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Bob Rewinder: Hacking Dishwasher Detergent DRM for 98.7% Cost Saving
(github.com)
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Torvalds: Shared libraries are not a good thing in general
(lore.kernel.org)
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Show HN: List of apps people pay for but have low rating
(ideasfilter.com)
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Using libgccjit to make Emacs 2.3x to 42x faster [pdf]
(arxiv.org)
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The compiler will optimize that away
(blog.royalsloth.eu)
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Will Linux Phones stay around this time?
(linmob.net)
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Scaling Monorepo Maintenance at GitHub
(github.blog)
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GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down
(github.com)
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Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]
(www.youtube.com)
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The Story Of One Whale Who Tried to Mimic Human Speech (2014)
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for 3rd party sellers products
(www.theverge.com)
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Google I|O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions
(commonsware.com)
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Havana syndrome: NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s
(www.theguardian.com)
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Mars Ingenuity helicopter mission extended by NASA
(www.bbc.com)
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Fediverse.Party – Explore Federated Networks
(fediverse.party)
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Windows Terminal Quake Mode
(github.com)
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Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminal
(github.com)
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Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)
(octetz.com)
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What is Chia cryptocurrency – and why is it bad news for hard drives?
(www.tomsguide.com)
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Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
(justinjaffray.com)
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Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)
(pmarchive.com)
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Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider
(www.reddit.com)
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The Ball and Supply Chain
(puri.sm)
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Why software engineers don't write documentation – it's bloody hard
(kislayverma.com)
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The Tragic Story of the Creator of Oswald and Pacifico Fonts (2016)
(chrisgliddon.com)
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Evolution of Random Number Generators
(www.johndcook.com)
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Google’s Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls
(www.nytimes.com)
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Your Car Is About To Be a Software Platform, Subscriptions and All
(www.bloomberg.com)
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EmuTOS: A Free OS for computers based on M68K processors including the Atari ST
(emutos.sourceforge.io)
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Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive performance (2018)
(www.sciencedirect.com)
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PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python [video]
(fosdem.org)
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The Psychology of Design
(growth.design)
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Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader
(github.com)
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Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal
(www.reuters.com)
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Inside The MTA’s Money Room
(www.curbed.com)
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Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets (2016)
(www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com)
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Elevator Sabbath service mode (SHO)
(elevation.fandom.com)
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Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016)
(scruss.com)
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Emacs Lisp book revived: Marcin Borkowski
(mbork.pl)
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Ask HN: How Long Is Your CI Process?
(item?id=27006465)
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She built a toy empire while hiding a lifetime of existential depression
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Michigan asphalt company paves first US public roads containing recycled plastic
(www.secondwavemedia.com)
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The Pedal Movie
(reverb.com)
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Apple runs App Store with 78% profit margin, according to court testimony
(9to5mac.com)
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FVWM and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop
(www.unitedbsd.com)
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Steve Finberg, W1GSL, SK
(wma.arrl.org)
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The Humble img Element and Core Web Vitals
(www.smashingmagazine.com)
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I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches [pdf]
(www.cs.virginia.edu)
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We applied for a job with a ransomware gang
(cybernews.com)
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Film Restoration Today: The Elusive Perfect Viewing Experience
(mubi.com)
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Resetting the App Store
(www.ben-evans.com)
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A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines
(robotics.sciencemag.org)
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Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
(item?id=26991518)
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Fines up to $66k or five years prison for Australians returning home from India
(www.theguardian.com)
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The 11th Reason to Delete Your Social Media Account: The Algorithm Will Find You
(simondedeo.com)
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My Famicase Exhibition 2021
(famicase.com)
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Types of Robotics Papers
(twitter.com)
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VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon
(blogs.vmware.com)
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A Policy of Activism in the Workplace Is Anti-Fellowship
(antivalue.blogspot.com)
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Indian scientists flag virus mutations that could ‘evade immune response’
(www.reuters.com)
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The Army's New Night-Vision Goggles Look Like Technology Stolen from Aliens
(gizmodo.com)
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Show HN: Segmentel – Let AI segment videos for you
(http://www.segmentel.com)
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Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)
(publicdomainreview.org)
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Why is India having a Covid-19 surge?
(www.bmj.com)
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The Enemy as Sociologist
(www.cabinetmagazine.org)
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Proficad – Electrical Schematics CAD
(www.proficad.com)
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Starship's Belly Flop Maneuver
(everydayastronaut.com)
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It's set to be a hot, violent summer
(www.axios.com)
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Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
(item?id=27004728)
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Effect of the Last Week on Ruby on Rails
(discuss.rubyonrails.org)
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Do we have a moral obligation to live for as long as possible?
(theconversation.com)
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Silicon carbide radio circuits can take the volcanic heat of Venus
(spectrum.ieee.org)
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The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and Twilio
(www.nfx.com)
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The Escalation of Commitment to a Course of Action (1981) [pdf]
(www.gwern.net)
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Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
(www.tampabay.com)
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Humble Bundle sues Steam over alleged monopoly practices
(www.theverge.com)
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Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house
(www.theguardian.com)
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Grammar-Nerd Heaven
(www.newyorker.com)
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Ask HN: Why Download a Downloader to Download an app?
(item?id=27005560)
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France mulls permanent surveillance of terrorist websites
(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Jordan Peterson: the man they couldn't cancel
(www.wsj.com)
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Police Kill Too Many People–White and Black (2016)
(time.com)
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Ask HN: Is Bill Gates' opposition to waiving patents on Covid vaccines monetary?
(item?id=27009454)
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A hoverboard burst into flames. It could change the way Amazon does business
(www.msn.com)
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psDooM – DooM for Sys Admins (2000)
(psdoom.sourceforge.net)
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Box It, Bag It, Wrap It: Medieval Books on the Go (2015)
(medievalbooks.nl)
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Prop B passes in Austin bringing back homeless camping ban
(www.statesman.com)
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What quote permanently changed the way you look at things?
(www.reddit.com)
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Cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag
(qz.com)
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I see dead uOps: Leaking secrets via uOp caches [pdf]
(www.cs.virginia.edu)
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Glaciers are melting much faster than expected, study finds
(www.cnn.com)
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“They know this is my job right?” (chess)
(twitter.com)
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Epic expert estimates Apple's App Store profit to be nearly 80%
(appleinsider.com)
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A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
(www.technologyreview.com)
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A 330-ton fatberg is clogging an English city sewer, and it won't move for weeks
(www.cnn.com)
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xkcd inspired: Types of Scientific Papers
(twitter.com)
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Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization
(www.cnbc.com)
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The mechanism that likely generates white dwarf magnetic fields
(phys.org)
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Automating Society 2020
(automatingsociety.algorithmwatch.org)
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Gas-Loving Texans Pile into Home Solar, Batteries After Freeze
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Making a Lego Domino Machine
(www.youtube.com)
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“I’ve never been involved in anything as secret as this”
(www.politico.com)
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Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy?
(tecContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1hcrunch.com)
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Puzzl (YC S19) Is Hiring for Technical Fintech Roles
(www.notion.so)
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Sirum (YC W15) is hiring: join a fast-growing, mission-driven healthcare team
(www.sirum.org)
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Avo (YC W19) Is Hiring an Account Executive
(app.beapplied.com)
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