hackerNews

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Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord (kotaku.com)

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Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it (www.inputmag.com)

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Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE (www.justice.gov)

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Show HN: Time Travel Debugger (www.replay.io)

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Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater (www.cbc.ca)

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Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010) (twitter.com)

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How much faster is Java 17? (www.optaplanner.org)

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Every engineer should do a stint in consulting (cloudirregular.substack.com)

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3

The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot (www.openculture.com)

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14

GM tells Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars (www.autonews.com)

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13

Why Authorization Is Hard (www.osohq.com)

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Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim (arstechnica.com)

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Facebook under fire over secret teen research (www.bbc.co.uk)

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14

EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web (httptoolkit.tech)

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Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal (gizmodo.com)

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Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic? (www.economist.com)

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Donate to the Internet Archive (archive.org)

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Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings (www.techdirt.com)

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18

Michelin's Airless Tires Hit the Streets for the First Time (interestingengineering.com)

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Live: SpaceX to launch four civilians to orbit in mission known as Inspiration4 (www.youtube.com)

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10

Useful Spy Books (berthub.eu)

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Facebook tried to make its platform a healthier place, but it got angrier (www.wsj.com)

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3

A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through High Dimension (www.quantamagazine.org)

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6

Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification (geneva.cs.umd.edu)

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2

Ledger of Harms (ledger.humanetech.com)

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'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss (www.rfi.fr)

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8

Nikon's 2021 Photomicrography Competition Winners (www.nikonsmallworld.com)

162 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091703 32 comments

9

FreeBSD SSH Hardening (gist.github.com)

156 points first seen 2021091600 last seen 2021091621 108 comments

3

A Tour of the Oil Language (www.oilshell.org)

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What's Wrong with Tech Hiring (neverworkintheory.org)

150 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091718 359 comments

4

Futarchy: Robin Hanson on How Prediction Markets Can Take over the World (richardhanania.substack.com)

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5

Ship code when it is ready and valuable (2020) (iism.org)

148 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091721 74 comments

12

Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing (issuetracker.google.com)

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Show HN: Paper to HTML Converter (https://papertohtml.org)

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21

Where is the scrutiny over FDA’s role in the overdose epidemic? (www.inquirer.com)

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Psychologists Are Learning What Religion Has Known for Years (www.wired.com)

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OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs with insider information (www.theverge.com)

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Crypto Fund Manager/Scammer Sentenced to 7yrs (www.justice.gov)

124 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091621 94 comments

12

Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics (www.scientificamerican.com)

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14

A Closer Look: How I Created a 248MP Photo of the Sun (petapixel.com)

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Why satellites are manufactured in clean rooms (www.ohb.de)

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10

Automatic cipher suite ordering in Go’s crypto/tls (go.dev)

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14

Using the FreeBSD Rack TCP Stack (klarasystems.com)

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H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system (h3geo.org)

117 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091621 62 comments

23

Golang: How to Update APIs for Generics (github.com)

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Losing Covid-19 antibody immunity after six months after Pfizer vaccine (thedaily.case.edu)

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30

PostgreSQL 15: default permissions for everyone is now restricted to db owner (www.depesz.com)

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13

Seq – A programming language for computational genomics and bioinformatics (github.com)

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11

MVT over MVP: Use this process to evaluate startup ideas before building (review.firstround.com)

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North Korean missiles land in Japan EEZ as nuclear threat grows (www.japantimes.co.jp)

106 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091609 127 comments

12

Show HN: Display a bell emoji on HN comments you haven't read yet (gist.github.com)

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Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England (www.ons.gov.uk)

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One Stuck Box of Fertilizer Shows the Global Supply Chain Crisis (www.bloomberg.com)

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Wyng-backup: Fast Time Machine-like backups for logical volumes (github.com)

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37

What's cooking on Sourcehut? September 2021 (sourcehut.org)

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73

Will Xi Move on Taiwan? (asia.nikkei.com)

76 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091612 88 comments

37

The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode (erights.medium.com)

75 points first seen 2021091621 last seen 2021091712 96 comments

18

The Sega Master System: Third Mark's the Charm (nicole.express)

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Tesla FSD Beta 10 veers into pedestrians with illegal right turn (twitter.com)

72 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091621 108 comments

17

How to Escape Loneliness (whatsonyourmind.substack.com)

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India’s caste system remains entrenched, 75 years after independence (www.economist.com)

69 points first seen 2021091621 last seen 2021091706 58 comments

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Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita (twitter.com)

