hackerNews

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The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway (alexskra.com)

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IPv4 pricing (docs.hetzner.com)

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Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (yosefk.com)

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Calculus Made Easy (calculusmadeeasy.org)

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Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers (earthly.dev)

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France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes (www.sciencemag.org)

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Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code (www.techdirt.com)

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From Stolen Laptop to Inside the Company Network (dolosgroup.io)

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Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source (www.orbiter-forum.com)

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'Arthur,' the longest-running kids animated series, is ending (www.npr.org)

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Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks (www.openai.com)

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Duolingo enters 'major leagues' with $6.5B valuation in strong debut (www.reuters.com)

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Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It (theapeiron.co.uk)

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Amazon’s older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December (www.theverge.com)

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Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database (news.err.ee)

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FSF call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot (www.fsf.org)

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013) (slate.com)

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Rio Tinto blew up 46,000-year-old Aboriginal caves in Western Australia (2020) (www.bbc.com)

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Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen (arstechnica.com)

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We should build for wildlife as well as people (www.bbc.com)

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Google and Facebook Mandate Vaccines for Employees At U.S. Offices (www.npr.org)

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Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9B fund–new FCC boss starts “cleanup” (arstechnica.com)

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External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in General Availability (cloud.google.com)

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Harvey’s Casino Bomb (www.fbi.gov)

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Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring (aws.amazon.com)

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First detection of light from behind a black hole (news.stanford.edu)

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Invasive Ad Targeting Is Bad for Journalism and Other High-Quality Publishers (www.ethicalads.io)

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Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (ldpreload.com)

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'Arthur,' the Longest-Running Kids Animated Series in History, Is Ending (text.npr.org)

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Unleaded Avgas Approved (www.avweb.com)

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The Human Side of Elixir (akoutmos.com)

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Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture (www.theguardian.com)

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Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda (ez.substack.com)

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Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny (github.com)

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IPv6 Watch (ipv6.watch)

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NSA Mobile Device Best Practices (www.documentcloud.org)

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What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets (www.americastestkitchen.com)

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M4 macro processor (2020) (chrisman.github.io)

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M 8.2 Earthquake – 91 km ESE of Perryville, Alaska (earthquake.usgs.gov)

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Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32 (hackaday.com)

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Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life (www.binghamton.edu)

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Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots (klarasystems.com)

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Potoooooooo (en.wikipedia.org)

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How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf] (economics.yale.edu)

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Water transformed into shiny, golden metal (www.nature.com)

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Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank (www.medrxiv.org)

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What I Know About Cleaning and Seasoning Cast-Iron Skillets (www.americastestkitchen.com)

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Drum Synthesis in JavaScript (www.nickwritesablog.com)

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SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen,then turned up on YouTube (www.theregister.com)

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US home prices surge 17% in May, fastest in 17 years (abcnews.go.com)

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Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020 (www.eia.gov)

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Dusty Hill of ZZ Top Dead (en.wikipedia.org)

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Software Dark Ages (threedots.tech)

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Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans (www.latimes.com)

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Show HN: Nextless.js: Full-Stack React SaaS Boilerplate with Auth and Payment (https://nextlessjs.com)

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Show HN: Notes.cx – A simple, anonymous online notepad \w Markdown support (notes.cx)

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Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012) (yosefk.com)

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Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’ (www.aljazeera.com)

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How to split a string into an array in Bash? (2012) (stackoverflow.com)

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France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books (www.nytimes.com)

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Amiga at NASA (1999) (obligement.free.fr)

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In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (1984) (www.washingtonpost.com)

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14,000 scientists warn of “untold suffering” if we fail to act on climate change (www.mic.com)

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Diophantine Fruit (thehighergeometer.wordpress.com)

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Pfizer backs down over ‘unreasonable’ terms in South Africa vaccine deal (mg.co.za)

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The Thermocline of Truth (robm.me.uk)

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Clever carpentry helps bees fix wild honeycombs (www.sciencemag.org)

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The Script Boring Company Drivers Have to Recite About Musk (www.thedrive.com)

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On the Trail of a Mysterious, Pseudonymous Author (www.newyorker.com)

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Welcome to Whittier, Alaska, a Community Under One Roof (www.npr.org)

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Against Persuasion (bostonreview.net)

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Brave New LA: Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles (2013) (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Solving the Three Stooges Problem (reddit.com)

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Dean Preston is holding SF back (www.ebar.com)

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Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities (www.wired.com)

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Top Learnings from Someone Who Has Done 300+ Websites for Startups (twitter.com)

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Automated Configuration and Selection of SAT Solvers [pdf] (www.cs.ubc.ca)

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The C++ Type Loophole (C++14) (alexpolt.github.io)

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One Lost Methyl Group = Huge Amounts of Food Production (blogs.sciencemag.org)

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Steve Jobs was talking about the power of remote working back in 1990 (www.cultofmac.com)

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Build on Kubernetes from Day One (stackoverflow.blog)

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The Kiss of Death (madned.substack.com)

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Bursting the bubble: how gum lost its cool (www.economist.com)

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US States Banning Gaming PCs? Here's What's Going On (www.youtube.com)

