hackerNews

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I Refused to Become an FBI Informant. The Government Put Me on the No Fly List (www.aclu.org)

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I hope work from home continues (www.ryanmercer.com)

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Programming is hard (dorinlazar.ro)

563 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040815 460 comments

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Signal Adds a Payments Feature–With a Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency (www.wired.com)

527 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040900 633 comments

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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (www.cantorsparadise.com)

469 points first seen 2021040712 last seen 2021040803 245 comments

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Eliminating Data Races in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)

464 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040818 118 comments

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Fast, Safe PNG Decoder (nigeltao.github.io)

449 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040903 135 comments

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7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? (www.pewresearch.org)

324 points first seen 2021040712 last seen 2021040903 377 comments

5

How We Bootstrapped a $1M ARR Email Client (missiveapp.com)

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Rust in the Android Platform (security.googleblog.com)

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8

Apache Mesos to be moved to Attic (lists.apache.org)

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Lyra – enabling voice calls for the next billion users (opensource.googleblog.com)

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6

Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit – Commercial 2D Game Engine (dragonruby.org)

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In Support of Richard Stallman (stallmansupport.org)

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Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries (github.com)

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Jeff Bezos comes out in support of increased corporate taxes (www.cnn.com)

216 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040815 373 comments

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ClojureScript 1.10.844 (clojurescript.org)

171 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040721 67 comments

13

Parser Combinators in Elixir (serokell.io)

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Jakub Konka Hired Full Time (ziglang.org)

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Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi (news.cornell.edu)

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A majority of uninfected adults show pre-existing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (insight.jci.org)

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8

Lisp as an alternative to Java (norvig.com)

150 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040809 86 comments

10

An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem (www.govtech.com)

149 points first seen 2021040712 last seen 2021040800 132 comments

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Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021 (freebsdfoundation.org)

140 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040709 96 comments

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IPython as a System Shell (ipython.readthedocs.io)

137 points first seen 2021040700 last seen 2021040800 59 comments

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Credit Suisse Loses 4.7B (www.wsj.com)

137 points first seen 2021040700 last seen 2021040718 93 comments

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Intel Gen 3 Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake SP): Generationally Big, Competitively Small (www.anandtech.com)

136 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040806 244 comments

6

Animation of Electric Machines (people.ece.umn.edu)

135 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040809 17 comments

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First C compiler ported to GCC (github.com)

134 points first seen 2021040718 last seen 2021040809 82 comments

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Intel Launches 10nm 'Ice Lake' Datacenter CPU with Up to 40 Cores (www.hpcwire.com)

132 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040706 108 comments

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Update on Git.php.net Incident (externals.io)

132 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040900 69 comments

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Bevy 0.5: data oriented game engine built in Rust (bevyengine.org)

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Sublime Text 4 – Build 4100 has native Apple Silicon support (twitter.com)

127 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040709 37 comments

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Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (2015) (www.dein.fr)

126 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040800 72 comments

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Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe (www.bbc.com)

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Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator (www.amusingplanet.com)

120 points first seen 2021040718 last seen 2021040806 77 comments

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Show HN: Skruv – No-dependency, no-build, small JavaScript framework (skruv.io)

119 points first seen 2021040721 last seen 2021040818 154 comments

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Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK (devblogs.microsoft.com)

113 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040800 48 comments

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Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright (github.com)

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Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues' firings – email (www.reuters.com)

96 points first seen 2021040709 last seen 2021040715 76 comments

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You can now turn on Nvidia's excellent noise cancellation with any GeForce GPU (www.pcgamer.com)

96 points first seen 2021040721 last seen 2021040809 62 comments

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The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time (buildthestage.com)

91 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040706 78 comments

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Adjustable, low-impact keeb is about as comfortable as it gets (hackaday.com)

89 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040800 73 comments

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What Goodreads could have been (notfunatparties.substack.com)

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It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore (www.androidpolice.com)