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Jupiter’s energy crisis solved: Auroras roast upper atmosphere (earthsky.org)

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Faroe Islands: Anger over killing of 1,400 dolphins in one day (www.bbc.com)

65 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091603 35 comments

21

COBOL- still standing the test of time (blog.microfocus.com)

62 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091618 89 comments

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Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of poetry and song (www.joh.cam.ac.uk)

60 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091618 27 comments

38

Competition Is For Losers (www.lrb.co.uk)

60 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021091700 37 comments

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Officer Down Memorial Page (Line of Duty Deaths Stats by Year) (www.odmp.org)

60 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021101709 27 comments

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Linux Sucks 2021 – The End of Linux Is Nigh [video] (lunduke.locals.com)

54 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091621 167 comments

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Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley,Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free (www.bloomberg.com)

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20

A practical guide to radial basis functions [pdf] (num.math.uni-goettingen.de)

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Plant-based meat company vandalizes the bacon Wikipedia article (boingboing.net)

52 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091609 22 comments

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New Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Algae-Based Way to Fight Water Pollution (shooliniuniversity.com)

52 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091706 13 comments

21

Provenance: iOS and tvOS multi-emulator front end (github.com)

51 points first seen 2021091621 last seen 2021091709 29 comments

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Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here's What's at Stake (www.npr.org)

50 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091606 60 comments

27

Show HN: NFC Passport/ID for remote user registration (https://passportreader.app)

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Australia, the US and UK to announce landmark new defence pact (www.smh.com.au)

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0

Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working? (journal.media)

43 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091603 108 comments

30

Exploring 120 Years of Timezones (blog.scottlogic.com)

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California May Be the First State to Legislate Amazon Warehouse Conditions (themarkup.org)

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Australia to acquire nuclear submarine fleet (AUKUS) (www.abc.net.au)

42 points first seen 2021091621 last seen 2021091815 106 comments

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Duolingo: The Antithesis to the Bazaar (nibnalin.me)

40 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021091703 23 comments

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Is your manager a router or a moderator? (github.com)

39 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091700 6 comments

21

Drum Juggling (thekidshouldseethis.com)

38 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021091703 20 comments

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Amazon reaches agreement with trade unions in Italy (www.reuters.com)

38 points first seen 2021091621 last seen 2021091700 46 comments

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When Vimeo realizes your channel is using too much bandwidth (www.youtube.com)

35 points first seen 2021091615 last seen 2021091621 8 comments

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Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik (arstechnica.com)

34 points first seen 2021091615 last seen 2021091621 14 comments

45

Mega-update for Expressive Animator, the open-source vector animation app (www.expressivesuite.com)

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41

Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKs (plaid.com)

31 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091709 19 comments

45

Oracle Free Java License (blogs.oracle.com)

29 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091612 8 comments

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Inspiration4 Livestream, live now [video] (www.youtube.com)

29 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091612 4 comments

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Norm MacDonald’s SNL monologue when he was asked to host after being fired (www.youtube.com)

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70

Flying on Mars Is Getting Harder and Harder (mars.nasa.gov)

28 points first seen 2021091615 last seen 2021091618 0 comments

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Pine64 September Update: Hurdles and Successes (www.pine64.org)

27 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091609 4 comments

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Optimizing Images on the Web (blog.cloudflare.com)

26 points first seen 2021091600 last seen 2021091606 3 comments

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How to run commands and scripts on Efficiency cores (eclecticlight.co)

26 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091703 5 comments

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The WOPRS Organization Model (jpreston.xyz)

26 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091721 9 comments

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Fauci-Email (github.com)

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Succinct Dynamic Data Structures (2001) [pdf] (www.imsc.res.in)

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Jupiter got smacked by a space rock; an amateur astronomer caught it on camera (www.space.com)

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ExpressVPN Knew 'Key Facts' of Executive Who Worked for UAE Spy Unit (www.vice.com)

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SpaceX Live Updates: The Inspiration4 Crew Embarks on a 3-Day Mission to Orbit (www.nytimes.com)

23 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021091615 22 comments

53

Copy-and-Patch: Fast JIT Compilation for SQL, WebAssembly, and Others (arxiv.org)

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82

Ransomware encrypts South Africa's entire Dept of Justice network (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

22 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091612 2 comments

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Considerations in boosting Covid-19 vaccine immune responses (www.thelancet.com)

21 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091609 39 comments

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Contempt Culture (2015) (blog.aurynn.com)

21 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021091615 39 comments

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“Melting face,” “pregnant person,” and 35 other emoji approved for Unicode 14.0 (arstechnica.com)

