hackerNews

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Actually Portable Executables (ahgamut.github.io)

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A Vim Guide for Advanced Users (thevaluable.dev)

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Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning (github.com)

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In Defense of Dumb TVs (frame.work)

431 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030203 366 comments

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Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups (github.com)

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A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest (ghuntley.com)

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SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak (edition.cnn.com)

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Netcode: Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (ki.infil.net)

285 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030200 104 comments

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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine? (godotengine.org)

259 points first seen 2021022806 last seen 2021030106 146 comments

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Signal Desktop is corrupting its database (github.com)

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SolarWind, enough with the password already (gru.gq)

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The curious case of the handlebar bag scam (cyclingtips.com)

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TLD Graveyard (dzdb.caida.org)

180 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030121 140 comments

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Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads (www.bbc.com)

178 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030118 96 comments

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Spaceprob.es catalogues all the probes that still communicate with Earth (spaceprob.es)

178 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030200 30 comments

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Alternative shell with native support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, etc. (github.com)

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Try the new try.haxe! (community.haxe.org)

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A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system (www.tum.de)

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A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii. Archaeologists Are Wowed (www.npr.org)

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Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent (libcinder.org)

161 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030106 37 comments

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New Bone Cell Type Identified (www.genengnews.com)

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Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users (www.forbes.com)

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Coinbase Mafia Shows How Tight a Circle Holds Sway over Bitcoin (www.bloomberg.com)

149 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030200 240 comments

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A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (www.wired.com)

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Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming (www.cs.tufts.edu)

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In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) (dynomight.home.blog)

127 points first seen 2021022815 last seen 2021030106 280 comments

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L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash (www.latimes.com)

119 points first seen 2021022818 last seen 2021030115 132 comments

19

Making hibernation work under Linux Lockdown (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Amazon rainforest rock art 'depicts giant Ice Age creatures' (2020) (www.bbc.com)

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Apollo in Real Time – A journey through the Apollo missions (apolloinrealtime.org)

106 points first seen 2021022815 last seen 2021030115 18 comments

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NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (a16z.com)

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Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf] (web.cs.ucla.edu)

104 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030103 73 comments

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Translating My Z3 Tutorial to Coq (www.philipzucker.com)

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As important as the Beetle? Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4 (arstechnica.com)

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2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter [pdf] (www.berkshirehathaway.com)

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The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing (www.tomshardware.com)

87 points first seen 2021022809 last seen 2021030121 158 comments

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The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing (www.atlasobscura.com)

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How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your Applications (pingcap.com)

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What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective? (alex-pardee.medium.com)

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Crypto-Anarchism (en.wikipedia.org)

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Drivers locked out of their cars at Royston Tesco (www.bbc.co.uk)

69 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030115 95 comments

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The Ternary Manifesto (2012) (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu)

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Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent (www.geosociety.org)

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Apple works with China but not the FBI (2016) (www.latimes.com)

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Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual report [pdf] (www.berkshirehathaway.com)

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The Mac price crash of 2021 (www.zdnet.com)

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A religious festival in Ethiopia turned into a massacre (www.cnn.com)

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Launch HN: Spruce (YC W21) – OSS for User Owned and Provably Authentic Data (item?id=26285687)

61 points first seen 2021022806 last seen 2021030115 9 comments

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Visualization of Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus (pbellon.github.io)

61 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030109 26 comments

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Transhumanism: What's the Plan? (2020) (paulskallas.substack.com)

59 points first seen 2021022809 last seen 2021022821 70 comments

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Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble (www.bbc.com)

58 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021022812 110 comments

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First vaccine to immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech (academictimes.com)

57 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030106 4 comments

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Hardware SAS Raid on the Raspberry Pi CM4 (www.jeffgeerling.com)

57 points first seen 2021022815 last seen 2021030103 19 comments

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Void Linux Switching Back to OpenSSL (voidlinux.org)

56 points first seen 2021022818 last seen 2021030103 23 comments

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From Idea to Printed Circuit Board in One Week (patchr.io)

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Kapil Gupta: Conquering the Mind [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Megastructures Superweapons and Global Architectures in Sci-Fi Computer Games (www.academia.edu)

48 points first seen 2021022809 last seen 2021030103 8 comments

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DMR's Thesis: Unpacking an Enigma (https://dmrthesis.net)

48 points first seen 2021022809 last seen 2021030100 11 comments

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Catfish Charlie, the CIA’s Robotic Spy (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Norman Golb, Dead Sea Scrolls Contrarian, Is Dead at 92 (www.nytimes.com)

45 points first seen 2021022818 last seen 2021030106 40 comments

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The Algorithmic Genius of Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” (lithub.com)

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Show HN: Rich Text Math Editing on the Web with Markdown and AsciiMath (writer.math.dev)

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Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash (www.vice.com)

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Exercise generates immune cells in bone (www.nature.com)

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McKinsey suffers from collective self-delusion (www.economist.com)

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Igalia will restart their (Chrome) MathML work in Q2 2021 (mathml.igalia.com)

