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Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class (twitter.com)
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The Unix Magic Poster (jpmens.net)
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Practical SQL for Data Analysis (hakibenita.com)
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World's biggest jeweller, Pandora, to drop mined diamonds (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Show HN: I reverse engineered the Bose iOS app and rebuilt it for Mac (https://boze.app)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021) (item?id=27025922)
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First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States (www.nature.com)
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Verizon Selling AOL and Yahoo (www.nytimes.com)
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Tiny Wins (joelcalifa.com)
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ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts (www.shellcheck.net)
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Volta (volta.sh)
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My Favorite One Liners (muhammadraza.me)
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.org Doesn't Mean Credible (dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org)
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Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008) (www.reuters.com)
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Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go (mattbutterfield.com)
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A Lock Picking Game Changer (www.youtube.com)
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Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics · Simple Analytics (blog.simpleanalytics.com)
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Show HN: I built grafar, a cool visualization library (thoughtspile.github.io)
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So you want to build a carbon capture company (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
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The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations (ggcarvalho.dev)
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What nobody says about startup moms (www.femfosec.com)
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We Mailed 100 Letters to Test the Postal Service. We Did Not Get Speedy Delivery (www.wgbh.org)
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Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead (aria.dog)
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Programming in Z3 by learning to think like a compiler (bellmar.medium.com)
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Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr (developers.redhat.com)
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Excalidraw+ (blog.excalidraw.com)
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Study: 40.2% of Consumers Would Consider Switching to Municipal Broadband (www.reviews.com)
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The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing (www.newyorker.com)
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The Programming Language Zoo (plzoo.andrej.com)
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Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019) (journals.sagepub.com)
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Go Modules Cheat Sheet (encore.dev)
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021) (item?id=27025920)
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Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020) (www.mercatus.org)
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Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link (www.bbc.com)
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Highres Spectrograms with the DFT Shift Theorem (soundshader.github.io)
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Coded Illustrations (zachlieberman.medium.com)
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Andrew Ng says AI has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Bootstrapping from Hex to Bison to GCC (github.com)
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Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry (financialpost.com)
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Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs (github.com)
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Google AI leader has defected to Apple (arstechnica.com)
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HashiCorp Nomad 1.1 Beta (www.hashicorp.com)
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A blood test may help the diagnosis and treatment of depression (www.economist.com)
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VGA ROM Fonts (2020) (www.alexandrugroza.ro)
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The loneliness of the modern office team member (www.ft.com)
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Putting the fear of AirPlay into Yamaha YAS-207 soundbar (wejn.org)
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Reverse Debugging at Scale (engineering.fb.com)
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Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 3: SCSI2SD, Solaris Install and Expansion (www.rs-online.com)
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The Search for a Ranger Who Was Lost and Never Found (www.outsideonline.com)
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U.S. approves solar project in California desert (www.reuters.com)
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Polyglot Assembly – assembly code that runs on multiple architectures (vojtechkral.github.io)
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How Ayahuasca changed my perspective on life and God (pmoncada.medium.com)
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Self-Reproducing Cellular Automata (www.johndcook.com)
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Specifying State Machines with Temporal Logic (wickstrom.tech)
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Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed? (item?id=27030972)
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Why Working from Home Will Stick (www.nber.org)
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Why a small handful of counties generates the bulk of US death sentences (journals.plos.org)
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Apple Watch Likely to Gain BP, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring (www.macrumors.com)
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The Man of the Circular Ruins (planetofstorms.wordpress.com)
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TeXmacs and the Art of Mathematical Writing (texmacs.github.io)
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Contrary to Previous Belief, Strike-Slip Faults Can Generate Large Tsunamis (www.caltech.edu)
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How Long Can We Live? (www.nytimes.com)
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Show HN: IPster – Peer-to-peer simple job notifications (ipster.io)
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Show HN: Monito, a browser extension for software testers (https://getmonito.com)
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Someone stole my videos and YouTube is terminating me (www.youtube.com)
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Clodl: Turn dynamically linked ELF binaries into self-contained closures (github.com)
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Why Use a Novichok? (www.lrb.co.uk)
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North Carolina To Kickback $845.8M of Apple Employees' Taxes to Apple (www.newsobserver.com)
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White House discussing plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance (twitter.com)
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2021) (item?id=27025921)
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Show HN: ReplPad – Repl/Scratchpad (replpad.com)
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In Singapore, Covid vs. privacy is no contest (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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React best practices (onoufriosm.medium.com)
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The Agas Map of Early Modern London (mapoflondon.uvic.ca)
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Warren Buffett seeing 'substantial inflation' and raising prices (www.cnbc.com)
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Want to know how much $ the devs of those 'free' Epic Games Store games got (twitter.com)
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Sony takes minority stake in Discord, integrating into PS5 (www.theverge.com)
