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Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? · Babel (babeljs.io)

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Amazon Echo will start sharing your Internet with neighbors in June (www.amazon.com)

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The one where writing books is not really a good idea (ellegriffin.substack.com)

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Game developers break silence around salaries (www.axios.com)

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Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse (www.narrator.ai)

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You Can’t Buy a Thermapen on Amazon (2016) (blog.thermoworks.com)

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Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root (berthub.eu)

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We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon (panic.com)

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Atlas, a (hopefully) better engineering IDE (http://atlasengineering.io)

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Explaining why modern 50mm lenses are so damned complicated (www.dpreview.com)

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Pfizer Covid vaccine protects against worrying coronavirus variants (www.nature.com)

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Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2 (www.kedglobal.com)

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eBPF on Windows (github.com)

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Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma (astronomycommunity.nature.com)

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One million people saw my dumbest tweet (mccormick.cx)

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US Army Training for Advanced Situational Awareness (April, 2021) [pdf] (armypubs.army.mil)

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Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships (stackoverflow.blog)

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The FBI Seized Safe Deposit Boxes Knowing ‘Some’ Belonged to ‘Honest Citizens’ (reason.com)

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Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say (www.bloomberg.com)

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Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam (tribunemag.co.uk)

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OpenPOWER Foundation announces LibreBMC, a POWER-based, fully open-source BMC (openpowerfoundation.org)

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Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis (deepmind.com)

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Epidemiologist R Handbook (epirhandbook.com)

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Why does every advert look the same? Blame Corporate Memphis (www.wired.co.uk)

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Show HN: Django SQL Dashboard (django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io)

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Poor Disk Performance (www.brendangregg.com)

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NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot (www.caranddriver.com)

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DragonflyBSD 6.0 (www.dragonflybsd.org)

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Show HN: Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos (www.shelf.so)

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Using GDPR to obtain one’s data as JSON (mazzo.li)

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How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World (evoniuk.github.io)

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Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor (apnews.com)

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Engineer Who Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Physics (www.wondersofphysics.com)

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Hacker News Classics (2018) (jsomers.net)

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How to write a resume that converts (www.productlessons.xyz)

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'Sesame Street': From Radical Experiment to Beloved TV Mainstay (www.npr.org)

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Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video] (www.youtube.com)

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CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine (cve.mitre.org)

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Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3 (https://pyre-check.org)

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Hydrofoiling (www.tbray.org)

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Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary? (item?id=27107919)

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Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine (arxiv.org)

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Praise for Alpine Linux (portal.drewdevault.com)

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A “Perfect Coronal Mass Ejection” Could Be a Nightmare (www.arrl.org)

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Old Disease Names Frequently Found on Death Certificates (www.usgennet.org)

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Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1 (trycombine.com)

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I’m Trying to Understand Hedonic Adjustments (www.epsilontheory.com)

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An incomparable intellectual who fell through the cracks of history (www.nature.com)

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Why should I put my website to sleep? (www.nightnight.xn--q9jyb4c)

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Experts suggest French insurer AXA's plan to not pay ransomw will set precedent (www.cyberscoop.com)

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Trading Pit Hand Signals (tradingpithistory.com)

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Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode (github.com)

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Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking (dl.acm.org)

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Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2 (www.globalbankingandfinance.com)

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Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores (blog.mozilla.org)

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Why OpenDoc failed, and then failed 3 more times? (instadeq.com)

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Scrap for cash: Bronze Age witnessed revolution in small change across Europe (phys.org)

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Local Register Allocator for 8086 (github.com)

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ServiceNow acquires Lightstep (www.zdnet.com)

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Firefox Public Data Report (data.firefox.com)

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Show HN: DataProfiler – What's in your data? Extract schema, stats and entities (github.com)

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Unintended Instructions on x86 (github.com)

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Advancing Sports Analytics Through AI Research (deepmind.com)

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Gas shortage: Gov. Cooper declares state of emergency for NC (wlos.com)

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Amazon Managers Say They 'Hire to Fire' to Meet Internal Turnover Goal (www.businessinsider.com)

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Microsoft Space Simulator (1994) (archive.org)

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FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15 (www.nytimes.com)

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A game that almost died during Covid and how I made it an app (blog.coltonbrown.com)

