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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset (arstechnica.com)

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An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? (item?id=28957573)

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Police Can’t Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode Then Tell a Jury You Refused (www.eff.org)

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Leaving Google (jayconrod.com)

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Google sought fellow tech giants' help in stalling kids' privacy protections (www.politico.com)

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Hackernews.com (hackernews.com)

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Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis (twitter.com)

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Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge (www.theguardian.com)

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NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised (old.reddit.com)

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Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter (pages.erau.edu)

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Facebook chooses profits over people (peoplesworld.org)

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Adopting Erlang (https://adoptingerlang.org)

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A Rust optimization story (quickwit.io)

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (www.filfre.net)

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Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack (lisp-journey.gitlab.io)

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Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks (www.wsj.com)

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Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon (sfconservancy.org)

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Federal Judges or Their Brokers Traded Stocks of Litigants During Cases (www.wsj.com)

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Chilling Effects (astralcodexten.substack.com)

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The Hidden Costs of Living Alone (www.theatlantic.com)

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What do people want in a co-founder? (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second (arxiv.org)

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FOSDEM 2022 will be online (fosdem.org)

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Fake shutters make me angry (thecraftsmanblog.com)

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Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux (www.lpi.org)

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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1986) [pdf] (www.eecg.utoronto.ca)

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Science of Slow Cooking (www.scienceofcooking.com)

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Paintmakers Are Running Out of the Color Blue (www.bloombergquint.com)

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Bid to unionize Amazon workers in New York nears milestone (apnews.com)

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Intel Betting the Farm (semianalysis.com)

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Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data (www.reuters.com)

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Vinyl records are now outselling CDs (twitter.com)

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The Age of Machine Learning as Code Has Arrived (huggingface.co)

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Not Belonging to the World: Hannah Arendt Holds Firm (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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GPT Code Clippy, the Open Source Version of GitHub Copilot (github.com)

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YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku (www.cnbc.com)

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European Parliament: UK and US are global hubs for money laundering, tax evasion (www.brusselstimes.com)

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Triumph at Saturn [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally? (item?id=28955562)

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A different and often better way to downsample your Prometheus metrics (blog.timescale.com)

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Satellite IoT dreams are crashing into reality (staceyoniot.com)

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IBM PS/2 Keyboard Modification (ardent-tool.com)

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The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars (pluralistic.net)

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Audio Tape Interface Revives Microcassettes as Storage Medium (hackaday.com)

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Fastmail is having problems again (www.fastmailstatus.com)

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The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes (www.cpushack.com)

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Show HN: Semgrep App (item?id=28959174)

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Predicting stock market returns from news photos (www.rmit.edu.au)

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Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group (www.theverge.com)

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Wall of Sound (en.wikipedia.org)

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When People Carved Turnips Instead of Pumpkins for Halloween (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars (pluralistic.net)

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It's not your imagination – Microsoft's sofware has gone downhill (arstechnica.com)

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Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed but underrated among informed (vitalik.ca)

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How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016) (www.theatlantic.com)

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Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers (lemire.me)

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Glimmer DSL for LibUI – Simplest Native Cross-Platform GUI Library (github.com)

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The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256 (www.graphcore.ai)

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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan (www.vanityfair.com)

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TCL: The Tool Command Language – Lisp for the Masses [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Why Network Engineers Should Learn Go (darrenparkinson.uk)

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What Makes Stuff Rot? (www.overcomingbias.com)

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What We Lose When We Lose Thomas Jefferson – By Samuel Goldman (bariweiss.substack.com)

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Convert macros to functions in the Python C API (www.python.org)

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Theorem demonstrates that CNNs can always be trained on quantum computers (discover.lanl.gov)

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EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board (www.eff.org)

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New Kubernetes high–severity vulnerability alert (www.armosec.io)

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Tailscale Now Runs in the Browser (twitter.com)

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Email allegedly shows that Google did ask Roku for special search treatment (9to5google.com)

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Truth as Transcendental: Ontological Foundations (soundcloud.com)

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Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous (www.wsj.com)

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Our Content Removal Transparency Report for January to June 2021 (blog.google)

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Adobe will put U.S. employees on unpaid leave if they're not vaccinated by Dec 8 (www.cnbc.com)

