hackerNews

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std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs (github.com)

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The Ponzi Career (www.drorpoleg.com)

454 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041309 278 comments

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What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? (www.vidarholen.net)

411 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041503 225 comments

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Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public (mattstoller.substack.com)

409 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041221 128 comments

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Technologies I Thought My Son Would Never Use (www.tomshardware.com)

396 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041400 543 comments

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Anxiety Is in Your Body, Not Your Mind (elemental.medium.com)

364 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041303 209 comments

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Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens (www.theguardian.com)

327 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041315 147 comments

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Making Librem 5 Apps (puri.sm)

288 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041300 228 comments

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Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? (thehustle.co)

255 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041300 181 comments

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Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility (www.bbc.com)

238 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041212 297 comments

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French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights (www.reuters.com)

236 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041300 331 comments

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MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning (alan-turing-institute.github.io)

228 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041400 54 comments

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Internet-monitoring – A Docker Stack which Monitors your home network (github.com)

222 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041303 53 comments

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Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5 (lukesempire.com)

219 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041315 116 comments

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When real world mapping meets Tolkien (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk)

219 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041400 68 comments

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Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago (electrek.co)

211 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041306 221 comments

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The Shape of Rome (2013) (www.exurbe.com)

199 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041306 41 comments

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Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter (2018) (allarsblog.com)

185 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041303 116 comments

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Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself (benhoyt.com)

176 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041400 46 comments

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TLS Mastery (mwl.io)

147 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041300 33 comments

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Ask HN: I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do? (item?id=26769638)

142 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041221 119 comments

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Traversing nested data-structures in various languages (github.com)

130 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041321 67 comments

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Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea (asia.nikkei.com)

114 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041218 130 comments

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Does the Universe Have Higher Dimensions? Part 1 (backreaction.blogspot.com)

114 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041312 60 comments

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An environmental disaster was uncovered off California after 70 years (www.cbsnews.com)

113 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041306 28 comments

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800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices (www.medievalists.net)

111 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041318 3 comments

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Go HTTPS Servers with TLS (eli.thegreenplace.net)

107 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041315 27 comments

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Show HN: An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog (github.com)

103 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041218 19 comments

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Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A disassembler (briancallahan.net)

99 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041303 18 comments

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Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin (www.bloomberg.com)

99 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041303 141 comments

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Gradle 7.0 Released (docs.gradle.org)

98 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041300 116 comments

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CloudBeaver – Database Management from Browser (https://cloudbeaver.io)

97 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041300 11 comments

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Bloom filters explained in a single image (exampl.io)

95 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041221 45 comments

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Problems with JPA/Hibernate (www.stemlaur.com)

93 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041303 167 comments

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The Nuclear Lightbulb – A Brief Introduction (beyondnerva.com)

87 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041300 48 comments

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Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keywords and concepts (esoteric.codes)

86 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041300 50 comments

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Microsoft in advanced talks to buy speech-recognition company Nuance (www.cnbc.com)

86 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041300 55 comments

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Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now (vdf.dev)

86 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041312 91 comments

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The Healing Power of Code (www.wired.com)

85 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041315 17 comments

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The Black-Scholes formula, explained (2019) (www.cantorsparadise.com)

84 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041218 62 comments

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Obsolete German Units of Measurement (en.wikipedia.org)

83 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041300 101 comments

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TorBox v.0.4.0 (www.torbox.ch)

80 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041312 29 comments

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First-Class I/O (blog.sunfishcode.online)

79 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041300 14 comments

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Surgeons Perform First Human Tracheal Transplant Surgery (www.mountsinai.org)

76 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041218 15 comments

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Surround Sound in Headphones (www.soundguys.com)

76 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041303 84 comments

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Binary Lambda Calculus (2012) (www.ioccc.org)

67 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041312 12 comments

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SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017) (esoteric.codes)

67 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041315 31 comments

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Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla (blog.mozilla.org)

66 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041212 71 comments

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Spectrum upset about me using the upload they sold me (www.reddit.com)

65 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041218 61 comments

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Memories of Traumatic Events Get Backing from Brain-Imaging Studies (www.scientificamerican.com)

62 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041303 34 comments

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0.1 and 0.2 Returns 0.30000000000000004 (2018) (qntm.org)

57 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041300 139 comments

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The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect (www.filfre.net)

55 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041315 0 comments

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OneWeb, SpaceX satellites dodged a potential collision in orbit (www.theverge.com)

54 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041212 23 comments

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The Net interprets privacy as damage and routes around it (item?id=26771288)

54 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041218 31 comments

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Police Data Accessibility Project (pdap.io)

51 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041206 34 comments

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Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down (www.theregister.com)

50 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041221 56 comments

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Chronology of the Liberation (www.buchenwald.de)

49 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041215 0 comments

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Using brain interfaces to learn about learning (www.axios.com)

46 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041221 8 comments

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Walletmor Payment Implant (walletmor.com)

44 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041300 65 comments

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“I ate too many drugs” [linguist on George Floyd court case] (www.languagejones.com)

44 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041221 47 comments

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ADHD and autism associated with in utero heavy metals and essential minerals (medicalxpress.com)

43 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041303 5 comments

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Data from 500M LinkedIn users has been scrape and posted online for sale (goodayfriends.com)

41 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041303 0 comments

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Dungeon Generation in Unexplored (www.boristhebrave.com)

41 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021041303 2 comments

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EU Parliament Wants Pirated Sports Streams Taken Down Within 30 Minutes (torrentfreak.com)

40 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 32 comments

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Economy is on the cusp of a major boom and economists believe it could last (www.cnbc.com)

39 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041321 28 comments

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Prenatal phthalate exposure linked to altered information processing in infants (news.illinois.edu)

