hackerNews

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New in Git: Switch and Restore (www.banterly.net)

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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com)

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Cory Doctorow: Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) (locusmag.com)

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We Still Don’t Get Things Done (www.wired.com)

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Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years (www.pcgamer.com)

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Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 (data.firefox.com)

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Cy384/ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9 (github.com)

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The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure (www.reuters.com)

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Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) (www.bbc.com)

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Six corporations control 90% of America media (techstartups.com)

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Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend (github.com)

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Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX (arstechnica.com)

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Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases (www.amazon.com)

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FBI probe shows nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of shipment (www.reuters.com)

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Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly? (item?id=28017289)

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Where has all the productivity gone? (www.johndcook.com)

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Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C (twitter.com)

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I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Don't Become an Enterprise/IT Architect–Strategist (ea.rna.nl)

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As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession” (www.economist.com)

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ASCII Play (play.ertdfgcvb.xyz)

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Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011) (gingerybookstore.com)

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Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story (eji.org)

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The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles (lithub.com)

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TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and infrastucture (github.com)

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The Retrocomputing Archive (www.retroarchive.org)

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Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009) (restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com)

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Air – Live reload when developing with Go (github.com)

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Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016) (www.esquire.com)

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FBI Seized $900K from Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says (reason.com)

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Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism (www.jonathan-cook.net)

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FBI and Detroit police groomed 14 year old informant for years before conviction (www.cnn.com)

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Recursion in SQL Explained Visually (2020) (denis-lukichev.medium.com)

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The future of deep learning is photonic (spectrum.ieee.org)

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I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart (brettscott.substack.com)

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Department of Justice Statement on SolarWinds Update (www.justice.gov)

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Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv (github.com)

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Comma Three Devkit (comma.ai)

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The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea (www.vice.com)

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Clusterboard A64 Insidious Reset Problem: Solved (ericdraken.com)

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Typos, tricks and misprints (aeon.co)

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Creating a DOOM-inspired aesthetic with PlayCanvas (omarshehata.me)

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How hard is it to get counting right? (desystemize.substack.com)

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Sky News Australia has been suspended from YouTube after a review of old videos (www.skynews.com.au)

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Turkey has unveiled a stealth carrier-based unmanned aircraft program (eurasiantimes.com)

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One-Thousand Year-Old Plants (www.nytimes.com)

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High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful (www.theguardian.com)

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Algorithmic Complexity of Left-Pad (accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com)

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Reprogrammable Satellite Launched (www.esa.int)

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Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to 'respect Chinese gov't' (hongkongfp.com)

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Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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After YouTube-dl incident, GitHub's DMCA process now includes free legal help (developers.slashdot.org)

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Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor (arxiv.org)

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Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence (news.usni.org)

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Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Solopreneurs, what is your day and week like? (item?id=28016774)

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Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall (www.theregister.com)

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Show HN: PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed (paperdelivery.co)

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The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain (2009) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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Organopónicos (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Jobs in Software/Technology Activism? (item?id=28018203)

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Who Will Pay to Protect Tech Giants from Rising Seas? (apps.npr.org)

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American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates (www.webmd.com)

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Show HN: Viewfinder – Virtualized browsers for your web app (github.com)

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Water management innovation is central to the future of ICs (www.eetimes.com)

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How to become a bad theoretical physicist (2017) (webspace.science.uu.nl)

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Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf] (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

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Osama bin Laden was found because his family hung their clothes out to dry (nypost.com)

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TikTok and the Future of Social Media (atthis.link)

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An Elastic Model of the Holding Power of Rock Climbing Anchors (web.mit.edu)

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The Future of Work at Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)

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A Brief History of Freud's Love Affair with Cocaine (www.vice.com)

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Tenants prepare for unknown as eviction moratorium ends (www.msn.com)

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Ask HN: Tinder is full of fake profiles, posted by Tinder. How to prove? (item?id=28017336)

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Couple harassed by eBay execs tell their story for the first time (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Male fertility declining – studies show environmental toxins could be a reason (theconversation.com)

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Amazon Denied a Worker Pregnancy Accommodations (www.vice.com)

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What if JavaScript had a synchronous async flavor? (guido.io)

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Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions, new study confirms (arstechnica.com)

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With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware (arstechnica.com)

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William S. Burroughs in New York (cromwell-intl.com)

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Plandemic: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the Covid-19 Infodemic (www.frontiersin.org)

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Covid: Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin, experts say (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Berlin court bans anti-lockdown protests (www.dw.com)

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Nanobodies from camelid mice and llamas neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants (www.nature.com)

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Moving a Team from Scala to Golang (2015) (jimplush.com)

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Minecraft’s 'Worst' Server Was Exploited So Hard, Griefers Could See the Future (kotaku.com)

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‘The war has changed’: CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta more severe (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Delirious Cult of Recreational Benadryl Users (melmagazine.com)

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Kansas aircraft companies fined for using illegal software (apnews.com)

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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison (2020) (www.butwhatfor.com)

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CDC says 74% of people infected in MA COVID-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated (www.cnbc.com)

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House adjourns for recess without passing bill to extend federal eviction ban (thehill.com)

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Ask HN: What are some of the best non-technical talks of all time? (item?id=28021268)

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Interactive CSS Grid Builder – Layoutit Grid (grid.layoutit.com)

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Ask HN: If you live in a stripe unsupported country – how do you accept payments (item?id=28017816)

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Can Fake Accounts Save the Internet? (www.nytimes.com)

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What psychology says about Covid non-compliers (www.sydney.edu.au)

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Plexiglass Is Everywhere, with No Proof It Keeps Covid at Bay (www.bloomberg.com)

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To Slightly Reduce How Much the Internet Sucks, Use Positive Reinforcement (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Deaths of world-leading microbiologists under the microscope (2002) (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Why women in tech are so angry all the time (mashable.com)

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What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution (nautil.us)

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Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted? They’re Back (www.nytimes.com)

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Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new Covid cases (apnews.com)

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The Centris 650 (www.cy384.com)

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Google's 'time crystals' could be one of the greatest scientific achievements (thenextweb.com)

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H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here–what have we learned since? (arstechnica.com)

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19-year-old earns $54k a year mining Bitcoin as a full-time job (www.cnbc.com)

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Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world (2013) [video] (www.ted.com)

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Fauci wants to make vaccines for the next pandemic before it hits (www.nytimes.com)

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Collatz Conjecture (en.wikipedia.org)

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Glue Code Is the Success Condition (blog.metaobject.com)

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The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper (theintercept.com)

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Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers and CSM (jobs.lever.co)

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Compose.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)

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Zendar (YC S17) is hiring a platform software engineer (jobs.ashbyhq.com)

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