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Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux (old.reddit.com)

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NYT Ben Hubbard Hacked with Pegasus After Reporting on Previous Hacking Attempts (citizenlab.ca)

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WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers (www.quastor.org)

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The FT 404 page ... someone put some thought into this ... (www.ft.com)

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Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility (github.com)

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How I failed 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0 (kwcodes.com)

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Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office (cric-code.pankajtanwar.in)

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To learn a new language, read its standard library (patshaughnessy.net)

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New language features since Java 8 to 17 (advancedweb.hu)

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How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method (www.geometry.org)

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A Prototype Original iPod (panic.com)

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Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart (www.statnews.com)

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Barcelona’s Bicibús: hundreds of families biking to school together (www.npr.org)

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We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft (buildtheearth.net)

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Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle (www.jetsonaero.com)

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Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum (www.smallstepcap.com)

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Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel (www.cbc.ca)

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Signal for Help (en.wikipedia.org)

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Across Kazakhstan by rail (www.theguardian.com)

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The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings (doi.apa.org)

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Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine? (item?id=28984955)

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New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease (thewalrus.ca)

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Fork Freshness: Discover Active Forks of Abandoned GitHub Repositories (gilesbowkett.com)

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OK Lenovo, we need to talk (www.haiku-os.org)

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Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021 (rinzewind.org)

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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) (longnow.org)

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How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem (www.theregister.com)

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Zlibrary – The Largest eBook Library (z-lib.org)

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WWII ships raised from watery graves by volcanic activity (taiwanenglishnews.com)

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Polyhedra Viewer: Visualize relationships between convex regular-faced polyhedra (polyhedra.tessera.li)

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Signed Integers Are Asymmetrical (borretti.me)

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Show HN: Made a web app to read a book carefully, paragraph by paragraph (https://readwok.com)

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Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Prince of Persia has been released for the Atari XL/XE (www.vintageisthenewold.com)

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Two conspiracy theories about cola (dynomight.net)

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Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Community Banking and Fintech (bam.kalzumeus.com)

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NSA's Key Role in Major Developments in Computer Science [pdf] (media.defense.gov)

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Message from cycling heaven: it’s not that fantastic here (bikecity.amsterdam.nl)

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A few of the best math explainers from this summer (www.youtube.com)

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Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust (yieldcode.blog)

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Show HN: Pimp My Readme (pimp-my-readme.webapp.io)

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Controlling the Terminal with Common Lisp (turtleware.eu)

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Bullets: Sizes, Calibers, and Types (2020) (www.pewpewtactical.com)

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Fun with Nano Server (virtuallyfun.com)

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Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day? (item?id=28979602)

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MTA tests new subway map that evokes jettisoned 1972 version (www.wsj.com)

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Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt (netblocks.org)

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Microservices and the layers to watch for when architecting your system (www.infoq.com)

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20 years of the iPod: how it shuffled music and tech into a new era (www.theguardian.com)

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Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON: Exploring PL/pgSQL (notes.eatonphil.com)

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Art Vote (artvote.net)

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Norfolk sand: Has a colossal experiment worked? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Online editor to create animated SVG (bestsnip.com)

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Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta due to bugs (www.theverge.com)

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Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills (www.economist.com)

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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel with Other Sounds (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Ask HN: Switch from Development to Security? (item?id=28979231)

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Setting up a static HTTPS website on your Raspberry Pi using Docker and Nginx (gist.github.com)

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Lua backed completion engine for nvim (github.com)

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Exosuit Designed in Woodruff School Helps with Awkward Lifts (www.me.gatech.edu)

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Understanding the reasoning behind the four agile values (rchaves.app)

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Gov. Parson releases video attacking newspaper for viewing HTML (www.youtube.com)

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Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google discussed stopping privacy efforts (twitter.com)

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J&J is using a bankruptcy maneuver to block lawsuits over baby powder claims (www.npr.org)

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A City Without Cars Is Already Here, and It’s Idyllic (www.vice.com)

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The Mysterious Case of Mr. X (longreads.com)

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Modifying the Acorn CLE-215 FPGA into a PCILeech DMA Attack Device (blog.frizk.net)

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The World of Cricket Fighting (www.npr.org)

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Alaskan Air Base Will Host an Experimental Mini Nuclear Reactor (www.thedrive.com)

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iPhone 12 owner sues Apple over refusing to repair (www.businessinsider.com)

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Latin by the Dowling Method (wcdrutgers.net)

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Idaesbasic – open-source todolists, kanban and more, all stored in local files (github.com)

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U of T students create fun, science-focused trading cards (www.utoronto.ca)

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Building a Devil’s Toothpaste Rocket Motor (hackaday.com)

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I spent 44 years studying retirement, then I retired (www.wsj.com)

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PinePhone Pro: Finally, a Tangible Alternative (boilingsteam.com)

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Facebook fueled hate speech and violence in India (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A new history of the race to decipher DNA (nautil.us)

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Almost 42,000 sources of toxic 'forever chemicals' (www.ewg.org)

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Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up on corporate networks (www.theregister.com)

