hackerNews

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Who Owns My Name? (amandamarieknox.medium.com)

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Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file (static.wiki)

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Atkinson Hyperlegible – a font by the Braille Institute designed for legibility (brailleinstitute.org)

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1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee (www.businessinsider.com)

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Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (phiresky.netlify.app)

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New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN (phys.org)

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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs (alinpanaitiu.com)

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Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations (www.bloomberg.com)

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Whistleblower Craig Murray Will Surrender Himself for Prison (thedissenter.org)

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Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment (cosmosmagazine.com)

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Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents (thedissenter.org)

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B-tree Path Hints (github.com)

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Research found bronze medalists appeared happier than silver medalists (twin-cities.umn.edu)

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Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby (sorbet.org)

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Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details (item?id=28012969)

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Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup. How should I get prepared? (item?id=28008571)

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How I store my files (www.unixsheikh.com)

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Thai PM Orders Internet Block for Anyone Spreading Info That May Frighten People (chiangmaione.com)

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Safari extension rejected because developer not “reputable” (twitter.com)

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The Dark and Destructive Downsides of Entrepreneurship (journals.aom.org)

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Safari Extension Rejected Because Developer Not “Reputable” (mjtsai.com)

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“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not (twitter.com)

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Oracle loses bid to upend HP's $3B win – Itanium CPU (www.reuters.com)

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Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe (www.bbc.com)

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Yarn 3.0.0 (github.com)

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strcpy: A niche function you don't need (nullprogram.com)

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I Am Parting with My Crypto Library (www.schneier.com)

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Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch Covid. None of them helped (www.technologyreview.com)

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A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid (www.nature.com)

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Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly (lunatic.solutions)

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Has the Lead-Crime Hypothesis Been Debunked? (jabberwocking.com)

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Common UI/UX mistakes devs make (twitter.com)

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Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits (www.vice.com)

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Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge (blog.twitter.com)

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Rust Audio Development Forum (rust-audio.discourse.group)

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Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics for infectious diesases (item?id=28009972)

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What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose (www.nytimes.com)

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The Future of PrivacyTools (blog.privacytools.io)

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How Beavis, Butt-Head and Daria disrupted cable (www.npr.org)

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We migrated to containers. Not a smooth ride yet (www.artifakt.com)

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Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in (www.jeffgeerling.com)

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Investors overseeing $14T call for vote on company climate plans (www.reuters.com)

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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (www.quantamagazine.org)

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300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire (www.drive.com.au)

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London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Mapbox Employees Have Unionized (www.protocol.com)

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Goodbye Xamarin Forms (itnext.io)

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Fencers Refused to Fight. Then Came the Rule That Changed the Sport (www.wsj.com)

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Fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution (www.pnas.org)

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Pedestrian fatalities are rising in the US (www.nybooks.com)

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Yi – The Haskell-Scriptable Editor (github.com)

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Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel (lwn.net)

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Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing (arturgruchala.com)

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Launch HN: HomeBreeze (YC W21) – Easy booking of home repairs (item?id=28008172)

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Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer (www.newscientist.com)

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Italian Pronunciation: A Primer for Singers (web.stanford.edu)

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DNS Privacy Considerations (www.rfc-editor.org)

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Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning (news.cornell.edu)

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Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’ (www.theverge.com)

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A Nerd Cool Miscellanea (paperstack.com)

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Cash Flood Drives Use of Fed Reverse Repo to Record $1T (www.bloomberg.com)

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Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees return to NYC (www.foxbusiness.com)

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Mirror image DNA polymerase has been engineered (twitter.com)

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Representations of Uncomputable and Uncountable Sets (2008) (math.andrej.com)

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Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Message Deduplication with RabbitMQ Streams (blog.rabbitmq.com)

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Australian Troops Will Help Enforce a Coronavirus Lockdown in Sydney, July 30 (www.npr.org)

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Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook (fly.io)

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In-Browser OCR (ian-nai.github.io)

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Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages? (item?id=28008606)

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Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (www.gingerybookstore.com)

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Information Geometry (math.ucr.edu)

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Benchmarking Your Ruby with time_up (blog.testdouble.com)

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Interview with Noam Chomsky: Capitalism and Free Speech (www.youtube.com)

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Private student loans can now be discharged in bankruptcy (www.foxbusiness.com)

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German Court: Facebook Must Inform Users About Deleting Their Posts, Explain Why (www.techdirt.com)

