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Show HN: Beautiful PDFs from HTML (HTTPS://pdf.math.dev)

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New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials (www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com)

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Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, driving up prices (www.wsj.com)

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LG is getting out of the mobile phone business (www.axios.com)

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Ubiquiti All but Confirms Breach Response Iniquity (krebsonsecurity.com)

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HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach (haveibeenpwned.com)

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I can only think that modern front end development has failed (twitter.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users (www.businessinsider.com)

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My apartment was built on toxic waste (sfbayview.com)

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How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection (jychp.medium.com)

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How Did Microsoft Make Flight Simulator Seem So Real? (www.airspacemag.com)

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Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps? (item?id=26693959)

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Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent (itep.org)

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Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface (www.brown.edu)

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Cesium for Unreal Now Available (cesium.com)

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PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL (postgis.net)

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How Netflix is creating a common European culture (www.economist.com)

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Tesla Owners Asking What Happens If 'Full Self Driving' Isn't Real (jalopnik.com)

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Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years (www.theguardian.com)

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Are Deep Neural Networks Dramatically Overfitted? (lilianweng.github.io)

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When Feynman Met Dirac (www.cantorsparadise.com)

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Against Hickelism (noahpinion.substack.com)

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AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible to Spectre-Like Vulnerability (www.tomshardware.com)

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Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool (acoup.blog)

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WebOS OSE 2.10.0 Release (www.webosose.org)

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The Lost Apps of the 80s (scripting.com)

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Exploring Databases Visually (di.nmfay.com)

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The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption (www.wired.com)

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How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me (betterprogramming.pub)

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When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Can build CRUD apps, what now? (item?id=26693494)

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On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (yihui.org)

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Show HN: Databunker – a GDPR compliant, secure storage for personal data (PII) (github.com)

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Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

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Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal' (www.bbc.com)

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Egypt holds grand procession of ancient mummies in Cairo (www.axios.com)

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Space Jam 2 (www.spacejam2.com)

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Waymo ordered “up to” 82,000 vehicles in 2018. Today, it has “well over 600.” (arstechnica.com)

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Ink Traps and Pals (tosche.net)

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2I/Borisov, the First Interstellar Comet to Have Visited Our Solar System (www.newsclick.in)

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Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019 (twitter.com)

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Deep learning model compression methods (rachitsingh.com)

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StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery (github.com)

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A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018) (terathon.com)

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Semiconductor Startups – Are they back? (semiwiki.com)

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Scop – a 3D model viewer written in C++20 and Vulkan (github.com)

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Lower-Income Americans Get Cheated on Property Taxes (www.nytimes.com)

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Where have all the kindergartners gone? (hechingerreport.org)

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The Economics of Falling Populations (www.economist.com)

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Laser: Learning a Latent Action Space for Efficient Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)

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Roman Kroitor, who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed film (arstechnica.com)

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How Josh Comeau pulled off a $500.000 Course Launch (renenauheimer.substack.com)

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Sputnik V vaccine-neutralization escape by SARS-CoV-2 Spike variants (www.medrxiv.org)

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France reports three new cases of thrombosis, more deaths after AstraZeneca jabs (www.rfi.fr)

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Bloo Lo-Fi Wireframe Kit (bloouikit.com)

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Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs (www.cell.com)

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The EU has archived all of the “Euromyths” printed in UK media (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

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A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument (www.mdpi.com)

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History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (daniel.haxx.se)

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Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine (science.sciencemag.org)

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Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind woman refused rides (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Live Feed of the HN Top 30 as an IRC Channel (www.devever.net)

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Show HN: Wayland Explorer – Easily read Wayland protocol documentation online (wayland.app)

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Show HN: Test if your (US) phone number is in the leaked Facebook data (www.thenewseachday.com)

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Make It Your Own: Why I Laser Engraved My Camera (petapixel.com)

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Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (1999) [pdf] (www.stuartcheshire.org)

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The Redis Manifesto (2011) (oldblog.antirez.com)

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Creating a side project when you don't need the money (josemdev.com)

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Why Julia Is Turning Heads in 2021 (www.nextplatform.com)

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Show HN: Map of active customers for landing page (github.com)

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Blackwater photography is helping scientists gain insights into fish larvae (www.nytimes.com)