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The Brazilian Amazon has 'flipped' to become major producer of greenhouse gasses (thehill.com)
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Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax (www.theguardian.com)
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5B (www.verizon.com)
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Mazette (www.mazette.net)
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Women's Pockets Are Inferior (2018) (pudding.cool)
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‘I’m bursting with fiction’: Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic (www.theguardian.com)
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From Nand to Tetris (Building a Modern Computer From First Principles) (https://www.nand2tetris.org)
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Mill Computing is looking for the right VC (millcomputing.com)
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Show HN: I fetched remote jobs from Who is hiring in May 2021 (remotehunt.com)
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I Made a Spotify Roulette Game (www.roygbiv.fm)
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Venture Capital and Velocity: 11 (seeingbothsides.com)
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Peter Sunde: dark.fail domain was hijacked through fake court order (twitter.com)
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Screening healthcare workers could serve early warning system for future viruses (www.rcsi.com)
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Andreessen Horowitz plans $1 bln cryptocurrency VC fund (www.reuters.com)
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Ask HN: Can GitHub be accessed through console-only for entire workflow? (item?id=27031173)
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5B (www.axios.com)
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The Great Rewriting in Rust (deprogrammaticaipsum.com)
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Nasdaq’s Boardroom Diversity Push Isn’t Evidence-Based (www.wsj.com)
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Stadia product head John Justice has left Google (9to5google.com)
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Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ (www.theregister.com)
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Using Neural Networks to Refute Conjectures in Combinatorics (arxiv.org)
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Denmark drops Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to concerns over side effects (www.euronews.com)
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Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing (wormhole.app)
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BIO: A Simple Streaming Abstraction (z.haskell.world)
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Five years ago, I hit a woman with my car on I-75 (twitter.com)
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The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive (blogs.bl.uk)
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Ask HN: Cheapest Maps APIs (item?id=27032680)
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Do You Live in a Political Bubble? (www.nytimes.com)
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Did Sweden get Covid wrong? (unherd.com)
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Arduino Based Robotic Pixar Lamp (www.youtube.com)
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Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023 (www.macrumors.com)
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‘Cave Syndrome’ Keeps the Vaccinated in Social Isolation (www.scientificamerican.com)
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No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing) (ellegriffin.substack.com)
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Why do security keys store secrets unencrypted or poorly encrypted? (item?id=27034764)
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The Apple II has been emulated inside Unreal Engine 4 (www.inputmag.com)
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When Paid Applauders Ruled the Paris Opera House (daily.jstor.org)
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Ask HN: What do you think of Bitcoin? (item?id=27024667)
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Why Analogies Suck (2012) (itdept4life.blogspot.com)
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Looks like the EM drive is officially dead – experiments fail (www.youtube.com)
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/r/LOLHackerNews (www.reddit.com)
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Court accidentally opens Epic vs. Apple dial-in line to all speakers (www.pcgamer.com)
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Court order may shut down Clearview (news.bloomberglaw.com)
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The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Acted Illegally, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)
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Facebook, Instagram threaten to charge for access unless you give them your data (www.imore.com)
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CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale (aws.amazon.com)
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Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues (nicholaswade.medium.com)
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NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it 'touches the sun’ (www.cnet.com)
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Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ from Covid Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe (www.nytimes.com)
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Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the US (recyclednumbers.cs.princeton.edu)
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If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good (astralcodexten.substack.com)
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Show HN: An Alexa tutorial application. It interfaces Alexa with eBay's API (github.com)
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EverParse: Generating provably secure generators and parsers (www.microsoft.com)
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Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) Architecture (www.copetti.org)
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B (www.cnbc.com)
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HP-16C “Computer Scientist” calculator simulator (new.jrpn.jovial.com)
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Enve: An Open Source 2D Animation Software (itsfoss.com)
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FDA to Authorize Pfizer Vaccine for Adolescents by Early Next Week (www.nytimes.com)
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Is Inbreeding the Norm in Nature? (www.nature.com)
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What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B (www.nbcnews.com)
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NASA has a $3.5B idea to save Earth from a supervolcano apocalypse(2019) (www.businessinsider.com)
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Dark.fail Got Hijacked (twitter.com)
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What's so hard about ordering blueberries? (medium.com)
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Thoughts on Using Deno (des.wtf)
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Show HN: HMSC – Analyst for your files and folders (github.com)
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Bits from the Debian Release Team: bullseye status update (lists.debian.org)
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Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce with $146B at stake (www.seattletimes.com)
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The benefits of locality in random access (lemire.me)
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Show HN: I built Camino – like Credit Karma for your health (http://caminohealthapp.com)
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Compiling Tree Transforms to Operate on Packed Representations (2017) [pdf] (engineering.purdue.edu)
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Flash Player Getting Removed from Windows with July Patch Tuesday (www.windowslatest.com)
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Interview with Thomas Gleixner on the real-time Linux kernel patch set (www.linux.com)
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Mux (YC W16) is hiring full-stack developers to focus on Elixir and TS/React apps (mux.com)
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