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“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today” (twitter.com)

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Piano teacher gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (www.youtube.com)

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'It's your device, you should be able to repair it' (www.bbc.com)

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Labor shortage or terrible jobs? (annehelen.substack.com)

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Show HN: Second-Chance Pool (news.ycombinator.com)

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New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses (www.sciencedaily.com)

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So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain (twitter.com)

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Audacity Aquired by Muse Group (www.scoringnotes.com)

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SSD Makers Start Warning That Mining Products Like Chia Coin Will Void Warranty (www.guru3d.com)

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YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute (www.axios.com)

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Apple’s Notarizing (www.cdfinder.de)

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Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs (tldp.org)

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Simplifier (simplifier.neocities.org)

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India’s second wave of covid-19 feels nothing like its first (www.economist.com)

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Space Cloud: Open-Source Firebase and Heroku on Kubernetes (github.com)

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Launch HN: Porter (YC S20) – Open-source Heroku in your own cloud (item?id=26993421)

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Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair (www.youtube.com)

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Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average (awealthofcommonsense.com)

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Taiwan bans recruitment for jobs in China to combat brain drain (asia.nikkei.com)

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P&G Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder (www.cdc.gov)

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Beware HN: The rise of weaponized "abuse" reports (item?id=26995211)

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I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously.[video] (www.youtube.com)

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Elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today (blog.elementary.io)

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Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit (www.businessinsider.com)

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Factories produced tired workers. A new frontier in fatigue studies followed (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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The ransomware surge (www.bbc.com)

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Show HN: A RISC-V core in Racket (guillaume.baierouge.fr)

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Making Generative Art with Rust (blog.abor.dev)

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John Tiller Has Died (johntillersoftware.com)

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345,000 legal documents from the Philippines government have been exposed online (restofworld.org)

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FB JavaScript SDK down (developers.facebook.com)

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Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69 (oxide.computer)

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Ask HN: How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor? (item?id=26995874)

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Washington approves capital gains tax for the first time in state history (www.geekwire.com)

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Apple reveals more about AirTag stalking protections (www.fastcompany.com)

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October CMS as you know it is Dead (wintercms.com)

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AWS inter-region latency chart (www.cloudping.co)

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Redbean/0.4 (redbean.justine.lol)

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Ask HN: What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux? (item?id=26997498)

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Diffie-Hellman for the layman (borisreitman.medium.com)

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Perfectly Ordinary Stones, Carried for 1,300 Years (2014) (ishimochi.com)

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Two Years of Squash Merge (2019) (blog.dnsimple.com)

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Spacewar 1 and the Beginnings of Video Game Aesthetics (www.masswerk.at)

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Labor Shortage or Terrible Jobs? (kottke.org)

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Murex shell now supports mixing SQL and shell pipelines (murex.rocks)

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Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013) (blog.mycology.cornell.edu)

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Soaring lumber prices add $36,000 to the cost of a new home (www.cnbc.com)

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Plain of Jars, one of the most mysterious archaeological sites, reveals its age (www.livescience.com)

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Let's get Right to Repair passed (gofund.me)

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We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Western thought (perell.com)

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'Minting' electronic cash (1999) (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use? (item?id=26990815)

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Sir Douglas Nicholls (en.wikipedia.org)

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Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display (wp.josh.com)

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An update to our YouTube TV members on Roku (blog.youtube)

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Apple reveals more about AirTag stalking protections as domestic abuse concerns (9to5mac.com)

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SpaceX has a green light from the FAA to fly Starship on Friday (arstechnica.com)

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Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly [pdf] (www.unibw.de)

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AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas (www.theregister.com)

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The Great Roadside Motel Comeback (www.texasmonthly.com)

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San Francisco’s tech fiefdom is dying (www.brookfieldbrief.com)

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Fasil Ghebbi – The Remains of King Fasilides’ Fortress-City Gondar, Ethiopia (zamaniproject.org)

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The Pains of Path Parsing (www.fpcomplete.com)

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Disney gets special “theme park” exception to Florida’s anti-tech bill (arstechnica.com)

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True, False, and Random (2015) (nautil.us)

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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500k (www.theverge.com)

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LinkedIn removed a post criticising Indian Government's COVID handling (www.linkedin.com)

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NASA suspends SpaceX’s $2.9B moon lander contract after rivals protest (www.theverge.com)

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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously (www.newyorker.com)

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Intel seeks $10 bln in subsidies for European chip plant (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: The Living Box – DIY indoor farming (thelivingbx.medium.com)

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Google-led paper pushes back against claims of AI inefficiency (venturebeat.com)

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Pirates Who Illegally Streamed Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren Target of $100m Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)

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Tor is killing off all v2 domains on October 15th, 2021 (blog.torproject.org)

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Is There a Case for Legalizing Heroin? (www.newyorker.com)

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What Is Constructor Theory? (constructortheory.org)

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Former Netflix CTO convicted for taking bribes (www.engadget.com)

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Virginia not moving to eliminate advanced math classes (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Make an Interactive Sculpture with Twilio Autopilot and Airtable (www.twilio.com)

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World's largest beaver dam shows up on satellite images (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How to Write an Equality Method in Java (2009) (www.artima.com)

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Design Practices for Human Scale Online Games (2018) (www.projecthorseshoe.com)

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Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding (techcrunch.com)

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Over a dozen Basecamp employees have resigned (twitter.com)

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Myths and Realities of Ping-Pong Diplomacy (www.historytoday.com)

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More Americans Are Leaving Cities, but Don’t Call It an Urban Exodus (www.bloomberg.com)

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Darktrace Jumps 40% on IPO (www.sharesmagazine.co.uk)

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Telephony Without Phone Numbers (timur.mobi)

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Study shows printed books are still preferred to e-books (www.weforum.org)

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Researchers Demo Potential for Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Vulnerability Disclosure (www.darpa.mil)

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Tobacco – Shamans and Smokers (www.europeana.eu)

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How Dire America's Pokémon Card Crisis Is (www.vice.com)

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SerenityOS update (April 2021) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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After being rejected by YC, we bootstrapped Veed.io to $4M ARR in (item?id=26994572)

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Ask HN: What was your earliest “programming” memory? (item?id=26998767)

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The Journal of Controversial Ideas Is Here (quillette.com)

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Show HN: Private, Minimal Web Analytics (github.com)

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Show HN: I wrote a website in 6502 assembly (www.mdw.la)

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Gran Turismo Is Now an Official Olympic Sport (www.thedrive.com)

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More US agencies potentially hacked, this time with Pulse Secure exploits (arstechnica.com)

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How I Use My Apple Watch as an Autism Aid (www.nytimes.com)

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The chilling effect versus attempts to fix things (rachelbythebay.com)

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Researchers are closing in on long Covid (www.economist.com)

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How the N-Word Became Unsayable (www.nytimes.com)

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This week in KDE: Support for GPU hot-plug and FreeSync, and so much more (pointieststick.com)

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Newest Respects Your Freedom certified device is a 802.11n router (www.fsf.org)

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ISP lobbyists to sue NY for requiring $15/m internet to low-income households (www.documentcloud.org)

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Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate (www.theatlantic.com)

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Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says (phys.org)

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Forbidden Archaeology: Why Darwin's Theory of Evolution Could Be Wrong (www.youtube.com)

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Andreessen Horowitz plans $1bn cryptocurrency VC fund (www.ft.com)

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Making Generative Art with Rust (blog.abor.dev)

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Disney Got a Themepark Carveout from Florida's Social Media Moderation Bill (www.techdirt.com)

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Compose.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring (www.workatastartup.com)

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