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Ask HN: I keep forgetting the new habits I'm trying to form (item?id=28985840)

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Delete Your Facebook App (www.forbes.com)

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Why Facebook makes us worse but Wikipedia makes us better (www.dallasnews.com)

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My team is going in circles. Help (larahogan.me)

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Mysterious 'A Team' just rescued dogs from a volcano's lava zone in La Palma (www.npr.org)

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The Billion Dollar Code – Official Trailer – Netflix (www.youtube.com)

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70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes (cleantechnica.com)

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Tesco say website and app down after hack attempt (www.bbc.com)

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Voicebox 360: The queen of video-game acting (2011) (www.newyorker.com)

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Kubetools – A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools (collabnix.github.io)

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Simple Inkscape Scripting (github.com)

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On Impact-Effort Prioritization (blog.abhi.se)

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Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (www.theguardian.com)

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Couchers: The New Alternative to Couchsurfing (couchers.org)

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How to Catch a Cheating Candidate in an Interview (thinkingthrough.substack.com)

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The Colonization of Space – Gerard K. O’Neill, Physics Today, 1974 (space.nss.org)

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Malware found in [UAParser.js] NPM package with millions of weekly downloads (therecord.media)

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A military AI race is underway between the U.S. and China (www.axios.com)

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Digital nomads want to build an internet country for digital citizens (thenextweb.com)

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US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as storm brews (www.theguardian.com)

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130,600 PG&E customers without power as storm drenches Bay Area (www.sfgate.com)

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Lizard regenerates a perfect tail using stem cells, first in 250M years (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Film DX Coding (2018) (www.photothinking.com)

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'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' The story of the infamous quote (www.wired.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Experienced devs (20+ yrs exp), are you getting interview calls? (item?id=28977519)

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The cost of running government on COBOL (h/t Cowen) (papers.ssrn.com)

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Chrome: Don't need cookies to track users if you own the browser (twitter.com)

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Amazon’s Worst Human Resources Problem (www.nytimes.com)

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It's Time for Programming Puzzles (offbeat.cc)

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Borne Sulinowo: secret cold war Soviet base in Poland, built by Germans [video] (www.bbc.com)

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Just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and (twitter.com)

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Most Americans want major changes to economy, politics and healthcare-new report (www.businessinsider.com)

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A review of All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1983) (georgescialabba.net)

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Why Walgreens Is in Trouble in San Francisco and Is Closing Some Stores (wolfstreet.com)

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Design your day with the knowledge of your future capacity to perform (prdikt.co)

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Microsoft is readying the rollout of Windows 10 21H2 (www.techspot.com)

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UK phone networks to block spoofed VoIP calls (www.bbc.co.uk)

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John Keats’s Politics of Pain and Renewal (www.thenation.com)

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The 10x engineers you are trying to hire are gone (www.linkedin.com)

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Much anew about ‘nudging’ – behavioral economists impact on business and society (www.mckinsey.com)

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Healing Weeds (worldsensorium.com)

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One of the best talks I have ever seen by a historian of science (twitter.com)

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Argon fluoride laser could lead to practical fusion reactors (newatlas.com)

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Show HN: Some Thoughts on Interfaces (nickarner.com)

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US drops tariff threat against nations who apply taxes to American tech giants (www.theregister.com)

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Fisher Price's Iconic Toy Telephone Now Makes Phone Calls (gizmodo.com)

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The hacker who spent a year reclaiming his face from Clearview AI (www.codastory.com)

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Mesmerizing wall turbines could revamp urban renewable energy (www.zmescience.com)

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Iterating on how we do NFS at Wikimedia Cloud Services (techblog.wikimedia.org)

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Good News Your Willpower Isn't Limited–Don’t Believe the “Ego Depletion” Theory (www.nirandfar.com)

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Understanding Wood Grain (www.woodmagazine.com)

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Rich Harris Coined the Term “FauxSS”: Fake OSS (www.youtube.com)

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Apple Says Notch Is a 'Smart Way' to Give Users More Space for Content (www.macrumors.com)

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How Long Can We Play? Inside the quest to prolong athletic mortality (www.si.com)

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He wanted make his revolutionary code free. But Ali Ghodsi is now a billionaire (www.forbesindia.com)

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Telstra, Australian gov’t combine funds for $2.1bn purchase of Digicel (www.itnews.com.au)

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Hydraulic RAM (en.wikipedia.org)

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Lithuanian Covid Pass (threadreaderapp.com)

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Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own (apnews.com)

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Ursula K Le Guin prize for fiction to launch in 2022 (www.theguardian.com)

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US productivity growth is negative and economists aren’t sure why (qz.com)

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How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method (www.geometry.org)

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The tech hiring market has never been this hot: not even during the Dotcom Boom (twitter.com)

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Crypto and Fiat Currencies (item?id=28984609)

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The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler (www.youtube.com)

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The bumpy road to India's electric car dreams (www.bbc.com)

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Emerge Tools (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Remote) (www.ycombinator.com)

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Payflow (YC S21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)

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