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The Animal Is Tired (www.robinhobb.com)

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The Ultimate Guide to Inflation (www.lynalden.com)

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Chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences (www.cnbc.com)

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US declares state of emergency in infrastructure cyberattack (www.bbc.com)

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Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork? (www.bbc.com)

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AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years (hothardware.com)

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The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day (www.simplermachines.com)

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A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes (dynomight.net)

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Wikipedia is up! (web.archive.org)

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The word “decide” has deadly origins (www.etymologynerd.com)

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Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access (www.theverge.com)

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Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II) (nusenu.medium.com)

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I Love Coding (henrikwarne.com)

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Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API (blog.frankel.ch)

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Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (themdpreneur.com)

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OCaml is 25 years old (discuss.ocaml.org)

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The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals (www.dogatekin.com)

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New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale (www.economist.com)

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Learning how to think (2015) (fs.blog)

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Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome (www.theguardian.com)

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US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed (www.bigmessowires.com)

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So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org)

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Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly (github.com)

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There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore (www.techradar.com)

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Online cheating charges upend Dartmouth Medical School (www.nytimes.com)

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Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C (objective.st)

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Remote-first companies that actively hire (www.remotecompany.com)

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LAC: An old-school open-source combat flight simulator game (askmisterwizard.com)

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It’s not a ‘labor shortage.’ It’s a great reassessment of work in America (www.washingtonpost.com)

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PocketPCR (gaudi.ch)

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Shelljs – Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js (github.com)

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Show HN: RonDB (open-source): The first LATS database in the cloud (www.rondb.com)

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History of RSpec (www.stevenrbaker.com)

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The Syslog Hell (techblog.bozho.net)

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SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket (www.space.com)

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Beautiful Italian towns will pay you to work remotely (edition.cnn.com)

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Introduction to Security Good Practices (dataswamp.org)

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Elon Musk the master promoter. A case study (keith404.medium.com)

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Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey (gizmodo.com)

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Does NMN improve metabolic health in humans? (peterattiamd.com)

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Why psychology isn’t science (2012) (www.latimes.com)

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How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism (blog.sessionstack.com)

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Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (dsp.stackexchange.com)

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Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as your app (item?id=27102020)

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Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder (pypi.org)

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New York Attorney General declares top ISPs committed net neutrality fraud (www.zdnet.com)

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When Hackers Were Heroes (cacm.acm.org)

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EFF Questions Methodology Behind Dartmouth Cheating Allegations [pdf] (www.eff.org)

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Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use (2020) (www.reuters.com)

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When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage (joe.cat)

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Automatically transcribe an interview, meeting or video (voicedocs.com)

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Service-Oriented vs. Monolith: Organizational Perspective (p99th.substack.com)

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The Wrong Abstraction (2016) (sandimetz.com)

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App that sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers saves lives in Denmark (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A team of Colorado innovators granted a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon (www.denverpost.com)

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Commodore’s Assemblers: Overview (www.pagetable.com)

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Why flutter doesn’t deserve a place on the Linux desktop (news.itsfoss.com)

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A sulky Russian model became China's slacker icon (www.bbc.com)

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Show HN: Run your ghost blog on Raspberry Pi for free (viggy28.dev)

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Why Aren’t SMS Interventions Designed to Boost College Success Working at Scale? (behavioralscientist.org)

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Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree (2020) (emergencemagazine.org)

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PfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package (www.netgate.com)

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Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users over the past year (therecord.media)

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The Libcurl Transfer State Machine (daniel.haxx.se)

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Authors, 80 science fiction stories shorter than novels (bitmason.blogspot.com)

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Who Is “Public” Data For? (lithub.com)

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Gargantuanisation (www.lrb.co.uk)

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Young Adults Who've Had Covid-19 Show Signs of Lasting Cardiovascular Damage (www.sciencealert.com)

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How China lends: A rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments (www.piie.com)

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Where to find contract work as a developer? (item?id=27097426)

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Germany Rejected Nuclear Power–and Deadly Emissions Spiked (www.wired.com)

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The Lives of Napoleon (www.historytoday.com)

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PEP 657 – Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks (www.python.org)

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San Francisco All-Female Hacker House Aims to Support Women Builders (thenewstack.io)

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Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence? (item?id=27102764)

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Show HN: A portfolio website simulating Deepin Linux's GUI using Vue.js (https://goodmanwen.github.io)

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Editorial: Creativity Lost (1978) (aapt.scitation.org)

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ST-NeRF: Compositing and Editing for Video Synthesis (www.unite.ai)

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Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows (theconversation.com)

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The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth (2012) (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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The Lyme Disease Vaccine (www.historyofvaccines.org)

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The Contemplative Life: the monastic cowl (2020) (vestoj.com)

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How MDMA and Psilocybin Became Hot Investments (www.nytimes.com)

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Chinese rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean, draws criticism from NASA (www.reuters.com)

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Trouble at Basecamp (postbureaucracy.substack.com)

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Why Even the Studios Behind Bestselling Games Shut Down (www.theverge.com)

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The phenomenon of “mathcoins” – Fancy tech and academic obscurantism (twitter.com)

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Transparent Textures (www.transparenttextures.com)

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Snap Judgment: A brief history of trick photography (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Chinese Villages, Security Forces Revealed Inside Bhutan's Borders (foreignpolicy.com)

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The History of RPGs (www.pcgamer.com)

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96% iOS 14.5 App Tracking Opt-Out Rate (www.flurry.com)

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Possibly the earliest video game – from 1917 (www.reddit.com)

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An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar (www.mcsweeneys.net)

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A metropolis in medieval Cambodia: how many people lived in the Angkor Empire (theconversation.com)

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How private is your Gmail, and should you switch? (www.theguardian.com)

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Facebook is now threatening iOS 14.5 users who block tracking (www.tomsguide.com)

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The New Scientific Method: Identity Politics (www.wsj.com)

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Where have all the Uber drivers gone? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction (www.theatlantic.com)

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EFF asks Dartmouth to withdraw cheating charges against med students (www.eff.org)

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Biden declares state of emergency over fuel cyber-attack (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Mail Order Bride Test (2020) (capitalandgrowth.org)

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The unsolved mystery of Sri Lanka's 'Stargate' (www.bbc.com)

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The US restaurant industry is lacking in wages, not workers (www.theguardian.com)

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Update on Ivermectin for Covid-19 (sebastianrushworth.com)

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Refactoring and Design Patterns (refactoring.guru)

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Presumed Portrait of Catherine Howard May Depict Anne of Cleves (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Ask HN: Ideas either implemented or proposed historically to level playing field (item?id=27097436)

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Legalist is hiring a Director of Sales/Investments (www.legalist.com)

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