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Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns (www.euronews.com)

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FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices (www.fragattacks.com)

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Show HN: I built mmm.page → dead simple, drag and drop personal website creator (https://build.mmm.page)

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I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here’s What Happened (www.intego.com)

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PhotorealismEnhancement: Enhancing the Realism of Synthetic Images (intel-isl.github.io)

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Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production (www.reuters.com)

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Cloudflare on the Edge (stratechery.com)

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Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely? (item?id=27123553)

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Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux (http://Sequencer64.com)

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AirGradient: DIY Air Quality Monitoring with Open-Source Hardware & Firmware (www.airgradient.com)

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The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta (blog.arduino.cc)

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The Importance of Humility in Software Development (humbletoolsmith.com)

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Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything (www.justuseemail.com)

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The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition (blog.rust-lang.org)

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Deno v1.10 Released (deno.com)

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Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19 (www.nih.gov)

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For those who can afford it, quitting has become the ultimate form of self-care (www.thecut.com)

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Pprof++: A Go Profiler with Hardware Performance Monitoring (eng.uber.com)

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Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules (www.techspot.com)

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A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience (arstechnica.com)

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TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z (www.axios.com)

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Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis (arxiv.org)

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Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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How image search works at Dropbox (dropbox.tech)

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Show HN: Improve your front end skills by practicing on real design templates (www.codewell.cc)

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Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. police records (apnews.com)

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Launch HN: UPchieve (YC W21 Nonprofit) – Live tutoring for low-income students (item?id=27118794)

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Good Data Scientist, Bad Data Scientist (ianwhitestone.work)

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3k-pound triceratops skull excavated in South Dakota (2020) (www.usatoday.com)

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Guix 1.3 (guix.gnu.org)

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Scientists prefer studying pretty plants to dull ones (www.nature.com)

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Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master (github.com)

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I could send any text message from Indian government IDs (kmskrishna.me)

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An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers (www.lagerdata.com)

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OpenAstroTracker: A cheap 3D-printed tracking mount for DSLR astrophotography (github.com)

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Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (www.visualizingsep.com)

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Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia (www.nytimes.com)

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One of the World’s Longest-Running Experiments Sends Up Sprouts (www.nytimes.com)

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How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) (www.npr.org)

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The Oncoming Ransomware Storm (www.stephendiehl.com)

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Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (2015) (www.bloomberg.com)

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A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX (arstechnica.com)

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Consumer prices increase 2.6 percent (www.bls.gov)

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The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy (lithub.com)

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A Misleading CDC Number (www.nytimes.com)

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Why “Idea” People Are Risky and What to Do About It (www.betteroutcomes.xyz)

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The great resignation is coming? (dailymirror.co.za)

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Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing longest water channel of the ancient world (phys.org)

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Man Used Coinbase to Pay Hitman in Bitcoin for Wife's Murder, FBI Says (decrypt.co)

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Integrating Rust into the Android Open Source Project (security.googleblog.com)

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Finance Giant Plaid Paid People $500 for Their Employer Payroll Logins (www.vice.com)

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Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation (www.rup12.net)

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Building a new vector based storage model (questdb.slab.com)

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Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days (2020) (www.theregister.com)

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A Somewhat Comprehensive History of U.S. Senators Who Have Died in Duels (defector.com)

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Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin (www.theguardian.com)

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CircleCI Acquires Vamp (blog.vamp.io)

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FlatCAM: Free and Open-Source PCB Cam (flatcam.org)

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Open source computer vision API (https://openvisionapi.com)

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Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting German WhatsApp Data (www.bloomberg.com)

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Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s (www.schneier.com)

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The Machinery of Freedom [pdf] (www.daviddfriedman.com)

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A New Architecture for Plaid Link: Server-Driven UI with Directed Graphs (plaid.com)

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Updated Concept of “The Surgical Team” (www.codeproject.com)

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Amygdala hijack (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming (us14.campaign-archive.com)

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Show HN: I built uFincs – a privacy-first, encrypted personal finance app (https://ufincs.com)

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Discord's new UX design is harmful to the visually impaired and colorblind (support.discord.com)

