hackerNews

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Judge in Google case disturbed that even 'Incognito' users are tracked (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

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Actually Portable Executable (justine.lol)

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Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules (www.npr.org)

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Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection (twitter.com)

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Blender 2.92 (www.blender.org)

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Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix (hummingbard.com)

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Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc (github.com)

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Some small USA towns giving away housing lots (offgridpermaculture.com)

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Are You Trading or Gambling? (investinglessons.substack.com)

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Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? (www.nytimes.com)

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‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos (gizmodo.com)

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Const generics MVP hits beta (blog.rust-lang.org)

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8

An interactive guide to CSS transitions (www.joshwcomeau.com)

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SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity (www.sec.gov)

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US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing (www.bbc.com)

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Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs (github.com)

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How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size (eng.uber.com)

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The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box fan (dynomight.net)

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8

The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently (aliabdaal.com)

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Why I'm Done Pretending Touchscreen Infotainment Isn't a Stupid, Hazardous Fad (www.thedrive.com)

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Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python (github.com)

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WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem (stuker.com)

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5

Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go (github.com)

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6

The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language (www.scientificamerican.com)

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GNU poke 1.0 (www.jemarch.net)

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7

A Road to Common Lisp (2018) (stevelosh.com)

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How Prepared Are We for the Next Giant Solar Flare? (www.forbes.com)

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Shopify employees accessed customer databases without authorization (item?id=26281689)

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4

PureScript and Haskell (blog.drewolson.org)

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Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves (artificialintelligence-news.com)

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19

Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo (blog.mozilla.org)

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Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool (https://smoothstep.io)

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5

Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU (blog.yifangu.com)

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1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011) (www.zdnet.com)

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Griddy Is Shutting Down (www.griddy.com)

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Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (eng.uber.com)

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Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore (www.netmeister.org)

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Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing? (www.wnep.com)

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15

Tweak: An Efficient Hex Editor (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)

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Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an open-source framework (lowdefy.com)

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Tesla is shifting from nickel to iron cathode on standard range car's batteries (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage (github.com)

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An early look at VLC 4.0 – Hello darkness, my old friend (www.dedoimedo.com)

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Launch HN: Insight (YC W19) – an iOS browser with easy-to-make extensions (item?id=26276179)

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Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before (www.sciencemag.org)

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9

Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free (www.sidefx.com)

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Fedora and Fallback DNS Servers (lwn.net)

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Show HN: Doppler Share – Share one-off secrets with end-to-end encryption (https://share.doppler.com)

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What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption (metal.equinix.com)

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California Prisons Forced Sterilisations – Belly of the Beast (twitter.com)

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Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers? (news.itsfoss.com)

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Mac finder uses 1,000,000 bytes instead of 1,048,576 bytes for file sizes (2011) (discussions.apple.com)

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What's so hard about PDF automatic text summarization? Faster R-CNN and PEGASUS (konfuzio.com)

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Before You Memo() (overreacted.io)

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Grouparoo: Declarative Data Sync (www.grouparoo.com)

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Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations – Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem (www.inc.com)

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Every thought about personal finance I've ever had, as concisely as possible (blog.aadilali.com)

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When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver (lithub.com)

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Sneakerheads Have Turned Jordans and Yeezys into a Bona Fide Asset Class (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ytmdl-web – download music from YouTube with metadata (github.com)

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Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language (oberon.org)

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An Exploration of JSON Interoperability Vulnerabilities (labs.bishopfox.com)

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PicoCAD: A tiny modeller made in PICO-8 (johanpeitz.itch.io)

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The English Style: On the fashion trends of seventeenth-century London (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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The Bupstash Garbage Collector (acha.ninja)

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Resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration (undeadly.org)

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Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression (ai.googleblog.com)

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I found the Bay Area hill in Windows XP's iconic wallpaper (www.sfgate.com)

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SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity (www.reuters.com)

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PicoCAD (twitter.com)

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Texas’s Power Market Is $1.3B Short After Energy Crisis (www.bloomberg.com)

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Clubhouse uploads entire contacts phone numbers (twitter.com)

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The Emerging Ship (webup.org)

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Influencer Cancellation Insurance (https://www.filaxis.pro)