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I wrote the world's worst text editor (2020) (briancallahan.net)

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George R.R. Martin Writes Everything in WordStar 4.0 on a DOS Machine (2014) (techcrunch.com)

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Linux distros without systemd (2019) (ungleich.ch)

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Amazon gears up to defend itself against escalating antitrust scrutiny (www.seattletimes.com)

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Sea slugs can shed their body, including heart, and regenerated a new body (www.cell.com)

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Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants (www.in-ulm.de)

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The Internet has been cut in Myanmar for the 50th consecutive night (twitter.com)

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Overlay Fact Sheet (overlayfactsheet.com)

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Eytzinger Binary Search (algorithmica.org)

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Get Started With Freelancing: A Beginners Guide for Software Developers (sunilc.medium.com)

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The reason some London Tube stations have extra doors – human hair (www.mylondon.news)

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Sims 2 Dev Thread (twitter.com)

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Loot boxes too similar to “problem gambling” to avoid regulation, report says (arstechnica.com)

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Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy (en.wikipedia.org)

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Mars Monolith (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: I wrote an HN bot to suggest HTTPS url when people post HTTP URLs (item?id=26693882)

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QNAP NAS critical bugs disclosure delay expires (securingsam.com)

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Mars Helicopter now on Martian soil (twitter.com)

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Old vs. New Spacejam.com Load Performance (twitter.com)

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All over the Shop: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Archaeologists accidentally expose Israeli nuclear facility (www.abc.net.au)

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Evidence of Antarctic glacier's tipping point confirmed for first time (phys.org)

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String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea' (www.theguardian.com)

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Underground “zombie” peat fires release 100 times the carbon of wildfires (thebulletin.org)

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Silicon Valley Foundation, WEF Announce Global Initiative for Vaccine Passports (unlimitedhangout.com)

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Arch Linux's Install Media Adds “Archinstall” for Quick/Easy Installations (www.phoronix.com)

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Yelp is planning a comeback with reservations and pickup tools (www.modernretail.co)

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Welsh rabbits serve up prehistoric finds on tiny Skokholm Island (www.theguardian.com)

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Overly Attached Girlfriend NFT Sells for $411,000 (decrypt.co)

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Hear 'New' Nirvana Song Written, Performed by Artificial Intelligence (www.rollingstone.com)

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What was Marx right about? (twitter.com)

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Trump used dark patterns to trick supporters into donating millions (www.theverge.com)

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LG to end loss-making smartphone business (asia.nikkei.com)

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Russian 'Lord of the Rings' TV Adaptation from 30 Years Ago Discovered (www.newsweek.com)

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Diamond Batteries Are Forever (www.zmescience.com)

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Debating the impact of machine-created art (nautil.us)

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China Readies ‘Big Island’ GPU to Tackle AMD and Nvidia, Up to 37 TFLOPs at 300W (wccftech.com)

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Romani Ite Domum (en.wikipedia.org)

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Imagination is the sixth sense. Be careful how you use it – Paul Giamatti (cont) (aeon.co)

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Tesla owner with Mustang Mach-E reports threats on social media from Tesla fans (www.freep.com)

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How I Became a Master of Memory (2011) (www.discovermagazine.com)

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Off-Season: The New Jersey Photographs of Tyler Haughey (placesjournal.org)

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LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business (www.theverge.com)

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LG officially shutting down worldwide mobile phone business (9to5google.com)

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Real-world data shows vaccines kicking butt–including against scary variant (arstechnica.com)

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The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues (2016) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Bucket Shop (Stock Market) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Is Substack Worth $650M? (techcrunch.com)

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LG to Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide (www.lgnewsroom.com)

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Ask HN: How do you grow a pod? (item?id=26695106)

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Engineer – must not have experience in Node, Ruby, PHP, ASP, .NET (twitter.com)

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Is Musical Notation Turing-Complete? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

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Symphony of a Thousand Millennia (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Show HN: A decentralised VC firm using Bitclout? (item?id=26693217)

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Paul SIMON breaks down just how ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ came to be (twitter.com)

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Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Sales Development Manager in Denver and Vienna (bitmovin.com)

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QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Cloud Engineer (Node.js, Kubernetes) (questdb.io)

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