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Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs (newrepublic.com)

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Launch HN: Legion Health (YC S21) – Smarter Staffing for Mental Health (item?id=27983197)

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Uber Has Reduced Drunk Driving Deaths by 6 Percent, Study Finds (reason.com)

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Scaling with common sense #2: Being future ready (zerodha.tech)

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Israeli government raids NSO Group offices (therecord.media)

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The minimum wage has lost 21% of its value since Congress last raised the wage ( (www.epi.org)

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Moving away from Google services, 8 years in (maximevaillancourt.com)

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Extensible Effects in the van Laarhoven Free Monad (aaronlevin.ca)

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Infectivity and immune escape of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest Lambda (www.medrxiv.org)

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Proof Assistant Makes Jump to Big-League Math (www.quantamagazine.org)

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All bets are off if the Fed and White House are wrong about inflation (www.cnn.com)

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The Divine Dante (aeon.co)

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The Twopenny Hangover (mikedashhistory.com)

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Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest of Work Conditions (www.vice.com)

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Google to require Covid vaccines for workers returning to office (www.ft.com)

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Tidal turbine in Orkney starts generating power (www.bbc.com)

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Apple staff quit because of the company's stance against remote working (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: Who else has a crummy developer career? (item?id=27981418)

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A Second Person in France May Have Caught Deadly Prion Disease from Lab Exposure (www.gizmodo.com.au)

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Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Apple Tells Leaker to Snitch on Sources or It Will Report Them to the Police (www.vice.com)

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Arthur' Canceled at PBS After 25 Seasons (variety.com)

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Show HN: We kept making an alternative platform for professional profiles (read.cv)

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Google will require employees to be vaccinated before returning to offices (www.theverge.com)

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States cutting unemployment benefits didn’t get people back to work, study finds (www.cnbc.com)

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TSMC 2nm chip plans announced (9to5mac.com)

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Pingdemic: Bar staff being told to delete NHS Covid-19 app (www.bbc.com)

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Dimensionality reduction in neural data analysis (xcorr.net)

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How the coronavirus infects cells – and why Delta is so dangerous (www.nature.com)

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Ode to the Ice Man (www.messynessychic.com)

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Is Authorize.net Down? (item?id=27988403)

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Facebook requiring U.S. employees to be vaccinated to return to work (www.cnbc.com)

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Pfizer vaccine effectiveness drops to 84 percent after six months: data (thehill.com)

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NYC Brain Computer Startup Announces FDA Trial Before Elon Musk (www.bloombergquint.com)

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Coronavirus lockdowns have worsened hunger around the world (www.independent.co.uk)

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The Rails Doctrine (2016) (rubyonrails.org)

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Greywing launches Crew Change to help shipping companies with Covid regulations (techcrunch.com)

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Stack Overflow not reachable via IPv6 (meta.stackoverflow.com)

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Dead, shrivelled frogs are unexpectedly turning up across eastern Australia (www.abc.net.au)

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I created a crypto price alert app. Apple rejected it for nonsense (item?id=27992818)

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Spiritual Bypassing (www.robertmasters.com)

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Blue Origin has a secret project named “Jarvis” to compete with SpaceX (arstechnica.com)

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A Deeper Look at Critical Race Theory (www.wsj.com)

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A third of middle-aged UK adults have at least two chronic health issues – study (www.theguardian.com)

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Study on Time Restricted Eating (TRE), a form of intermittent fasting (2020) (twitter.com)

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A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites (www.wired.com)

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Want to reduce cockroach sex? Block an enzyme (phys.org)

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A nationwide wave of evictions threatens more than six million families (www.nytimes.com)

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Beyond Human Endurance (www.washingtonpost.com)

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New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse (www.theguardian.com)

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How Long Can Taiwan’s PCB Industry Hold Against China? (techtaiwan.com)

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Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down (www.reddit.com)

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JavaScript timers can be bypassed with “Infinity” (www.youtube.com)

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The Amazonian Evil Infecting AWS (www.lastweekinaws.com)

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Secret 'Jurassic Pompeii' Yields Thousand of 167M Years Old Fossils (www.bbc.com)

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First detection of light from behind a black hole (phys.org)

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Optical Computing (en.wikipedia.org)

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What You Think, What I Think (2020) (www.chicagomaroon.com)

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There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to Be a Citizen to Vote (www.nytimes.com)

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Ozoz Sokoh, Culinary Historian Creating Digital Archive of W African Food (www.thekitchn.com)

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Lightmatter’s photonic AI ambitions light up an $80M B round (techcrunch.com)

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Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for natural language search engine ‘superapp’ (techcrunch.com)

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Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab (www.theregister.com)

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Show HN: Bookmarklet for Previewing References in PDFs (github.com)

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InnaMed (YC W17) Is Hiring a React Native Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)

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Dendron (YC W21) is hiring a Head of Growth to help devs organize their notes (wiki.dendron.so)

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Journey (YC W21) is hiring a front-end centric founding engineer (jny.journey.io)

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Bloom is hiring a Software Engineer to build the future of human connection (item?id=27991593)

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