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Scala 3.0 (github.com)

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Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals (www.vice.com)

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What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages (blog.roastmylandingpage.com)

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Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat (blog.zulip.com)

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Notion API – public beta (https://developers.notion.so)

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Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban (themarkup.org)

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Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor (fingerprintjs.com)

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$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin (www.cnbc.com)

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Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom (www.bloomberg.com)

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Open Source Continuous File Synchronization (github.com)

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Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan (github.com)

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Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker (hackaday.io)

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20 movies every physics lover should watch in their lifetime (www.wondersofphysics.com)

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CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Go Maskless in Most Places (www.nytimes.com)

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How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) (thomas-godden.medium.com)

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Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go (threedots.tech)

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Show HN: Learn Python the Right Way – Free Introduction to Python Book (https://learnpythontherightway.com)

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Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production (item?id=27142930)

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Freshly Made Plutonium from Outer Space Found on Ocean Floor (www.npr.org)

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Three Things to Never Build Yourself: Auth, Notifications, & Payments (www.courier.com)

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Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable Notebook Editor (observablehq.com)

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Tether reserves backed by 2.9% cash (www.ft.com)

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Enigma: GPT-2 trained on 10K Nature Papers: Can you spot the difference? (stefanzukin.com)

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Golden Handcuffs (avc.com)

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Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs (https://hexo.press)

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BackBlaze: Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking (www.backblaze.com)

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Fly’s Prometheus Metrics (fly.io)

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The Bizarre World of Scam Audiobooks (www.vice.com)

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Irish health service hit by cyber attack (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Randal O’Toole Gets High-Speed Rail Wrong (pedestrianobservations.com)

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Multicore OCaml: April 2021 (discuss.ocaml.org)

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Azar, the Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world (restofworld.org)

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A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection (drive.google.com)

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In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig (www.fastly.com)

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Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Tried Nvidia's GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi (www.jeffgeerling.com)

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Why load balancing gRPC is tricky? (majidfn.com)

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Six Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Getting a Promotion (radhika.dev)

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Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars (www.wsj.com)

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Framework Laptop pre-orders are open, starting at $999 (frame.work)

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"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio] (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate (nautil.us)

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Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia (nautil.us)

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Target stops selling Pokémon cards in store, citing safety concerns (www.polygon.com)

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A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free (souradip.mookerj.ee)

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Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses (nikonrumors.com)

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Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999 (techcrunch.com)

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Pg8000 – Pure-Python PostgreSQL driver (github.com)

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Framework Laptop – pre-orders are now open (frame.work)

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Ending CAPTCHAs: Introducing Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Hypersonic flight: A new fuel for jets and missiles is on the cards (www.economist.com)

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Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go in Terms of Input? (www.unite.ai)

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Microfarms come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts (www.latimes.com)

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Tesla owner arrested after riding in the back seat while it was on autopilot (news.sky.com)

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The Pentagon inches toward letting AI control weapons (www.wired.com)

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Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic (www.theinsight.org)

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Show HN: Hupreter – Create apps by describing them in English (item?id=27142897)

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The Pin-Pen Merger (www.acelinguist.com)

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By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave (arstechnica.com)

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Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam (www.lastweekinaws.com)

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Show HN: Remake – Build web apps with HTML (remaketheweb.com)

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QuanTaichi: A Compiler for Quantized (“Low-Precision”) Simulations on the GPU (yuanming.taichi.graphics)

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Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vaccination (www.nytimes.com)

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Spearmint – JavaScript Test-Code Generator – New In-App Testing (www.spearmintjs.com)

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Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently (www.cbc.ca)

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Bill C-10 would require YouTube, other platforms to recommend Canadian content (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Three students sue coding bootcamp Lambda School alleging false advertising (techcrunch.com)

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Black homeowner has white friend stand in for third appraisal. Value doubles. (www.indystar.com)

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Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data from all the data brokers (privacybot.io)

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Elon Musk: Bitcoin's energy usage trend over the past few months is insane (twitter.com)

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The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France (publicdomainreview.org)

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Research: Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes on Social Media (www.npr.org)

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Binance Probed by U.S. as Money-Laundering, Tax Sleuths Bore In (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: Where is a nice place to host which is not AWS / GCP types (item?id=27150689)

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Blind people, advocates slam company claiming to make websites ADA compliant (www.nbcnews.com)

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DC police suffer ‘massive’ info leak after ransomware attack (www.aljazeera.com)

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Superdeterminism could reconcile quantum and relativity (www.frontiersin.org)

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Google wins cloud deal from SpaceX for Starlink internet connectivity (www.cnbc.com)

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Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto (techcrunch.com)

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Facebook Wi-Fi (www.facebook.com)

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Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior (www.psychologytoday.com)

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.C as a file extension for C++ is not portable (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

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Tether Backed by 3.87% Cash (www.theblockcrypto.com)

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Tether publishes ... two pie charts of its reserves (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Lemonade says website security flaw is ‘by design’ (techcrunch.com)

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Cheating at School Is Easier Than Ever–and It’s Rampant (www.wsj.com)

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Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award (arstechnica.com)

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X1 Carbon Gen 9: Lenovo has to be careful with the ThinkPad keyboard (www.notebookcheck.net)

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Principled Procedural Parsing (2019) [pdf] (norswap.com)

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Refusing to Show ID Is Not a Crime (reason.com)

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Investigate the Origins of Covid-19 (science.sciencemag.org)

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Coinbase is no longer allowing new hires to negotiate their salaries (www.businessinsider.com)

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Show HN: Search 1M Linux kernel commit messages (linux-commits-search.typesense.org)

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US officials confirm 130 incidents of mysterious Havana syndrome brain injury (www.theguardian.com)

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The most intense firestorms in the world (www.bbc.com)

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A neuroscientist who lost her mind says it can happen to anyone – Quartz (qz.com)

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Military experts fear the Pentagon’s been sucked into the AI hype machine (thenextweb.com)

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Notion's API Is Live (developers.notion.com)

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The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology (www.youtube.com)

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Why Epic Is Burning Its Own Cash to Cook Apple (www.theverge.com)

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Experimental Security Assessment of Mercedes-Benz Cars (twitter.com)

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The Simplest $250K ARR Startup You've Ever Heard Of (www.indiehackers.com)

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Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers (arstechnica.com)

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Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5M in Ransom to Hackers (www.nytimes.com)

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Top Ten Git Tips and Tricks (www.honeybadger.io)

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Apple's AirTags Are a Gift to Stalkers (www.wired.com)

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Brave Browser Adds Support for Blockchain Domain Names (brave.com)

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A self-hosted Ada-inspired programming language for small systems (github.com)

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Bitemporal Information Modeling (en.wikipedia.org)

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Tether’s First Breakdown of Reserves (amycastor.com)

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DIY pressure sensor at ZERO COST with materials you definitely have (ns.reddit.com)

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A Fossil Squid Eating a Crustacean Being Eaten by a Shark (phys.org)

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Arduino's New DIY Kit Makes It Easy to Build Smart Home Gadgets (gizmodo.com)

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EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled (www.theguardian.com)

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New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot (www.quantamagazine.org)

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A guide to home row mods (alt, shift, ctrl, super) (precondition.github.io)

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Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals (2020) (www.nytimes.com)

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Overconfidence is responsible for a lot of mistakes, here’s how to avoid it (theconversation.com)

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New Story (YC S15) Is Hiring Head of People and Culture (newstorycharity.org)

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BuildStream (YC S19) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)

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