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I'll pay you to read my book (2013) (kk.org)

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What Makes a Community? (2020) (buttondown.email)

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Ultrasound triggers brain's waste disposal system in Alzheimer's patients (newatlas.com)

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Algorithmic Pricing is Price Gouging $31,000 fine to Hotel (www.oregonlive.com)

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Charter of the National Association of Wheeled Bin Washers (www.nawbw.co.uk)

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The Origin of the “MIT License” (ieeexplore.ieee.org)

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Cruise Ship Cleaner to Developer (www.nocsdegree.com)

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Atlassian Acquires Chartio (www.atlassian.com)

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Think you don’t need a VPN? Here are five times ordinary people might need a VPN (blog.mozilla.org)

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Legal Design, a designer’s perspective on this new practice (blog.link-value.fr)

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Born to Be Posthumous (2018) (4columns.org)

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Tutankhamun’s Ostriches (www.historytoday.com)

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Mars Is No Earth (www.theatlantic.com)

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APPL forced to add iPhone, MacBook repairability score to comply with French law (www.theverge.com)

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PEP 634, pattern matching, was merged into CPython today (twitter.com)

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Terry Gilliam on cutout animation (1974) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Cosmopolitan Libc: your build-once run-anywhere C library (justine.lol)

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Why Is the U.S. Murder Rate Spiking? (www.bloomberg.com)

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Google's Stadia Problem (www.bloomberg.com)

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Why Higher Education Needs to Be Disrupted (hbr.org)

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How did India go from 90k cases per day to just over 10k (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Anybody want to work on something together? (item?id=26280842)

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Startups Sometimes Stretch the Truth (www.bloomberg.com)

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Why France’s new 'repairability index’ is a big deal (grist.org)

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Lufthansa to launch a “Corona Lounge” in Moscow to immunise rich Germans (intellinews.com)

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California's net neutrality law can go forward, judge rules (www.nbcnews.com)

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Griddy Barred from Texas Power Market for Payment Breach (www.bloomberg.com)

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Prosecutors Can’t Keep Forensic Evidence Secret from Defendants (www.eff.org)

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Facebook Considers Facial Recognition for Upcoming Smart Glasses (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Git clone any sub-directories/parts of a GitHub repo (github.com)

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Militia Groups Want to ‘Blow Up the Capitol,’ a Police Chief Testifies (www.nytimes.com)

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Google spent tens of millions of dollars PER Stadia port (twitter.com)

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Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S. (www.seattletimes.com)

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Black America, 1895 (publicdomainreview.org)

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Show HN: Mind Graph (mind-graph.herokuapp.com)

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100M Edits to OpenStreetMap (blog.openstreetmap.org)

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How Google's Grand Plan to Make Its Own Games Fell Apart (www.wired.com)

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Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021 (discourse.codinghorror.com)

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Just-World Hypothesis (en.wikipedia.org)

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Librsvg, Rust, and non-mainstream architectures (people.gnome.org)

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Ask HN: New team, good tutorials on Linux network admin/ HA db concepts? (item?id=26274420)

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Ask HN: Any companies that pay in BTC? (item?id=26276591)

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Russia Refutes Criticisms of Its Missiles by Showing One Blowing Up a Hospital (www.thedrive.com)

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Summary: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (www.chestergrant.com)

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Resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration (undeadly.org)

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How Korea Became a Forgotten War (jacobinmag.com)

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Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts with Its Software (pitchfork.com)

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The Riddle of the Square (www.chrbutler.com)

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Bots hyped up GameStop on major social media platforms, analysis finds (www.reuters.com)

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Cosmologists create 4k virtual universes to solve Big Bang mystery (www.livescience.com)

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Margaret E. Knight (en.wikipedia.org)

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Malicious Mozilla Firefox Extension Allows Gmail Takeover (threatpost.com)

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OnionShare 2.3 (blog.torproject.org)

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“Bit Bucket” and other names for /dev/null (www.putorius.net)

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Ophelia (YC W20) is hiring a Software Engineer to help combat the opioid crisis (coda.io)

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Mighty (YC S19) is hiring engineers to make Google Chrome faster (www.notion.so)

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