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Total Relighting: Learning to Relight Portraits for Background Replacement (augmentedperception.github.io)

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Rust 1.52.1 (blog.rust-lang.org)

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Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015) (www.nature.com)

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Nonsense Laboratory (artsexperiments.withgoogle.com)

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AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher (9to5mac.com)

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Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me (item?id=27111582)

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Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated (electrek.co)

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A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021 (www.thenation.com)

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Tesla Model 3 Owners Are the Happiest Car Owners, According to Consumer Reports (www.motorbiscuit.com)

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Babel has no money because someone took a $130K salary and didn't work (twitter.com)

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Newly Identified Species of Saber-Toothed Cat So Big It Hunted Rhinos (www.sciencealert.com)

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Art students learn to critique the work of others. Engineers don't, and it shows (threadreaderapp.com)

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How Coinbase is rethinking its approach to compensation (blog.coinbase.com)

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Folio: A customizable test framework to build your own test frameworks (github.com)

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The Travels of a Master Storyteller (www.theparisreview.org)

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A Warning from History: The Carrington Event Was Not Unique (spaceweatherarchive.com)

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Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world (www.theguardian.com)

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Peter Thiel's Religion (perell.com)

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Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency (habr.com)

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Developer-First (1codingwhale.medium.com)

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Video Compression Basics (rastergrid.com)

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Babel funds were misallocated for years (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: How can I read faster? (item?id=27103792)

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Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine Bitcoin (arstechnica.com)

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California's New Math War (www.sfchronicle.com)

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MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD (www.nature.com)

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The economics of movie production placements (thehustle.co)

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Accelerating Eye Movement Research for Wellness and Accessibility (ai.googleblog.com)

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The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek (2006) (hbr.org)

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ML data and model drift in Prometheus and Grafana (boxkite.ml)

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DNA’s Histone Spools Hint at How Complex Cells Evolved (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Quaker Oaks (2014) (www.friendsjournal.org)

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Pipeline hacker apologize promise to ransom less controversial targets in future (www.theverge.com)

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96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find (arstechnica.com)

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Your Immune System Evolves to Fight Coronavirus Variants (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical (andarilhoacordado.medium.com)

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Show HN: Carros.com, a simple car classified website I made (https://carros.com)

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Any similar site to Hacker News but for crypto news? (item?id=27109067)

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Three Highly Underrated Software Engineering Skills (betterprogramming.pub)

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Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? (item?id=27108910)

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The Festival of Britain at 70: questioning the myth (www.iconeye.com)

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US Is Joining Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist Content Online (www.whitehouse.gov)

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Nearly 40% of those who've died from Covid-19 had diabetes, ADA says (www.thedenverchannel.com)

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Why do characters never say bye on the phone? (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Automatic Documentation for TypeScript Packages (https://www.jsdocs.io)

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Dark-Matter Storm Is Speeding Toward Our Solar System (dailygalaxy.com)

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Oracle Executive's Interview with Reporter He Sought Dirt On (theintercept.com)

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Ask HN: Which tech documentaries would you recommend and why? (item?id=27109607)

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Innovating with Rust (aws.amazon.com)

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Train firm's 'worker bonus' email is cybersecurity test (www.theguardian.com)

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Genes Linked to Self-Awareness in Modern Humans Were Less Common in Neandertals (www.scientificamerican.com)

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CNCF: Third Party Dependencies that have been Relicensed to AGPL (github.com)

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Sony expects PS5 supply issues to continue into next year (www.theverge.com)

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Electric cars ‘will be cheaper to produce than fossil fuel vehicles by 2027’ (www.theguardian.com)

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McDonald's franchisees say an 'inflationary time bomb' will cause price hikes (www.businessinsider.com)

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AMZN blocked 10B listings and spent $700M fighting fraud last year (www.geekwire.com)

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Why Am I Still Embarrassed About Things That Happened 10 Years Ago? (gizmodo.com)

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Collabarate on bringing about the end of crypto currencies like Bitcoin (github.com)

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On Substack, You Can Never Go Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)

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DHS launches warning system to find domestic terrorism threats on social media (www.nbcnews.com)

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Whole Earth Catalog founder and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand (reason.com)

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