcxr: A Rust REPL and Jupyter Kernel (github.com)

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FiOS service disruption in Northeast US (istheservicedown.com)

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UPS sells trucking unit (www.themiddlemarket.com)

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Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss (www.theguardian.com)

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Open Sourcing Tilt Brush (opensource.googleblog.com)

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Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network (www.theguardian.com)

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How do I safely store my files? (photostructure.com)

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Python's Type Checking Renaissance (dafoster.net)

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AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested (www.anandtech.com)

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AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat (www.anandtech.com)

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Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network (www.ft.com)

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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans (bloodknife.com)

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Visual Tcl (vtcl.sourceforge.net)

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The No-Order File System (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

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Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine (blog.vpetkov.net)

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UPS sells short-haul trucking business for $800M (news.bloomberglaw.com)

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Merkaartor – a Qt-based OpenStreetMap editor (github.com)

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Red Hat simply refused to invest in CentOS Linux – interview (www.theregister.com)

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Enabling the future of academic research with the Twitter API (blog.twitter.com)

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Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself (www.theguardian.com)

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Crony Beliefs (meltingasphalt.com)

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Latches in C++20 (modernescpp.com)

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A worry junior engineers frequently have is that they ask too many questions (twitter.com)

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Frugal Web Browser: A Design Experiment (frugalweb.xyz)

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The Pros and Cons of DRY Code (qvault.io)

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Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals (www.perl.com)

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Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger (www.reuters.com)

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Load balancing and its different types (www.wisdomgeek.com)

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JITX – Software-Defined Electronics (www.jitx.com)

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Big Ideas 2021 [pdf] (research.ark-invest.com)

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Show HN: A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products (thesustainablecoopstore.splashthat.com)

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Oldest Libraries in the World (www.oldest.org)

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GME: Or, why we shouldn't underestimate “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal” (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Are you playing your violin (viola, guitar, etc.) in tune? (ctrager.github.io)

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MasterCard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU due to Brexit (www.bbc.com)

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Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming “automation error” (www.wsws.org)

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Why Create a New Unix Shell? (www.oilshell.org)

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Topology 101: The Hole Truth (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism (www.nature.com)

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About the security content of iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 (support.apple.com)

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Revue Is Joining Twitter (www.getrevue.co)

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Six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form (phys.org)

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Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, etc. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You (www.wired.com)

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RadixSpline: A Single-Pass Learned Index (github.com)

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The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS (boilingsteam.com)

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A Peek into the Future of Distros (venam.nixers.net)

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Beyond Identity Offers Free Version of Its Passwordless Technology (www.darkreading.com)

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Programming in Five Easy Pieces (danielbmarkham.com)

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Should You Write a Wayland Compositor? (tudorr.ro)

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Former Google CEO and others call for U.S.-China tech “bifurcation” (www.axios.com)

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The styled-components happy path (www.joshwcomeau.com)

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100 years later, the dystopian origin of the word ‘robot’ still rings true (qz.com)

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Plex Arcade (www.plex.tv)

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Why Trying to Be Perfect Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals (and What Will) (jamesclear.com)

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AMD Threadripper Pro Retail Pricing Listed: $6k for 64 Cores, $3k for 32 Cores (www.tomshardware.com)

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We need to throw out a mindblowing amount of science and start again (thespinoff.co.nz)

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Facebook’s settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog (techcrunch.com)

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Spectrum2_signald: An XMPP/Signal gateway (pre-alpha version) (gitlab.com)

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Pueue – a beautiful Unix job queue system (github.com)

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Tips for Debugging Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff (releaseapp.io)

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Show HN: Open-source voice typing for desktop (github.com)

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What I Learned from Google for Startups Founders Academy (blog.google)

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South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash (www.zdnet.com)

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Verizon on Twitter: “There's a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR as of yet.” (twitter.com)

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Short Sellers Crushed Like Never Before as Retail Army Charges (www.bloomberg.com)

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It’s over Between Us, AVAudioEngine (supermegaultragroovy.com)

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What the Hell Is Going on with GameStop’s Stock? (slate.com)

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IKEA will sell spare parts for its furniture in latest sustainability drive (markets.businessinsider.com)

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EU citizens offered financial incentives to leave UK (www.theguardian.com)

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Covariant Electrodynamics the Easy Way (michaelallenwarner.github.io)