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Asynchronous Tasks with FastAPI and Celery (testdriven.io)

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Learning Skeletal Articulations with Neural Blend Shapes (peizhuoli.github.io)

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Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family (www.businessinsider.com)

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Chipotle bumps pay to 15$, adds benefits in push to hire 20k (www.linkedin.com)

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Can you IoT an Airwick air freshener? (2020) (jcallaghan.com)

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US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay fell (www.theguardian.com)

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Apple Gave Zoom Access to Special API for Camera During Split View Multitasking (www.macrumors.com)

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Amazon Suspends Amazon-Native Brands Mpow and Aukey (www.marketplacepulse.com)

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Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019) (joshdance.medium.com)

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New Flask, Werkzeug et al. major versions released (palletsprojects.com)

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Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society” (arstechnica.com)

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Undisembodying Recorded Music (www.charlespetzold.com)

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Compiler assumptions (babel.dev)

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Twitter Said It Restricted Palestinian Writer's Account by Accident (www.vice.com)

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Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in UK law (www.theguardian.com)

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M1 iPad Pro over 50% Faster Than Previous Generation in Early Benchmarks (www.macrumors.com)

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A Feather in Her Cap (www.historytoday.com)

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The Meaning of Open (2009) (publicpolicy.googleblog.com)

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Starting the World's First V8 Powered Tesla [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Mathematicians Use Homology to Make Sense of Topology (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It (taibbi.substack.com)

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Salesforce Is Down (http://status.salesforce.com)

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Salesforce is having a system wide outage, status page also down (item?id=27123997)

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California has a $75bn budget surplus (thehill.com)

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If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Show HN: Inliner - Pull blocks of code into a single file (inliner.io)

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Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller (dmitry.gr)

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Verification = TCB/PB Reduction (blog.compiler.ai)

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Transport vs. Network (www.potaroo.net)

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Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet? (item?id=27117924)

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Ask HN: Is Bitcoin part of the Money Supply? Is it affecting Inflation? (item?id=27122235)

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Trump's blog isn't lighting up internet, showing effectiveness of deplatforming (www.nbcnews.com)

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App Store stopped over $1.5B in suspect transactions in 2020 (www.apple.com)

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Footage of Israeli defenses vs. rockets around Tel Aviv [video] (twitter.com)

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Apple is using payment transactions information to target ads (twitter.com)

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How we built a real time privacy inspector (2020) (themarkup.org)

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Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps (www.theguardian.com)

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There aren’t enough trees to offset CO2 emissions – and there never will be (theconversation.com)

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Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon hits record in April (phys.org)

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How to Solve the Homeless Problem, Once and for All (michaelshellenberger.substack.com)

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Party rounds (2013) (blog.samaltman.com)

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Show HN: A curated collection of pretty places on the Moon (lunasights.jatan.space)

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When One City Gave People Cash, They Went Out and Got Jobs (reasonstobecheerful.world)

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Show HN: See how many podcast listeners there are for any topic (rephonic.com)

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Ford Patents Tech to Annoy Drivers with In-Car Advertisements (futurism.com)

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A CIA trap for Bin Laden led to vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan (newatlas.com)

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Steve Jobs on Ideas versus Execution (jots.mypopescu.com)

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Japan’s Rikunabi Scandal Shows the Dangers of Privacy Law Loopholes – EFF (www.eff.org)

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Major Offshore Wind Project Sets Stage for Clean Energy Shift (www.npr.org)

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What Salesforce has learned as it reopens offices (www.cnn.com)

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Predicting the HN front page with deep learning (www.comet.ml)

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Raw footage: Israeli missle defense system against 10s of rockets (twitter.com)

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Kenya shares census technology with other African countries (www.iafrikan.com)

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The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Data Engineer (jobs.lever.co)

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Algolia (YC W14) Is Hiring a Developer Relations Ambassador (www.algolia.com)

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KaiPod Learning (YC S21) Is Hiring (www.workatastartup.com)

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Join YC's software team and help build the OS that runs YC itself (www.ycombinator.com)

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