hackerNews

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Google Docs will move to canvas based rendering instead of DOM (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

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Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue (www.businessinsider.com.au)

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Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing (arstechnica.com)

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Google fined 100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance (www.repubblica.it)

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Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network (positive.security)

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Erlang/OTP 24 Highlights (blog.erlang.org)

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Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts (www.reuters.com)

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Midair Collision over Denver (avherald.com)

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Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin (twitter.com)

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Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (www.theparisreview.org)

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JWT should not be your default for sessions (evertpot.com)

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Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller (dmitry.gr)

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Houdini – CSS is now extendable with JavaScript (developer.mozilla.org)

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Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V (discuss.haiku-os.org)

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Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512 (ridiculousfish.com)

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Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service (www.zdnet.com)

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Apple Design Resources (developer.apple.com)

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Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital lost $20B in two days (www.bloomberg.com)

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Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk (www.theguardian.com)

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Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning (kobra.dev)

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Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project (github.com)

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Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations (github.blog)

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A Brief History of People Losing Their Minds in Antarctica (www.gq.com)

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Flask 2.0 (flask.palletsprojects.com)

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Security researcher found Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that existed since the beginning (www.theverge.com)

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Consumer Prices in U.S. Increase by Most Since 2009 (www.bloomberg.com)

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Writing a Programming Book in 2021 (jmtirado.net)

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Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V (discuss.haiku-os.org)

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Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm (www.reuters.com)

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The Lisperati1000 Is a Cyberdeck Terminal Dedicated to Lisp Programming (www.hackster.io)

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Pyodide: Python for the Browser (lwn.net)

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Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (alexpearce.me)

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Show HN: Csvbox.io – CSV import button for a web app, SaaS or API (https://csvbox.io)

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Building a Space-Based ISP (stackoverflow.blog)

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Avoid Git LFS if possible (gregoryszorc.com)

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Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade (arstechnica.com)

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Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatient Visits (medicine.yale.edu)

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What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? (www.energy.gov)

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CP/M for OS X (github.com)

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The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World (www.cambridge.org)

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WHO List of Essential Medicines (list.essentialmeds.org)

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Replit Apps (blog.replit.com)

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Open source mechanical Swiss watch movement (openmovement.org)

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Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says (www.wbur.org)

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A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13 (lwn.net)

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The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959 (www.newyorker.com)

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An Analysis of Bitcoin's Throughput Bottlenecks (github.com)

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The digital natives are not who you think they are (blog.torh.net)

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Docusaurus 2 Beta (docusaurus.io)

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Using Computer Modern on the web (2013) (www.checkmyworking.com)

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Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (2011) (tex.stackexchange.com)

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Multics Public Access (ban.ai)

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Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert (www.bbc.com)

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One person's war on junk mail (www.langston.com)

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55,000 lines of Rust code later: A debugger is born (github.com)

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How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)

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Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’ (www.bbc.com)

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Hello, OpenPGP CA (sequoia-pgp.org)

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Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (www.whitehouse.gov)

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The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Apple Robbed the Mob’s Bank (mobiledevmemo.com)

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Scientists Catch Jumping Genes Rewiring Genomes (www.quantamagazine.org)

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A Way to Manage Dotfiles (github.com)

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Improved distributed algorithms for fundamental graph problems (2017) (dspace.mit.edu)

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Chicago Police Started Secret Drone Program Using Untraceable Cash: Report (gizmodo.com)

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Amazon Warns Employees Not to Trust Their Unionizing Co-Workers (www.vice.com)

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Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit (www.bath.ac.uk)

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Ancient poop reveals ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria (www.sciencemag.org)

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Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight (simpleflying.com)

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Inflation speeds up in April as consumer prices leap 4.2%, fastest since 2008 (www.cnbc.com)

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Letter reveals Einstein's thinking on bees, birds and physics (phys.org)

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Ask HN: Digital nomads, where's the best place in the world to work from? (item?id=27129943)

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Why corona patients become critically ill (www.amsterdamumc.org)

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Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010) (booktwo.org)

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FFmpeg as a Library : libav tutorial (github.com)

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BMC: Accelerating Memcached using In-kernel Caching and Pre-stack Processing (pchaigno.github.io)

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Chemical giants hid dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ in food packaging (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever (item?id=27136202)

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Random Walks (2009) (pi.math.cornell.edu)

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GitHub Graduation 2021 (github.com)

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Battery Breakthrough for Electric Cars (news.harvard.edu)

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WeWork CEO Says Least Engaged Employees Enjoy Working from Home (www.wsj.com)

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Python to Distributed Python to Airflow task in ~5 lines of code (www.astronomer.io)

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Reverse-Engineering a CRC Algorithm (2010) (www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz)

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Galois’ Last Letter (2008) (www.neverendingbooks.org)

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Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’ (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Apple employees petition demanding investigation into misogynistic hire (www.theverge.com)