16 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091609 30 comments

54

Chrome user agent string reduction (blog.chromium.org)

15 points first seen 2021091612 last seen 2021091621 2 comments

39

Assam’s Unique Mobile Drama Tradition Takes the Stage in a Changing World (www.atlasobscura.com)

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44

Driving payment card adoption with deeplinks, applinks, long cards, and autofill (kunle.app)

13 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091612 4 comments

63

FreeBSD Now Allows Hugs (lunduke.com)

13 points first seen 2021091621 last seen 2021091700 4 comments

89

Ask HN: Secure/Private Phone Network? (item?id=28540929)

12 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091609 9 comments

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YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation (www.stltoday.com)

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Trick I learned from Nassim Taleb to get better at chess and chess variants fast (speedtestdemon.com)

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The era of orbital private spaceflight truly begins with today’s launch (arstechnica.com)

11 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091612 0 comments

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Shedding of Infectious Delta Variant SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination (www.medrxiv.org)

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Show HN: Share Your CV as a Timeline (puu.world)

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0

Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire (2018) (daily.jstor.org)

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Biden Takes Rare Step to Share Nuclear Submarine Technology with Australia (www.npr.org)

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GDB 11.1 Released (sourceware.org)

9 points first seen 2021091618 last seen 2021091621 0 comments

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Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era (www.bbc.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2021091603 last seen 2021091603 0 comments

0

How can I take down a Chrome extension that is malicous (item?id=28541447)

8 points first seen 2021091606 last seen 2021091606 11 comments

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Automatic Image Background Removal Tool (www.cutout.pro)

8 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091612 0 comments

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Dubious of Trump's sanity, top U.S. general called China, book claims (www.japantimes.co.jp)

8 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091609 0 comments

0

Kasparov Tweet on Propaganda (2016) (twitter.com)

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0

Wikipedia Bans 7 Chinese Users Amid Concerns of 'Infiltration, Physical Harm' (www.theregister.com)

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Recent Ebola outbreak emerged from someone infected 5 years earlier (arstechnica.com)

7 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091609 0 comments

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Omigod: Critical Vulnerabilities in OMI Affecting Countless Azure Customers (www.wiz.io)

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0

One Giant Leap for Tortoise-Kind (www.historytoday.com)

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0

Show HN: Scriggo – a Go open-source template engine and embeddable interpreter (github.com)

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A Senegal-born factory worker is Europe’s first TikTok megastar (qz.com)

6 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091609 0 comments

0

Inspiration4 Mission (inspiration4.com)

6 points first seen 2021091609 last seen 2021091609 0 comments

0

First full civillian crew space launch in history live stream (www.youtube.com)

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0

Europe’s Climate Lesson for America. As wind power flags, energy prices soar (www.wsj.com)

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Texas hospital faces closure due to vaccine mandate, CEO says (www.beckershospitalreview.com)

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'Unhackable' phones given to prisoners by Scottish Gov were hacked to buy drugs (www.itv.com)

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Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE (www.bbc.com)

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A History of Library Hand (bookriot.com)

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0

German Experiment Shows Horses Beating Local Internet Connections (hackaday.com)

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0

Anonymous hacks and leaks data from domain registrar Epik (therecord.media)

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Car manufacturers out of touch with how users use “infotainment” (www.thedrive.com)

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Millennials accuse Baby Boomers of ruining the economy (humans.media)

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0

Offset Tracking with RabbitMQ Streams (blog.rabbitmq.com)

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What We’ve Learned After 6 Years of IO Scheduling (www.p99conf.io)

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SpaceX prepares to launch four civilians and a glass dome into space (www.theregister.com)

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The Cupola window for Dragon. Will be the biggest window in space (twitter.com)

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The UK startup saving classic cars from landfill by converting them to electric (www.euronews.com)

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Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces (www.technologyreview.com)

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$10 Raspberry Pi Pico Alternative Comes with LCD Screen (www.tomshardware.com)

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Physicists make square droplets and liquid lattices (phys.org)

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“But I can just look at a JPEG online.” (pizzaparty.substack.com)

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Embrio-real-time, agent based programming for Arduino (embrio.io)

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DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich (www.theregister.com)

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Home Assistant Amber (www.crowdsupply.com)

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Substack (YC W18) Is Hiring Engineering Managers to Build the Future of Writing (substack.com)

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DeepSource (YC W20) Is Looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead (Bangalore) (careers.deepsource.io)

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