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UK Supermarkets using cardboard cutouts to hide gaps left by supply issues (www.theguardian.com)

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The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (blogs.loc.gov)

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Why Racket? Why Lisp? (practicaltypography.com)

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Ask HN: How to preserve privacy while using smartphones? (item?id=28963147)

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It's been nearly 20 years since inflation has been this high in Canada (www.cbc.ca)

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What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users (www.nbcnews.com)

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NYC schools will replace the gifted admissions exam with a lottery this year (www.nytimes.com)

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The Ultimate Student: Best Practices for 100 Mental Models (app.telepathylab.com)

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What's more important, being passionate or being curious? (tinkeredthinking.com)

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Using Machine Learning to Guess Pins from Video (www.schneier.com)

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CISA warns of GPS bug that may roll back dates by 1,024 weeks, to March 2002 (therecord.media)

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Why everything takes longer than you think (Mayfer's Law) (tinkeredthinking.com)

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7 Handy tricks for using the Linux wget command (opensource.com)

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U.S. Issued $100B in Export Licenses to Suppliers of Huawei, SMIC (www.wsj.com)

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'Mysterious gang' saves dogs trapped by eruption before drone attempt (www.theguardian.com)

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Vizio in Hot Water over Smart TV GPL Violations (hackaday.com)

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Microsoft Academic – Alternative to Google Scholar (academic.microsoft.com)

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Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled (www.theregister.com)

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Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Koyaanisqatsi flowing through the eye of an n-dimensional being (vimeo.com)

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Introduction to the China Social Credit System [Punishments and Rewards] in 2021 (nhglobalpartners.com)

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Eaton 5P 1U Lithium Ion Rack Battery Unit Review (www.servethehome.com)

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Deepfaking Genitalia into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan (www.gizmodo.com.au)

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Julian Schnabel – Self Portraits of Others (www.brantfoundation.org)

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Poaching drove the evolution of tusk-free elephants (arstechnica.com)

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ADRV9009 radio product development platform (2020) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Web component – Keyboard shortcuts interface for websites (github.com)

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Show HN: I created a tool to schedule HTTP requests (item?id=28960156)

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The Art of Deception, Lighthouse score edition (www.zachleat.com)

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Another former Facebook employee has filed a whistleblower complaint (www.engadget.com)

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Trump's Truth Social Hacked Within Hours of Announcement (www.newsweek.com)

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Effective Altruism in a Nutshell (80000hours.org)

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics (www.bloomberg.com)

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Debloat Windows 11 (github.com)

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A lack of fish faeces is changing the flow of carbon in the ocean (www.newscientist.com)

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The Ghost of Silverlight, or “Lessons Learned from Dying Frameworks” (medium.com)

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Compromised NPM packages of ua-parser-JS (0.7.29, 0.8.0, 1.0.0) (github.com)

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Epic Games Ends Alternate-Friday Vacation Policy, Angering Staff (tech.slashdot.org)

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OpenDSA (opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu)

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OK Boomer, Who’s Going to Buy Your 21M Homes? (www.wsj.com)

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The GPGPU developer experience has a long way to go (www.youtube.com)

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Apple permits developers to contact customers about other payment methods (techcrunch.com)

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The Coming Electric Car Disruption That Nobody’s Talking About (finance.yahoo.com)

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Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood (www.newscientist.com)

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Engineers develop self-healing material to protect steel (phys.org)

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Predicting Daily Stock Market Returns from Just 10 Photos (www.sciencedirect.com)

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The Seven Rules of the Metaverse (medium.com)

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SpaceX ignited a new Raptor engine on Starship without an explosion (arstechnica.com)

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Rust for Fsharpers and F# for Rustaceans (github.com)

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Facebook bungled efforts to curb hate speech ahead of Capitol attack (www.ft.com)

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Figures of Babylon: oldest drawing of a ghost found in British Museum vault (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Drag and drop form builder for web application? (item?id=28955520)

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Creating a Labeled Image Dataset Using Pybossa (www.lucidchart.com)

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Acho (YC W20) Is Hiring (jobs.acho.io)

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Prometheus (YC W19) Is Hiring a MContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1echanical Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)

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Stayflexi (YC W21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)

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