hackerNews

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Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? (item?id=26721951)

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Screw it, I’ll host it myself (www.markozivanovic.com)

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Et Tu, Signal? (www.stephendiehl.com)

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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak (www.reuters.com)

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The Real Book (99percentinvisible.org)

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Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted (www.sciencemag.org)

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Surprisingly Slow (gregoryszorc.com)

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An Interview with the Man Who Keeps Uploading My Feet to WikiFeet (www.thecut.com)

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Cycling is 10x more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities (theconversation.com)

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All C++20 core language features with examples (oleksandrkvl.github.io)

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FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease (news.berkeley.edu)

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34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work (www.psychnewsdaily.com)

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New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity (innocenceproject.org)

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WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support (www.schneier.com)

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Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site (www.reuters.com)

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How to make a Python package in 2021 (antonz.org)

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BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution (google.github.io)

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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak (www.reuters.com)

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A simple C implementation to stream H.264 to browser using WebRTC (github.com)

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AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx (www.amd.com)

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iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests (github.com)

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Signal to update their server source code after one year (github.com)

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The NoPhone (https://www.thenophone.com)

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Wix and Their Dirty Tricks (ma.tt)

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A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals (whitehotharlots.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what? (item?id=26734079)

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What defines a great company culture? (twitter.com)

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YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers (www.bbc.com)

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What have we lost? [video] (media.ccc.de)

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A woman who took on Google and won (www.bbc.com)

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Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected (gregoryszorc.com)

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Cosmic rays causing 30k network malfunctions in Japan each year (mainichi.jp)

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Show HN: Kaboom.js is a zero-dependency declarative JavaScript game library (kaboomjs.com)

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Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving (www.nature.com)

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A After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again (www.nytimes.com)

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A simple, bloat free cooking site. Submit recipes... (https://opensource.cooking)

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Isp.netscape.com (https://isp.netscape.com)

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GNU lightning: generates assembly language code at run-time (www.gnu.org)

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Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions (www.nature.com)

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TailwindCSS JIT with Arbitrary Values (tailwindcss.com)

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Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences (www.apple.com)

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I Teach Machiavelli Through His Letters (www.exurbe.com)

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Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Complexity, and the Lambda Calculus [pdf] (www.cis.upenn.edu)

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IBM releases COBOL compiler for Linux x86 (www-01.ibm.com)

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lscpu + neofetch = cpufetch (github.com)

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I built a reverse image search for pixel art (github.com)

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Left-wing party opposed to rare earth mining project wins Greenland election (www.france24.com)

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A record label bringing Iranian music to the world (www.huckmag.com)

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GnuCOBOL – a free/libre COBOL compiler (gnucobol.sourceforge.io)

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IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 is Out (blog.jetbrains.com)

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'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature (www.bbc.com)

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The Edges of Our Universe (arxiv.org)

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Privacy activist Max Schrems claims Google Advertising ID on Android is unlawful (www.theregister.com)

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TLA+ Graph Explorer (github.com)

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The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File (www.tabletmag.com)

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UX Challenges based in the real world (uxtools.co)

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The Health Hazards of Plug-In Air Fresheners (www.indoordoctor.com)

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Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer (monadical.com)

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SPAs Are Dead? (leastprivilege.com)

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Writing advice should stop targeting people who hate to write (enkiv2.medium.com)

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Cryptographically verifiable code review system for cargo Rust package manager (github.com)

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Redefining Threat Modeling: Security team goes on vacation (segment.com)

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Metis and Bodybuilders (astralcodexten.substack.com)

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What Is Fuzz Testing? (blog.fuzzbuzz.io)

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Geometrical Thinking Offers a Window into Computation (www.simonsfoundation.org)

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Streamlit's $35M Series B (blog.streamlit.io)

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Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit (techcrunch.com)

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C# 9 Pattern Matching (developers.redhat.com)

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New Wormable Android Malware Spreads by Creating Auto-Replies in WhatsApp (research.checkpoint.com)

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Bitemporal History (martinfowler.com)

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Texas Senate passes bill aiming to counter federal subsidies for wind and solar (www.houstonchronicle.com)

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The bacterial 'homing missiles' that scientists want to harness (phys.org)

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Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public (https://facebookbreach.com)

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Navalny 'losing sensation in legs and hands' (www.bbc.com)

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Shit User Story (twitter.com)

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Running shoe tech: The Emperor’s clothes, and the integrity of running (sportsscientists.com)

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Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers (www.vice.com)

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Google is writing low-level Android code in Rust (arstechnica.com)

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Understanding Media Through Food: 8 Metaphors (pratik.is)

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Polish blogger sued after revealing security issue in UseCrypt messenger (therecord.media)

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Why Hasn't the Mainstream Media Pilloried 60 Mins for Spreading Misinformation? (reason.com)

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Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules (www.sarasoueidan.com)

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Breaking RAR5 and 7Zip Passwords (blog.elcomsoft.com)

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Make Is Crap (www.youtube.com)

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I love my not-smart TV (ericwbailey.design)

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Warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting (www.thenewatlantis.com)

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Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Wasted man years by Jira, per day (twitter.com)

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EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link (apnews.com)

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Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer (item?id=26722428)

