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Best practices for writing SQL queries (www.metabase.com)

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Setting Up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet (www.jeffgeerling.com)

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Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas (greaterdanorequalto.com)

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Brave disables Chromium FLoC features (github.com)

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Photopea, the free alternative to Photoshop, generates $250k/year from ads (www.reddit.com)

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Ink 1.0 – open-source scripting language for interactive narrative (www.inklestudios.com)

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I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it (jerseyfonseca.com)

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Google does not want you to tell your players about your donation page (agateau.com)

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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme (suricrasia.online)

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An industry based on missed calls helped bring India online (restofworld.org)

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Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free (cybernews.com)

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Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses (benjiweber.co.uk)

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Using PyTorch and NumPy? You're making a mistake (tanelp.github.io)

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Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification (twitter.com)

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Old Book Illustrations (www.oldbookillustrations.com)

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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor (academic.oup.com)

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Google used past bid data to boost win rate in advertising auctions (www.wsj.com)

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Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in Source games for 2 years (twitter.com)

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M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box (kristiandupont.medium.com)

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Towards the Science of Essential Decentralised Infrastructures (dl.acm.org)

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Timeline of Mathematics (mathigon.org)

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Atlantic Dawn: The Ship from Hell (britishseafishing.co.uk)

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End of Support for Firefox on Amazon Devices (support.mozilla.org)

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Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “contact import” feature (www.wired.com)

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A reading list for new engineering managers (jacobian.org)

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One day, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them (www.businessinsider.com)

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“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading (a16z.com)

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Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension (github.com)

151 points first seen 2021041118 last seen 2021041221 27 comments

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Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt (egyptianstreets.com)

149 points first seen 2021041118 last seen 2021041300 31 comments

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Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3 (emasquil.github.io)

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Et Tu, Procter and Gamble? (daringfireball.net)

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NASA space copter ready for first Mars flight (phys.org)

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Pihole-Antitelemetry (github.com)

137 points first seen 2021041112 last seen 2021041206 73 comments

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Against Alcohol (fergus-mccullough.com)

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Watertight vector maps from raster images (mzucker.github.io)

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Are you a lazy programmer too? (www.lazyprogrammer.it)

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The Gaslighting of Science (zeynep.substack.com)

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Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate as Wall Street bonuses (www.businessinsider.in)

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Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine (www.zdnet.com)

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The TEX tuneup of 2021 [pdf] (tug.org)

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Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Squirrelbyte – a SQLite-based JSON document server (squirrelbyte.com)

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Things I was asked to do while job hunting (www.kylenazario.com)

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I won’t review or write for Elsevier and other commercial scientific journals (science.thewire.in)

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South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: Remove background from image using machine learning (https://removebackground.app)

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Dvtm: A dynamic tiling window manager for the terminal (github.com)

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Ahoyo – Build your personal brand or business online for free (https://ahoyo.to)

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PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI (github.com)

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Limiting Work in Progress (2020) (truemped.github.io)

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Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency (qz.com)

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What happens after a bank closes all of your credit cards? (chadscira.com)

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Why Maya Angelou Partnered with Hallmark (www.neh.gov)

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Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed to No Earlier Than April 14 (mars.nasa.gov)

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Wonkey Game Programming Language (v2021.04) (github.com)

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In Defense of Signal (yorple.medium.com)

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Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free (cybernews.com)

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Multiple domains and languages on the same Next.js site (github.com)

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Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code on Android (noyb.eu)

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Apple’s Quiet War on Independent Repairmen (www.theamericanconservative.com)

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Systemd Inhibitor Locks Deep Dive (trstringer.com)

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Exercise elicits superior metabolic effects in the afternoon compared to morning [pdf] (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

48 points first seen 2021041115 last seen 2021041200 33 comments

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Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you (www.bbc.com)

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My dream of the great unbundling (www.wired.com)

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No password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: What's your absolute favorite tech stack, after having tried others? (item?id=26762674)

