hackerNews

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Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] (www.supremecourt.gov)

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Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k (robertchen.cc)

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Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds (www.nytimes.com)

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Writing tools I learned from The Economist (builtbywords.substack.com)

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Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 (uk.help.yahoo.com)

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The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)

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Things I Hate About PostgreSQL (2020) (rbranson.medium.com)

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Legalizing Gay Marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra (waffleironer.medium.com)

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Show HN: My personal website is a shell (https://aava.sh)

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Django 3.2 Released (www.djangoproject.com)

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Have I Been Facebooked? (haveibeenfacebooked.com)

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Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal (www.indiatoday.in)

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AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years (forums.aws.amazon.com)

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Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation (www.lesswrong.com)

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“I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies (arxiv.org)

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Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides (www.bbc.com)

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How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages (browser.engineering)

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Things I learned while developing a billing system (arnon.dk)

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Booking.com fined €475,000 for reporting data breach too late (therecord.media)

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Elixir and Phoenix after two years (nts.strzibny.name)

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Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats (github.blog)

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Facebook Analytics will no longer be available (www.facebook.com)

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One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault (www.ctvnews.ca)

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Show HN: A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer (written in rust) (github.com)

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Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead (www.cnbc.com)

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Clubhouse Payments (www.joinclubhouse.com)

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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats (www.backblaze.com)

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To upgrade the SSD in a Mac Pro, you need a second Mac computer (support.apple.com)

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Neuroscientists discover molecular mechanism that allows memories to form (2020) (news.mit.edu)

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Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software (kilianvalkhof.com)

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We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals (www.theguardian.com)

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Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection (www.cdc.gov)

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NASA's helicopter survives first freezing night on Mars (edition.cnn.com)

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Git as a NoSql Database (2016) (www.kenneth-truyers.net)

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Petition to LG to open source their phones (www.change.org)

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Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux? (item?id=26679749)

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8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (imgur.com)

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The Economist's Style Guide [pdf] (cdn.static-economist.com)

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NASA Startup Studio (www.fedtech.io)

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Condition: A 64KB WebGL Intro (github.com)

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Apple Can Own I/O to Own the Universe (diff.substack.com)

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Coinbase Independent Directors Have Close Company Ties (www.wsj.com)

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Archive.org is archiving every Tweet (archive.org)

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Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture (www.quantamagazine.org)

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FDA approves new ADHD drug for children (www.axios.com)

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How People Learn to Become Resilient (2016) (www.newyorker.com)

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Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD (inf.news)

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Tim O'Reilly: The Internet Is Being Scapegoated in a Lot of Ways (2019) (www.zeit.de)

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Don’t Copy That Surface (blog.chromium.org)

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Show HN: See the stock trades your representative is making (item?id=26700983)

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The myth of excess vacant housing distracts from solutions (www.sgvtribune.com)

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Early Lisp Part II (funcall.blogspot.com)

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How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (ourworldindata.org)

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Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (rrj.ca)

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Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves (www.vanityfair.com)

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Ask HN: What will be the future differentiator in electric vehicles? (item?id=26698371)

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A detailed guide to SSO on Kubernetes (www.talkingquickly.co.uk)

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Antidepressants and medical uncertainty (acesounderglass.com)

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'I will always be someone's porn': Pornhub (beta.ctvnews.ca)

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Four ways to speed up trains on the New Silk Road (2020) (www.railfreight.com)

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Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ (www.bbc.co.uk)

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UCLA researchers create all-optical diffractive deep neural network (2018) (www.photonics.com)

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Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21% (www.axios.com)

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Schoonschip – Unique residential area: floating, sustainable, circular (www.spaceandmatter.nl)

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553M Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy (www.eff.org)

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Album-a-Day (crapart.spacebar.org)

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The Mythology of Red Bull (www.readthegeneralist.com)

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What are the chances of a third world war? [pdf] (www.fooledbyrandomness.com)

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Zaphod Beeblebrox's Brain and the 59th row of Pascal's Triangle [pdf] (dms.umontreal.ca)

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Oatly: The New Coke (every.to)

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Sunlight Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 8x Faster Than Initially Assumed (interestingengineering.com)

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Carbon's interstellar journey to Earth (phys.org)

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Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony (www.vice.com)

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Let’s Destroy Bitcoin (medium.com)

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Tesla hacker unveils what the Model 3/Y cabin camera can see (www.teslaoracle.com)

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Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019) (www.mcall.com)

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New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with Australia (www.axios.com)

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Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case (www.theverge.com)