41 points first seen 2021022809 last seen 2021022818 14 comments

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Balloonomania (en.wikipedia.org)

41 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030115 21 comments

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Single-Shot and First Doses First (marginalrevolution.com)

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Massively parallel ultrafast random bit generation with a chip-scale laser (science.sciencemag.org)

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Build a Star Tracker for Your DSLR and Make Your Own Star Charts (www.instructables.com)

39 points first seen 2021022809 last seen 2021022821 3 comments

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Optimal boarding method for airline passengers (2008) (arxiv.org)

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We’re removing ads from Plato (platoteam.medium.com)

33 points first seen 2021022806 last seen 2021022809 31 comments

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Phantom Types in Gleam (blog.pd-andy.dev)

32 points first seen 2021022806 last seen 2021030100 11 comments

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Creating Serendipity with Python (blog.cloudflare.com)

30 points first seen 2021022806 last seen 2021022821 22 comments

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Stop Being Proud of Complexity (danielmiessler.com)

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AMD, TSMC and Imec Show Their Chiplet Playbooks at Isscc (www.eetimes.com)

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Airliner Encountered Unidentified Fast-Moving Cylindrical Object over New Mexico (www.thedrive.com)

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Querybook – Pinterest’s open-sourced big data IDE via a notebook interface (www.querybook.org)

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McDonald's and other chains are giving their drive-thrus the Jetsons treatment (www.cnn.com)

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The Rise of Software 2.0 (pub.towardsai.net)

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Texas woman sues Griddy after being charged $9,546 for 19 days of power (arstechnica.com)

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Concrete Semantics with Isabelle/HOL (concrete-semantics.org)

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Electricity needed to mine Bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries' (www.theguardian.com)

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Surge Pricing, Artificial Intelligence, and Responsibility (medium.com)

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Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language for Unix and Windows – Now Open Source (www.pagetable.com)

20 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021030103 13 comments

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Show HN: Olvy – Beautiful release notes that add joy to shipping software (https://olvy.co)

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Review: Perlroth's Book on the Cyberarms Market (blog.erratasec.com)

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So Long as You Carry a Cellphone, the Government Can Track You (reason.com)

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Stadia undershot to the tune of “hundreds of thousands” of users (arstechnica.com)

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Apple is complying with Chinese shell companies to take down my apps (item?id=26287995)

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Ask HN: Works of fiction that have inspired you to solve programming problems? (item?id=26286306)

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Do Python developers want static typing? (developers.slashdot.org)

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The Pyramid Principle (medium.com)

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Ask HN: How does a private, nearly-inactive Twitter account get suspended? (item?id=26289349)

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The Wisdom of Ernesto Colnago (www.rouleur.cc)

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Inside a German U-boat (mashable.com)

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Was Henry VIII a Psychopath? (tudorscribe.medium.com)

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Criminals laundered $2.8B in 2019 using crypto exchanges (www.technologyreview.com)

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Google Analytics is being shimmed by Firefox (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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Customers want to know why Amazon removed Clarence Thomas documentary (reclaimthenet.org)

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Gene Therapy in One Eye Improves Vision in Both Eyes (www.the-scientist.com)

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Dirty gold is infiltrating world markets under faked brands (2019) (www.aljazeera.com)

9 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030100 0 comments

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Show HN: A hybrid messaging/photo message board (mebeam.com)

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Horizonator: Terrain renderer based on SRTM DEMs (notes.secretsauce.net)

8 points first seen 2021022818 last seen 2021030103 0 comments

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The Postmodern Ponzi (www.stephendiehl.com)

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Scientists Discover Target for Stroke Therapy in Blood-Brain Barrier (www.tus.ac.jp)

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What’s Missing in the Electric-Vehicle Revolution: Enough Places to Plug In (www.wsj.com)

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Get Behind the M.U.L.E (2003) (www.salon.com)

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Nikola admits to making “inaccurate” statements under disgraced founder (arstechnica.com)

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The NYPD deploys a robot dog again (www.theverge.com)

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Heat pumps are one of the easiest ways for homeowners to fight climate change (www.theatlantic.com)

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Old Organizers Collection (old-organizers.com)

6 points first seen 2021022812 last seen 2021022818 0 comments

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Ask HN: Am I blowing an acquihire offer? (item?id=26289994)

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A short but highly technical history of DRAM (twitter.com)

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State of the OpenVMS x86 Port (www.youtube.com)

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We sequenced the cave bear genome using a 360k-year-old ear bone (theconversation.com)

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Sonic Pi and Ableton Live (medium.com)

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Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second (timvisee.com)

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Archaeologists find unique ceremonial vehicle near Pompeii (www.theguardian.com)

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Katzenpost (katzenpost.mixnetworks.org)

3 points first seen 2021022818 last seen 2021022818 0 comments

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Intro to Ephemeral Environments (releaseapp.io)

3 points first seen 2021022821 last seen 2021030100 0 comments

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Fly.io (YC W20) Is Hiring Elixir Developer Advocates (Remote) (item?id=26288121)

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