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Get Ready for the 'No-Buy' List (bariweiss.substack.com)

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Tesla Megapack Caught Fire at Victorian Big Battery Site in Australia (www.cnbc.com)

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900-person delta cluster in Mass. has CDC freaked out–74% are vaccinated (arstechnica.com)

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After Neurodiversity (aeon.co)

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Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future (www.theatlantic.com)

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Warrior Eros (theamericanscholar.org)

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Killing the Sat Means Hurting Minorities (andrewsullivan.substack.com)

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SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern (science.sciencemag.org)

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A Self-Verifying Theorem Prover (2009) [pdf] (kookamara.com)

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Current Stimulation of the Midbrain Nucleus in Pigeons for Avian Flight Control (www.mdpi.com)

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CDC: Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections in Massachusetts (www.cdc.gov)

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“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 keywords” (twitter.com)

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Paserk: Platform Agnostic SERialized Keys (github.com)

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Memory Management in Lobster (aardappel.github.io)

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Taibbi's Meet The Censored: Hitler (taibbi.substack.com)

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U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T (leaderpost.com)

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This Week in KDE: Better HiDPI on X11 (pointieststick.com)

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Software downloaded 30k times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines (arstechnica.com)

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Virtual contact worse than no contact for over-60s in lockdown, says study (www.theguardian.com)

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Los Angeles Covid Surge Being Driven by White, Affluent Neighborhoods (deadline.com)

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“Apple App Store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right.” (www.theverge.com)

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Texas Instruments’ new calculator incorporates Python programming language (www.dallasnews.com)

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Paige Compositor (en.wikipedia.org)

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Nobelists decry Chinese government’s censorship attempts at the Nobel Summit (www.sciencemag.org)

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Why Tesla’s ‘Beta Testing’ Puts the Public at Risk (www.nytimes.com)

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Playdate pre-sells 20K devices in 17 minutes (twitter.com)

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Google to block logins on old Android devices starting September (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Today Is System Administrator Appreciation Day (sysadminday.com)

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Freenode Is Dead. (Again.) (netsplit.de)

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10 years later and unresolved – Allow custom domains for Atlassian Cloud apps (jira.atlassian.com)

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The Pentagon Is Experimenting with Using AI to “See Days in Advance” (www.thedrive.com)

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Covid clusters among the vaccinated are killing our back-to-normal dreams (www.technologyreview.com)

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Keep Your Data Raw at Rest (qvault.io)

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Apollo 11 ascent stage may still be orbiting the moon (phys.org)

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Abel Wang Is Dead (twitter.com)

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Statement on Blue Origin-Dynetics decision (www.gao.gov)

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Probably the best file naming convention ever (2014) (www2.staffingindustry.com)

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How Much Will It Cost to Prevent Deaths by Climate-Driven Heat? (www.wired.com)

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The British shipwreck that changed the world (www.bbc.com)

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ProtonVPN gets serious speed boost with VPN Accelerator (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Is there merit to Leetcode without courses? (item?id=28009445)

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China Can Lock Up a Million Muslims in Xinjiang at Once (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Infrastructure Deal Puts Cryptocurrencies in Washington’s Cross Hairs (www.nytimes.com)

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Simple word test reveals how creative you are, scientists say (edition.cnn.com)

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Blizzard Recruiters Asked Hacker If She ‘Liked Being Penetrated’ at Job Fair (www.vice.com)

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Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Keeps on Losing in Court (www.techdirt.com)

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Python has become 50% more popular than R for Data Science (i.imgur.com)

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The amount of Greenland ice that melted on Tuesday could cover FL in 2” of water (www.cnn.com)

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Israel's war on ('anti-Semitic') ice cream (www.aljazeera.com)

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A Resistant SARS-CoV-2 Variant Could Emerge Any Time (www.sciencealert.com)

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The female mathematician who changed the course of physics (2015) (arstechnica.com)

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Preliminary Plan for Las Vegas Cannabis Lounges Include Dining and Entertainment (lasvegassun.com)

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Remora (YC W21) is hiring a mechanic – carbon capture for semi trucks (www.ycombinator.com)

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CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring Staff Back End Engineers (Ruby/Rails and Remote USA) (grnh.se)

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SoloSuit (YC W21) is hiring a remote senior engineer (www.solosuit.com)

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