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Linear Algebra for Everyone (math.mit.edu)

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Build Audio Search with Vggish (github.com)

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Announcing Open Source C# standardization (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Ampie finds HN discussions of any URL and good pages on the same domain (ampie.app)

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SBCL 2.1.3 Released (www.sbcl.org)

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Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals (perens.com)

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Covid Super Strains? There Are None, Says Virologist (www.thestreet.com)

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Show HN: ESP32 Walkie-Talkie Using UDP Broadcast and ESP-Now (www.youtube.com)

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Get Ready for AppTrackingTransparency (developer.apple.com)

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Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors (www.schneier.com)

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As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time (twitter.com)

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Running Windows with No Services (2005, updated in 2009) (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Distributed Remote Debugging for Python (github.com)

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‘The crate escape’: Irishmen who helped mail friend home from Australia sought (www.irishtimes.com)

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Why is /usr/bin/test 4kiB smaller than /usr/bin/[? (www.vidarholen.net)

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Uber is revoking CA drivers ability to set prices and preview destinations (www.businessinsider.com)

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This Startup is solving epilepsy with biosensors and AI (epilert.io)

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Java early stage draft: Functional transformation of immutable objects (github.com)

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Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang (www.newyorker.com)

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Mother-of-four, 27, dies of cancer after check-ups were halted by pandemic Rules (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Why Shortages of a $1 Chip Sparked Crisis in the Global Economy (www.bloomberg.com)

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Robinhood and other 'low cost' brokers still quietly screwing over their users (www.businessinsider.com)

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Credit Suisse unloads another $2.3B of Stocks Tied to Archegos (finance.yahoo.com)

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The NFT bubble might be bursting already (www.cnn.com)

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Honey, I shrunk the Arduino core (nerdralph.blogspot.com)

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Cobble_stone.jpg is everywhere – Texture Archaeology (www.youtube.com)

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PyPI Is Down (status.python.org)

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Revenge of the Winklevii (www.forbes.com)

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Ask HN: Do you know why new high-capacity WD drives make this weird noise? (item?id=26696326)

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Debt Clock (en.wikipedia.org)

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Madame Comrade (aeon.co)

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A Tale of Two Tongues (believermag.com)

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BitClout is a scam, change my mind (ruky.me)

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Tesla’s toxic superfans are giving community a bad name as stories go mainstream (electrek.co)

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pnrtscr.com, a modern jump scare (screamer) (www.reddit.com)

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Sorry Scrum, the Game Might Be over for You (medium.com)

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The U.S. Helped the Biggest Cartel in Mexico Traffic Drugs and Commit Murders (narco.news)

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Uber may stop letting drivers see destinations and name prices (www.sfchronicle.com)

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The collapse of 'big steel' should be a warning for climate skeptics (thehill.com)

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Microsoft Reveals Truths About Working from Home (www.zdnet.com)

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Revisiting the Dead (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Cullen Hoback: “I’m the guy who made that QAnon series on HBO Max. AMA!” (old.reddit.com)

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Prince – Convert HTML to PDF with CSS (www.princexml.com)

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Online dating isn’t easy – especially when you’re asexual (2018) (www.theverge.com)

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Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: Tidbyt – A connected, programmable LED matrix display [KS] (www.kickstarter.com)

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Archegos Appeared, Then Vanished (www.bloomberg.com)

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I lost 25 pounds using my Peloton (www.trevormckendrick.com)

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Optimal Stopping (en.wikipedia.org)

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Someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the internet (www.theverge.com)

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Is Outside Air Covid Safe? Are Masks Needed Outdoors? (cliffmass.blogspot.com)

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Apple Rejecting Apps with Fingerprinting Enabled as iOS14 Privacy Enforcement (www.forbes.com)

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Letting go: my battle to help my parents die a good death (www.theguardian.com)

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Why Some People Think They're Great Even When Their Work Is Terrible (www.forbes.com)

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Does Consciousness Come from the Brains Electromagnetic Field? (aeon.co)

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Fedora Council Statement on Richard Stallman Rejoining FSF Board (fedoramagazine.org)

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EMA Official Links AstraZeneca Vaccine and Thrombosis (www.barrons.com)

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Bidenomics, Explained (noahpinion.substack.com)

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Space hurricane of whirling plasma spotted above Earth’s North Pole (astronomy.com)

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How NASA Keeps Earth's Germs from Reaching Mars (2020) (www.theringer.com)

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Modern Treasury (YC S18) Is Hiring a Senior Product Designer (angel.co)

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Corrily (YC W21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)

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