89 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040706 45 comments

10

Django 3.2 – News on compressed fixtures and fixtures compression (www.paulox.net)

85 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040800 42 comments

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WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion (www.newyorker.com)

83 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040709 127 comments

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Do Games Like Factorio or Eve Online Sap the Intellectual Potential of Humanity? (www.reddit.com)

78 points first seen 2021040700 last seen 2021040703 144 comments

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The Penguin Oil Industry (thetravellingcheetah.com)

77 points first seen 2021040718 last seen 2021040809 51 comments

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Joyce Project (www.joyceproject.com)

75 points first seen 2021040721 last seen 2021040803 25 comments

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Exodus: Easily migrate your JVM code from Maven to Bazel (github.com)

68 points first seen 2021040712 last seen 2021040803 66 comments

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April 7: The Internet's symbolic birth date through RFC 1 (tools.ietf.org)

68 points first seen 2021040721 last seen 2021040812 10 comments

10

Show HN: AgoBrowse: Picture books for kids without distractions (bitbucket.org)

61 points first seen 2021040718 last seen 2021040900 35 comments

16

Ludus Latrunculorum (en.wikipedia.org)

60 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040800 8 comments

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The Facts on News Reports About Facebook Data (about.fb.com)

60 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040721 53 comments

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Sublime Writer (tonsky.me)

55 points first seen 2021040709 last seen 2021040800 9 comments

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Relighting and Color Grading with Machine Learning (martinanderson.substack.com)

47 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040806 9 comments

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Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet? (www.health.gov.au)

47 points first seen 2021040721 last seen 2021040721 43 comments

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From Academia to Startups – Common Founder Foibles (www.celinehh.com)

43 points first seen 2021040721 last seen 2021040812 13 comments

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Ordering Requests to Accelerate Disk I/O (pkolaczk.github.io)

41 points first seen 2021040709 last seen 2021040721 19 comments

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All Wikipedia in SQLLite Database (old.reddit.com)

41 points first seen 2021040718 last seen 2021040803 0 comments

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Rapidly Build SaaS apps on ASP.NET/ServiceStack based on zero-trust security (aspsecuritykit.net)

40 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040721 23 comments

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Ask HN: What is the secret to getting a product owner job as an engineer? (item?id=26719010)

37 points first seen 2021040712 last seen 2021040800 27 comments

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Clear link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots, EMA official (www.reuters.com)

36 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040703 36 comments

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NYPD Has Misled the Public About Its Use of Facial Recognition Tool Clearview AI (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Researchers estimate the richest 1% dodge taxes on over a fifth of their income (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Branch Specialization (distill.pub)

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Fortran is back on the top 20 TIOBE index list (www.zdnet.com)

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Scientists pinpoint source of “impossible” EmDrive's thrust (newatlas.com)

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Woman earning $750 a week gambles $3.7M (www.abc.net.au)

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Signal Just Made One Years Worth of Server Source Code Available in One Dump (linuxreviews.org)

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The Computational Expressiveness of a Model Train Set: A Paperlet (www.scottaaronson.com)

29 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040800 9 comments

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TypeScript 4.3 Beta (devblogs.microsoft.com)

29 points first seen 2021040706 last seen 2021040709 2 comments

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Ask HN: Can we collaborate on a IP Address or Regex blacklist? (item?id=26719964)

29 points first seen 2021040715 last seen 2021040715 35 comments

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You Otter Be Able to Stream That Audio: Open Hardware Eclipses Chromecast Audio (hackaday.com)

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China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (www.wsj.com)

27 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040806 11 comments

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The Zeus of Economics Has Died (www.forbes.com)

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State of Clojure 2021 Results (clojure.org)

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LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE (yro.slashdot.org)

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Show HN: Ngx_waf – Open source, Handy, High performance Nginx firewall module (github.com)

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Why ranking employees by performance backfires (www.ft.com)

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Officials Say California Will Completely Reopen June 15th (wild949.iheart.com)