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Texas Courts Open Eviction Floodgates: 'We Just Stepped Off a Cliff' (www.npr.org)

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Doing Research at the Library of Congress (2017) (www.loc.gov)

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Google Illegally Tracking Android Users, According to New Complaint (arstechnica.com)

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Apollo Client – Demystifying Cache Normalization (www.apollographql.com)

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What Movie Studios Refuse to Understand About Streaming (www.eff.org)

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Among the Rank and File: Gogol in the Twilight of Empire (www.thenation.com)

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Sea level rise killing trees on Atlantic coast, ghost forests visible from space (news.yahoo.com)

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Twitter Held Discussions for $4B Takeover of Clubhouse (www.bloomberg.com)

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Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution (www.infoworld.com)

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Ask HN: Moving to US (from Argentina) for college. Any advice for a newcomer? (item?id=26728967)

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Couple Defaced $400k Painting in S. Korea Thinking It Was Public Art Project (www.nytimes.com)

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Snorkel AI scores $35M Series B to automate data labeling in machine learning (techcrunch.com)

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Weaponizing the Web (www.nybooks.com)

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Messenger Comparison – Threema, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp (threema.ch)

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UK Covid: Under-30s offered alternative to AstraZeneca jab (www.bbc.com)

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Court’s drug possession ruling upends WA’s criminal justice system (crosscut.com)

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Elk Grove Paying Homeless People to Clean Up After Themselves, and It’s Working (sacramento.cbslocal.com)

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Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful? (item?id=26734392)

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Fast and secure: Ethernet can be a better choice for your office than Wi-Fi (edt.computerworld.com)

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Netflix lost 9% of the market share as competition increases (digesttime.com)

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Edith Wharton on Henry James’s asking for directions (2014) (edithwhartonsociety.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: There's multiple wget Docker images with 5M+ pulls. Why? (hub.docker.com)

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Show HN: Books to Learn Apache Kafka (1900jwatson.medium.com)

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EMA finds possible link for AstraZeneca and rare cases of blood clots, platelets (www.ema.europa.eu)

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Bloomberg Foresees Bitcoin Rallying to $400K This Year (www.coindesk.com)

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Another Day Another Ridiculous NYT OpEd about Section 230 and Free Speech Online (www.techdirt.com)

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What should the next chat app look like? (drewdevault.com)

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57 years ago: System/360 Announcement (www.ibm.com)

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SPGISpeech: 5k hours of transcribed audio for ASR (datasets.kensho.com)

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Help us test payments in Signal (www.signal.org)

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Intel’s Latest Hail Mary Is a $20B Bet on American Manufacturing (www.bloomberg.com)

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SF board halts process to rename Washington, Lincoln and Feinstein schools (www.nbcnews.com)

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Persepolis Graffiti: Foreign Visitors (2015) (iranicaonline.org)

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Uber and Lyft ‘throwing money’ at US drivers to ease shortage (www.ft.com)

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UPS agrees to buy 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (www.cnbc.com)

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Awesome-JIT – A curated list of JIT frameworks, libraries, software, resources (github.com)

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Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4B as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (www.wsj.com)

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Women under 60 at far greater risk of rare clotting after AstraZeneca shot (www.reuters.com)

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Convert data exports from various services to a single SQLite database (github.com)

7 points first seen 2021040809 last seen 2021040812 0 comments

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Ask HN: Are there studies on the most efficient way to learn programming? (item?id=26733262)

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BBC.com Is Down (www.bbc.com)

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How to use GPT-3 recursively to solve general problems (twitter.com)

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Jellyfish-Like Organisms Halt Two South Korean Nuclear Reactors (www.bloomberg.com)

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Twitter won’t let National Archives revive realDonaldTrump (www.politico.com)

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In which there is no such thing as a functional programming language (technomancy.us)

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Computational Applications to Behavioral Science (gsbdbi.github.io)

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Streamlit nabs $35M Series B to expand machine learning platform (techcrunch.com)

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Money Chart – Xkcd Blog (blog.xkcd.com)

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Most kids with serious inflammatory illness had mild Covid-19 (www.latimes.com)

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Beyond Meat opens China factory, its first outside US (agfundernews.com)

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Google Illegally Tracking Android Users, According to New Complaint (yro.slashdot.org)

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Turning 30: New Ideas in Inductive Logic Programming (arxiv.org)

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The National Platform for Studying the Ukrainian Language for English-Speaking (ukr.lingva.ua)

5 points first seen 2021040821 last seen 2021040821 0 comments

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Are disk sector writes atomic? (stackoverflow.com)

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Intellij finally getting HTML preview inside IDE (blog.jetbrains.com)

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Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Surrenders to Face Charges (www.bloomberg.com)

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To Improve Your Sense of Direction, Lose the Technology (2017) (www.nytimes.com)

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Is the Secret to Saving Old Websites Simplifying Digital Preservation? (tedium.co)

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Dispatch This: Using Apollo Client 3 as a State Management Solution (www.apollographql.com)

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Frog skin cells turned themselves into liviContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ng machines (www.sciencenews.org)

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What problems do people solve with strace? (jvns.ca)

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Flow Club (YC S21) Is Hiring (www.workatastartup.com)

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