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What Tracy Chou learned about online harassment while building app to solve it (www.protocol.com)

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End Two Federal Programs That Fund Police Surveillance Tech (www.eff.org)

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Finding the Time for Ancient Novels (www.amacad.org)

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Evaluating JavaScript in the browser for a low code product (blog.appsmith.com)

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Apple Ships Emergency Fixes for Under-Attack iOS Zero-Day (www.securityweek.com)

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How the spread of sheds threatens cities (www.economist.com)

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AMD Ryzen 9 5880HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested (www.anandtech.com)

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Front-End Development Roadmap for 2021 (www.works-hub.com)

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What Happened When Henry James and Oscar Wilde Met (2015) (newrepublic.com)

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Tilt Brush is now open source (github.com)

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YouTube has paid more than $30B to creators over the last three years (www.theverge.com)

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Intel reveals ‘hacked’ earnings release was on guessable URL (www.ft.com)

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GameStop stock up 92.7% today (finance.yahoo.com)

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Startup Poker (kromatic.com)

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Alexey Navalny’s Fearless Return to Russia (www.newyorker.com)

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sudo buffer overflow in command line unescaping “Baron Samedit” (www.sudo.ws)

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Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS (sparkle-project.org)

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Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles over New Fans from Far Right (www.nytimes.com)

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Baron Samedit: Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (CVE-2021-3156) (www.openwall.com)

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List of Spacecraft in the Culture Series (theculture.fandom.com)

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The Chromatic Effects of Late Nineteenth-Century London Fog (2016) (literarylondon.org)

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Ask HN: What field has the most objective, quantitative evaluation of skill? (item?id=25922326)

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“Lady Bird Special” Was the Lowliest of Air Force One Aircraft (www.thedrive.com)

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Apollo CEO to Step Down After Firm Finds More Payments to Jeffrey Epstein (www.nytimes.com)

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Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free (www.theverge.com)

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Can Remote Teams Be Innovative? (blog.doist.com)

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The DMA could help make the internet a level playing field (protonmail.com)

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A Cache Stampede Caused One of Facebook’s Biggest Outages (medium.com)

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Tory party illegally collected data on ethnicity of 10m voters, MPs told (www.theguardian.com)

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Reinforcement Learning with the Unity Game Engine and RLlib (medium.com)

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J. M. Keynes and the Visible Hands (www.publicbooks.org)

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Ask HN: What are you favorite discord servers? (item?id=25924603)

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Chamath for California Governor (www.chamathforca.com)

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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak at EU Data Protection Conference This Thusday (www.macrumors.com)

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Man who moved from CA to Texas pens scathing op-ed complaining about Austin (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Why Is Big Tech Policing Free Speech? Because the Government Isn’t (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Latte Art Simulator (barist.art)

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A Scientist Is Arrested, and Academics Push Back (www.nytimes.com)

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GameStop Is Just a Game (www.bloomberg.com)

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AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Review (www.techspot.com)

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World’s biggest diesel factory pivots to electric motors (thenextweb.com)

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Who Owns Stocks? Explaining the Rise in Inequality During the Pandemic (www.nytimes.com)

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US has 'moral imperative' to develop AI weapons, says panel (www.theguardian.com)

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Assessing Mandatory Lockdowns and Business Closure Effects on Spread of Covid-19 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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Twitter Acquires Revue, a Newsletter Company (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: (Why) do we often drop punctuation in messenger apps? (item?id=25914302)

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Monkeys Understand Economics, Steal High-Ticket Items to Barter for Better Food (gizmodo.com)

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People paying $35M each to fly to the space station (www.msn.com)

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Unsafe Rust: How and when (not) to use it (blog.logrocket.com)

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First private space crew paying $55M each to fly to ISS (phys.org)

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iOS 14.4 Patched Two Vulnerabilities That May Have Been Actively Exploited (wccftech.com)

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Ask HN: Logged Out of HN? (item?id=25922475)

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Ask HN: What's a reasonable deprecation period for an API? (item?id=25921340)

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Ask HN: Does Grayscale charge $400M/year for holding Bitcoin? (item?id=25925505)

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UserGems (YC S14) Is Hiring 2nd and 3rd Account Executive (Remote, US) (www.usergems.com)

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Radar (YC W13) Is Hiring (www.workatastartup.com)

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