35 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041303 10 comments

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Retool – Fixing product debt without PMs (www.supercalifragilistic.co)

34 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041300 18 comments

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List of Mozilla's positions on different Web specifications (mozilla.github.io)

31 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041215 0 comments

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No success like failure – a natural history of the film maudit (www.bfi.org.uk)

31 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041300 0 comments

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The Meme Machine (1999) (www.susanblackmore.uk)

30 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041215 17 comments

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Long Live Sandboxing (noncombatant.org)

28 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041309 12 comments

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She sued for pregnancy discrimination. Now she’s battling Google's lawyers (www.theguardian.com)

27 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041209 4 comments

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Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst (2000) (www.jstor.org)

27 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041321 4 comments

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NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google's rules (www.bbc.co.uk)

27 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041221 30 comments

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Inhaled budesonide in the treatment of early Covid-19 (www.thelancet.com)

25 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041212 4 comments

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Why NFS servers generally have a 'reply cache' (utcc.utoronto.ca)

25 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041300 13 comments

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Facing Ka’ena Point: On Turning Eighty (www.newyorker.com)

24 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041215 6 comments

63

Show HN: Muil – Build PDF and email templates using React (www.muil.io)

24 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041218 5 comments

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Artists in the Stone Age Were High at Work, New Study Suggests (designtaxi.com)

19 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041315 13 comments

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Ask HN: Who's winning 2030's Turing Award ? (item?id=26773652)

19 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041215 12 comments

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How PE firms buy & defend hospital monopoly profits (www.wsj.com)

18 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041209 0 comments

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IETF CFRG: please use real names (mailarchive.ietf.org)

18 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041221 5 comments

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Brain disorders affect 1 in 3 Covid survivors, large UK study shows (www.ft.com)

18 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041209 0 comments

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Google is shutting down its mobile Shopping app (www.theverge.com)

16 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041215 10 comments

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Winsome Heartwood by the Spinel (the-spinel.itch.io)

15 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041303 0 comments

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Ask HN: I have no “business sense” what to do about it? (item?id=26772316)

14 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041212 12 comments

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Could Time-Blocking Replace Your To-Do List? (2017) (www.fastcompany.com)

14 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041300 5 comments

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Ask HN: About to Be Acquired by MSFT (item?id=26775175)

13 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041221 10 comments

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The lack of a price tag seems almost criminal (inessential.com)

11 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041206 0 comments

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Principal–Agent Problem (en.wikipedia.org)

10 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041209 0 comments

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Deceptive Checkboxes Should Not Open Our Checkbooks (www.eff.org)

10 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041212 0 comments

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The Wrong Number (1997) (www.dialajoke.us)

9 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041221 2 comments

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Coronavirus vaccine technology is paving the way for a new approach to flu shots (www.washingtonpost.com)

9 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041218 0 comments

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Unionizing Amazon warehouses was never going to be easy (www.theverge.com)

8 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041209 3 comments

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Who wins 6 GHz band: Wi-Fi or 5G NR-U (www.fiercewireless.com)

7 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 0 comments

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Ask HN: VR Sickness (item?id=26771321)

7 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 12 comments

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Problem Details for HTTP APIs (tools.ietf.org)

7 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041215 0 comments

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Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (lifehacker.com)

7 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041218 3 comments

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Beach Photos Confuse People About How Covid-19 Spreads (www.theatlantic.com)

6 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041203 0 comments

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AMA with a former credit card fraudster and identity theft (www.reddit.com)

6 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 0 comments

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The Sacred “Back” Button (www.tbray.org)

6 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041215 3 comments

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Show HN: React Gradient Text (Rgt) (rgt.borja.ai)

5 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041200 0 comments

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Inside the Dark, Biohacked, Heart of Silicon Valley (www.vanityfair.com)

5 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041203 0 comments

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There's Another Facebook Phone Number Database Online (www.vice.com)

5 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 0 comments

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4k-Year-Old Student ‘Writing Board’ from Ancient Egypt (www.openculture.com)

5 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041215 0 comments

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Tinker with userscripts, if you are new to JavaScript (blog.tarekjellali.com)

5 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041218 0 comments

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How Google SRE and Developers Work Together (www.youtube.com)

5 points first seen 2021041221 last seen 2021041300 0 comments

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Of Astronauts and Algae: NASA and the Dream of Multispecies Spaceflight (2017) (read.dukeupress.edu)

4 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2022073006 0 comments

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Building Ikigai, My Award-Winning Wooden PC Mod (www.tomshardware.com)

4 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041209 0 comments

0

Show HN: Football/Running Tracking, Sprint Detection (https://mylifefootball.com)

4 points first seen 2021041215 last seen 2021041215 2 comments

0

Openness Is a Privilege (openeveryone.substack.com)

4 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041218 0 comments

0

Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

4 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041218 4 comments

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Personal info for 1.3M Clubhouse users reportedly leaked online (www.theverge.com)

3 points first seen 2021041203 last seen 2021041203 0 comments

0

Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign (www.thenation.com)

3 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 0 comments

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Pickle (YC W21) Is Hiring (www.workatastartup.com)

0 points first seen 2021041200 last seen 2021041203 0 comments

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Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring Designers and Engineers to Make Better Devtools (Replit.com)

0 points first seen 2021041206 last seen 2021041206 N/A comments

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Seer (YC W21) Is Hiring a Front End Software Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2021041209 last seen 2021041209 N/A comments

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Greywing (YC W21) Is Hiring to builContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1d a new interface for shipping (www.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2021041212 last seen 2021052915 0 comments

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Bonsai (YC W16) Hiring a Head of Product (angel.co)

0 points first seen 2021041218 last seen 2021041221 0 comments