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Best to avoid using the “Have I been facebooked” website (code.express)

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Q Accidentally Outed Himself, but QAnon Followers Don’t Care (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: Noat.Cards I make a Quizlet/Anki alternative (noat.cards)

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Migration to PostgreSQL databases can also be done using FDW (www.migops.com)

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Show HN: Birthday.report – open-source birthday calendar (https://birthday.report)

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Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted from Group (www.bloomberg.com)

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SAP: It takes exploit devs 72 hours to turn our security patches into a weapon (www.theregister.com)

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Facebook, Apple and Niantic Bet People Are Ready for Augmented-Reality Glasses (www.wsj.com)

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Great tits change their traditions for the better (phys.org)

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Army has Microsoft move to HoloLens production phase (blogs.microsoft.com)

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You Can Learn Anything (www.youtube.com)

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How I built a €25K Machine Learning Rig (www.emilwallner.com)

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More than 4k blood tests suggest: Our bodies age in three shifts (www.sciencealert.com)

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Ask HN: The best Cookie Warning popup you've seen recently? (item?id=26721749)

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Iron Fish – Privacy for Everyone (ironfish.network)

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GitHub Sponsors: One Time Payments (twitter.com)

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Superuser Batch Downloading (nyxt.atlas.engineer)

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NYPD Misled the Public About Its Use of Facial Recognition Tool Clearview AI (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Mining Bitcoin on a Game Boy (slowly) (www.theverge.com)

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Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? (www.theguardian.com)

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CloudQuery SDK: Query Anything with SQL (www.cloudquery.io)

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What Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak? (www.wired.com)

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Coinbase estimates Q1 revenue jumped nine-fold to about $1.8B (www.cnbc.com)

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0

Spotify Apps Suck (item?id=26720829)

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Rick Moody on How a Photograph Can Tell an Entire Story (lithub.com)

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Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4B Value (www.bloomberg.com)

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Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked? (krebsonsecurity.com)

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2p and £2 coin production suspended for ten years (2020) (www.accountingweb.co.uk)

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I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget (www.wired.com)

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Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted from Group (news.yahoo.com)

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Norway tried, and failed, to gift Finland a mountain for its 100th birthday (norwaytoday.info)

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Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities (www.protocol.com)

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Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths (www.theverge.com)

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Scott Galloway: This Is the Best Time to Start a Business (marker.medium.com)

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Only 15% of Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby (2019) (m.signalvnoise.com)

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Fortran, a 70-year-old computer language, lands back on the top 20 (boingboing.net)

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Cutter 2.0 Release (cutter.re)

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Data lineage beyond the crazy diagrams (medium.com)

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EMA denies already finding link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots (www.theguardian.com)

4 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040703 0 comments

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China Is Detaining Christians in Secret Facilities Forcing Them to Renounce (www.dailywire.com)

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SuperPaintman/The-Evolution-of-a-Go-Programmer (github.com)

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0

A simple pitch deck is a successful pitch deck (www.youtube.com)

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Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference (visualstudio.microsoft.com)

3 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040703 0 comments

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General Purpose Vision (prior.allenai.org)

3 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040703 0 comments

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Navigating Silicon Valley as a Female Founder (www.celinehh.com)

3 points first seen 2021040703 last seen 2021040703 0 comments

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A Battle over Race, Class and Power at Smith College (www.nytimes.com)

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0

Ask HN: Best way to avoid link rot? (item?id=26718185)

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Calendar with Workflows and Internal API for Dentists,Teachers,Insurance,Generic (cyberium.info)

3 points first seen 2021040718 last seen 2021040721 0 comments

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Hollywood Actor Bilked 200 Investors in $690M Ponzi Scheme (www.forbes.com)

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Truebill is hiring an IT Engineer (item?id=26710782)

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ContentFly (YC W21) Is Hiring for Roles in Operations, Success and Product (www.ycombinator.com)

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