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Semantic Reader: Show Reference Abstracts in Context, and More (www.semanticscholar.org)

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Waiters Reject Signing Bonuses, Hobbling an $860B Industry (www.bloomberg.com)

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Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads team (www.imore.com)

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Three Out of Four Gas Stations Are Dry in Some Southern Cities (www.bloomberg.com)

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Project Isabela: Eliminating Goats from the Largest Galapagos Island (www.galapagos.org)

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Amazon wins EU court fight over $300M tax ruling (apnews.com)

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Show HN: Mobile App Automizer (github.com)

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SpaceX: Arrest warrant for YouTuber who broke into launch site in Texas (www.independent.co.uk)

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Stripe announces pricing for invoicing (stripe.com)

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Ethereum Creator, Vitalik Buterin, Donates over $1B to India Covid Relief (www.thestreet.com)

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Kimarite (en.wikipedia.org)

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Bose built the first FDA-cleared hearing aids that won't require a doctor visit (www.engadget.com)

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Cerne Giant in Dorset dates from Anglo-Saxon times, analysis suggests (www.theguardian.com)

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Tesla suspends Bitcoin car sales over environmental impact (www.theverge.com)

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Going into the City (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Type-guided development and garden paths (frasertweedale.github.io)

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Vitalik Buterin donates more than $60M to charity after selling meme tokens (www.theblockcrypto.com)

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Facebook moderator describes 'awful' content, told to try 'karaoke or painting' (thehill.com)

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Moving from Tailwind to CSS Variables (mikerogers.io)

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API Blueprint – API Design Tool (apiblueprint.org)

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Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing [90wpm] (arstechnica.com)

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Waymo Self Driving Taxi Goes Rogue: Blocks Traffic, Evades Capture – JJRicks #54 (www.youtube.com)

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ETH's creator sells quantities of gifted coins, crashing subset of crypto (www.coindesk.com)

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List of people declared persona non grata (en.wikipedia.org)

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Antonio García Martínez, a newly hired Apple engineer, is gone from Apple (twitter.com)

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Why Rust in Android will use the Soong build system, not Cargo (www.theregister.com)

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Docker can slow down your code and distort your benchmarks (pythonspeed.com)

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Walt Disney: Multiplane Camera (1957) (www.youtube.com)

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Millennials dominate workforce, but they're still 10 times poorer than boomers (www.businessinsider.com)

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In new US broadband plan, cable is in for the fight of its life (www.protocol.com)

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President Signs Executive Order to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity (www.whitehouse.gov)

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Taiwan, hit by power outage, works to restore supply by evening (www.reuters.com)

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The Einstein–Szilárd Letter (en.wikipedia.org)

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Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels (thehill.com)

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Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact (m.dw.com)

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The resting places of giants (2014) (romangreece.wordpress.com)

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Palestinian Officials: Iran Is Giving Us the Rockets We Use to Attack Israel (www.dailywire.com)

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Companies are learning to read your mind (ig.ft.com)

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Re: “Does a compiler use all x86 instructions?” (twitter.com)

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Implementing a Zero Trust security model at Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

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Discovery of new geologic process calls for changes to plate tectonic cycle (phys.org)

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Vitalik Buterin's $1B crypto donation to India Covid Relief fund (etherscan.io)

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New Developments Lower Rents in Surrounding Neighborhoods, Study Says (www.planetizen.com)

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The Blue Check Mark’s Evil Cousin (www.theatlantic.com)

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How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body (www.vice.com)

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Algorithmic fatigue (www.reaktor.com)

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IBM Unveils First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology (www.youtube.com)

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Fed’s Clarida ‘Surprised’ by Inflation Report (www.wsj.com)

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Speedbuilding LLVM/Clang in 2 minutes on ARM (www.cambus.net)

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Cryptocurrency’s Value Surges to $45B One Day After Its Debut (www.bloomberg.com)

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Gender bias in popular movies – A computational approach (gendermov.antonomase.fr)

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There’s an Exodus from the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News and Bad News (www.nytimes.com)

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Debuggable Deep Networks: Sparse Linear Models (gradientscience.org)

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Better than holograms: 3D-animated starships can be viewed from any angle (arstechnica.com)

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Lessons learned while building an ASIC design (zipcpu.com)

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Keep an eye out for a chance of northern lights tonight (www.cbc.ca)

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My Beloved College Town Has a Problem: It’s Too Popular (www.nytimes.com)

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$400 Life-vest requires subscribtion to activate (www.youtube.com)

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The Rise and Fall of Online Culture Wars (astralcodexten.substack.com)

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How to find a career in climate solutions (www.soapboxproject.org)

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Iron Dome (en.wikipedia.org)

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How date-fns came about (twitter.com)

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Cover (YC W16) Is Hiring (jobs.lever.co)

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Rainforest (YC S12) Is Hiring for React and Ruby Engineers (jobs.lever.co)

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Community Phone Company (YC W19) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)

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