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Internal Combustion Engine (ciechanow.ski)

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Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide During the Covid Pandemic (www.scientificamerican.com)

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European Union says Apple’s App Store breaches competition rules (www.cnbc.com)

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An Update on the UMN Affair (lwn.net)

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U.S. Labor Secretary says most gig workers should be classified as employees (www.reuters.com)

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Researchers Uncover Stealthy Linux Malware That Went Undetected for 3 Years (blog.netlab.360.com)

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QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released (www.qemu.org)

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Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken (www.intuitibits.com)

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CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified (blog.vnaik.com)

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Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir (fly.io)

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Beginner’s Guide to Mechanical Keyboards (coolgadget.substack.com)

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The Fourier transform is a neural network (sidsite.com)

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We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure (blog.replit.com)

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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (catern.com)

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I booked my cheapest one-month trip ever (benbernardblog.com)

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A brief history of Rust at Facebook (engineering.fb.com)

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Lambda School Lays Off 32% (lambdaschool.com)

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The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (thetech.com)

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Show your costs to boost sales (tips.ariyh.com)

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Category theory is a universal modeling language (math.mit.edu)

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Opera Adds Native Support for Blockchain Domain Names (blogs.opera.com)

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QNAP Ships NAS Backup Software with Hidden Credentials (forum.qnap.com)

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Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves (www.eater.com)

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It's Arrived Now Behold the Intelligent Timing Lock (twitter.com)

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Applications from the Future (stopa.io)

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What's going on here, with this human? (grahamduncan.blog)

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Health of the KDE Community (carlschwan.eu)

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Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation (developers.facebook.com)

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Shipping Containers Are Falling Overboard at a Rapid Rate (www.supplychainbrain.com)

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Introduction to Pluto.jl (www.juliafordatascience.com)

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Excess Deaths in 2020 (kieranhealy.org)

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U.S. government probes VPN hack within federal agencies, races to find clues (www.reuters.com)

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How to write cold emails to investors – lessons from 30 VCs (www.flowrite.com)

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Safari 14.1 is completely unusable (discussions.apple.com)

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Nano-5.7 (lists.gnu.org)

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Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code (gitlab.com)

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FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars (www.fda.gov)

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Want to Learn Programming and Microcontrollers? (www.eejournal.com)

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Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Anti-Discrimination Policy (themarkup.org)

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Hedonometer: Average Happiness of Twitter over Time (hedonometer.org)

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Avoiding Leetcode Anxiety (leetcodetherapy.com)

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Cognicull: Knowledge base for mathematics, natural science and engineering (cognicull.com)

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‘Frenssh’ as it was ‘spak’ in medieval England (blogs.bl.uk)

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Utsuro-Bune (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs and Web apps (github.com)

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EU court rules software transfer is a sale (2012) (bdkadvokati.com)

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Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial (www.reuters.com)

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Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/Month (mtlynch.io)

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Battery parts can be recycled without crushing or melting (www.aalto.fi)

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Habitual coffee drinkers have a distinct pattern of brain functionalconnectivity (www.nature.com)

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Tape Recovery Simulator 96K (www.bluesnews.com)

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Amazon Q1 2021 Quarterly Results [pdf] (ir.aboutamazon.com)

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Horses and Sparrows: The myth of 'trickle down' economics (www.newmainetimes.org)

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Show HN: Simple way to access various statistics in Git repository (github.com)

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How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Scientists re-evaluating relative brain size and mammalian intelligence (phys.org)

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The World the Suez Canal Made (publicseminar.org)

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The Slackware Way (2012) (docs.slackware.com)

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ReleaseHub Environments as a Service Gets 2.7M Seed from Sequoia (releasehub.com)

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Building a Game Boy Emulator with Rust (read.cv)

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Planter: Auto-generate Plant UML diagrams from Postgres tables (github.com)

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Ask HN: How to convince your manager to let you continue to WFH. (item?id=26983085)

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Case Study: Why you should play Factorio (www.deprocrastination.co)

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US investigating attacks with hallmarks of ‘Havana syndrome’ near White House (www.cnbc.com)

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On Creative Coding (2018) (dry.ly)

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Is Explainability the New Uncertainty? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

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Ask HN: Learning Distributed Systems as a Junior Engineer (item?id=26989035)