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Ask HN: What to use instead of Bash / Sh for Scripting (item?id=26761195)

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Google is exploring a health record tool for patients (www.statnews.com)

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What's Cooking on Sourcehut? (sourcehut.org)

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The Myth of the 'Waterfall' SDLC (bawiki.com)

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Simhashing (Hopefully) Made Simple (2012) (ferd.ca)

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Mastering Ownership in Rust (blog.logrocket.com)

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Turkish police get their own attack helicopters (www.thedrive.com)

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Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs (www.technologyreview.com)

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Show HN: UML model and code examples of GoF patterns in Crystal (github.com)

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Listening and building trust: starting as I mean to go on (www.gov.uk)

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BiDirectional WebDriver Protocol (w3c.github.io)

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Lost 72 hours worth of research data to forced update (old.reddit.com)

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Active Learning with Carl E. Wieman (2019) (www.lindau-nobel.org)

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Hasbro’s new $700 Optimus Prime toy can finally transform all on its own (www.theverge.com)

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Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon (lists.gnu.org)

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Do you need a 12MP photo of a goat? (bigballi.com)

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PSD is not my favourite file format (b3n.org)

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Show HN: CardanoCubes – Pokemon Red on the Cardano Blockchain (https://cardanocubes.com)

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Busy Doing Nothing (100r.co)

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Intel Videos Explain the Basics of Modern CPU Architectures Sans Marketing Fluff (www.tomshardware.com)

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Show HN: The GraphQL API for WordPress is transpiled from PHP 8.0 to 7.1 (graphql-api.com)

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LibreDNS – DoT, DoH, Adblock (libredns.gr)

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Could index funds be “worse than marxism”? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Why You Should Own A Sewing Machine (2016) (hackaday.com)

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The Mystery of Breakthrough Covid-19 Infections (www.newyorker.com)

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The Plasticity of Music (streamingmachinery.com)

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People tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away (www.theregister.com)

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A Hundred Companies Account for More Than Half of the "Blue Economy" (maritime-executive.com)

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What science fiction can do (mitpress.mit.edu)

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South Korea's dangerous ghost doctors are putting patients' lives at risk (edition.cnn.com)

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FOSSi Fever 2020 (riscv.org)

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Minimum wage would be 44 $/h had it grown at the same rate as Wall St. bonuses (www.businessinsider.com)

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Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they're changing trucking (lite.cnn.com)

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The Last Trial of the Codfather (2017) (www.hakaimagazine.com)

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Words failed me in Finnish, so I came out in English (www.msn.com)

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Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms? (shkspr.mobi)

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The Housing Affordability Crisis Migration (wolfstreet.com)

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39 Percent of Online Reviews Are Unreliable (www.bestseocompanies.com)

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Ishango Bone (en.wikipedia.org)

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Nearly 40% of U.S. Marines have declined Covid-19 vaccine (www.cnn.com)

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Yarn v1 to be added to Node.js core (github.com)

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Police allegedly cracks crypto app used by Colombia’s cartels in Belgium (www.theguardian.com)

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Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype Than Solution? (e360.yale.edu)

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VirtOcean – Sea and ocean sounds noise generator (virtocean.com)

8 points first seen 2021041115 last seen 2021041200 0 comments

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Will the last teen to get an Android phone please turn out the lights? (www.zdnet.com)

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How a Basketball Statistic Changed How I See the World (danfrank.ca)

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More evidence that Facebook ad targeting illegally discriminates (theintercept.com)

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Key-CRDT Stores [pdf] (run.unl.pt)

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Ask HN: Who are your favourite indie hackers? (item?id=26763260)

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Why Do We Need Proactive Archiving? Yahoo Answers (datahorde.org)

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India protests US Navy ship’s transit through its waters without consent (www.scmp.com)

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VeChain Introduction (docs.vechain.org)

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The music streaming debate: what artists, songwriters and industry insiders say (www.theguardian.com)

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