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The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath (1536) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Michael Collins on Space Exploration (2019) (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks (www.insurancejournal.com)

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British regulator cites 41 more blood clot reports following AstraZeneca shots (www.reuters.com)

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Antarctic Study Shows How Much Space Dust Hits Earth Every Year (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Drinkable water extracted with solar-powered desalination system (eandt.theiet.org)

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Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration (dark energy might not exist) (www.aanda.org)

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Ben Barbersmith: Cryptocurrency is bad. For the planet, for consumers (twitter.com)

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How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat (publicdomainreview.org)

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UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal (www.bbc.com)

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Parable of the Banana (adamapples.blogspot.com)

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Simone Weil for Americans (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Feds arrest founder of Bitcoin ‘mixer’ they say laundered $335M (www.theverge.com)

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Museum specimens reveal increasing microplastics in freshwater fish (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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White House investigating ‘unexplained health incidents’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Texas Enabled the Worst Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Recent U.S. History (www.propublica.org)

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The European System of Monopoly (thecounterbalance.substack.com)

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Is the F-35 officially a failure? (arstechnica.com)

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The Most Attractive Accent in the World (www.bbc.com)

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AMD Van Gogh Ultra-Low Power Processors (wccftech.com)

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At Satoshi’s Tea Garden (www.lrb.co.uk)

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Fit for a Queen (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Robotic harvester plucks an Apple every 7 seconds (www.freshplaza.com)

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Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Patreon: Some Tough News to Share (www.youtube.com)

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Raising the Capital Gains Tax Would Be Un-American (www.bloomberg.com)

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What3Words: App used by emergency services under scrutiny (www.bbc.com)

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Verizon tries to sell Yahoo and AOL after spending $9B on fallen giants (arstechnica.com)

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Async Python Web Frameworks Comparison (github.com)

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NASA is now Planning a Mission to go 1k AU From the Sun (www.universetoday.com)

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Jon Pretty responds to allegations of sexual harrassment (twitter.com)

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What Makes Music Universal (nautil.us)

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Oculus will sell a Quest 2 headset that doesn't need Facebook for an extra $500 (www.pcgamer.com)

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Tesla admits it may never achieve full-self-driving cars (www.fastcompany.com)

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US reveals suspected energy weapon attacks near White House in 2020 (americanmilitarynews.com)

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China's Baidu to launch paid driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing (www.reuters.com)

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Craig Federighi Explains iOS 14.5's Privacy Feature (www.youtube.com)

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My Startup Failed Six Years Ago. I’ve Been Hiding from My Shame Ever Since (entrepreneurshandbook.co)

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Show HN: Realness online – I made a social network for intimate friend groups (github.com)

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Microsoft follows Epic and cuts Xbox PC revenue share to 12 percent (www.engadget.com)

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Building a machine learning model to predict the NBA MVP (perthirtysix.com)

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Ask HN: How many projects do you work on at a time? (item?id=26981261)

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Stravinsky the Shapeshifter (www.newstatesman.com)

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Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion (www.theatlantic.com)

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IBM is acquiring Turbonomic for up to $2B (techcrunch.com)

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Mask study was “misleading” and misquotes citations, says Elsevier (retractionwatch.com)

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The Disastrous J&J Pause (marginalrevolution.com)

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How To Start New Habits That Actually Stick (jamesclear.com)

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The Open Source De-Googled Android Version (itsfoss.com)

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FCC reveals sign-up date and website for $50-per-month broadband subsidies (arstechnica.com)

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Declassified Satellite Images Show Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever (earther.gizmodo.com)

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Asteroid Impact Simulation Is Currently Underway and Its Terrifying (gizmodo.com)

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Largest firefighting plane grounded as West braces for destructive wildfires (lite.cnn.com)

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Ingenuity helicopter failed to lift off from Martian surface for its 4th flight (www.businessinsider.com)

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Germany must tighten climate law to protect young people's future, cContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ourt rules (www.reuters.com)

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GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Senior Software Engineers Remotely (jobs.lever.co)

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Legalist (YC S16) is hiring a senior engineer (www.legalist.com)

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AtoB (YC S20) – Stripe for Transportation – hiring early engineers and operators (atob.com)

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Djamo (YC W21) is hiring an remote Engineering Manager (Remote, UTC ± 3h) (www.ycombinator.com)

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