hackerNews

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I resigned from Twitter (twitter.com)

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Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe (item?id=29387264)

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From ClojureScript to JavaScript&rust; 4x smaller, 50x faster (blog.asciinema.org)

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Winamp Source Code Leak (web.archive.org)

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Workers Quit Jobs in Droves to Become Their Own Bosses (www.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions? (item?id=29382643)

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Google Chromium, sans integration with Google (ungoogled-software.github.io)

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Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library (www.solidjs.com)

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Will Nix Overtake Docker (blog.replit.com)

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Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto (www.npr.org)

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PostgREST v9.0.0 (postgrest.org)

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Release Candidate of PeerTube V4 is out (framablog.org)

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A $5B hoard of metal the world wants but can’t have (www.mining.com)

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Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language (github.com)

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Breakthrough, PhD student creates a simple, cost-effective laser on silicon (brighterworld.mcmaster.ca)

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I wish I'd self-published sooner (blog.alexellis.io)

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Open source RISC-V GPGPU (github.com)

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Emacs Docs The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (www.emacsdocs.org)

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I became the internet’s most notorious bike thief (stealing nothing) (cyclingtips.com)

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Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer (item?id=29382127)

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Why Adversarial Image Attacks Are No Joke (www.unite.ai)

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Show HN: Security Camera Lens Calculator (www.jvsg.com)

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Disney’s Influence on U.S. Copyright Law (online.yu.edu)

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How the Ancient Romans Went to the Bathroom (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video] (archive.org)

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AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion (github.com)

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Long View: Is the World Deglobalising? (www.realchinacharts.com)

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Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’ (www.unite.ai)

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The Case of the Recursive Resolvers (slack.engineering)

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The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video] (media.handmade-seattle.com)

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Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD (mccarty.io)

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LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups (blog.yossarian.net)

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Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West (americanaffairsjournal.org)

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Costly Airbus paint flaw goes wider than the Gulf (www.reuters.com)

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Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data (netflixtechblog.medium.com)

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1958: Dam the Bering Strait, use nuclear-powered propellers to melt poles (2020) (weathermodificationhistory.com)

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The Science of Mind Reading (www.newyorker.com)

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes New EIP to Tackle Ethereum’s Sky-High Gas Fees (cryptonews.com)

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The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3 (lastweekin.ai)

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Toyota Children's Web Site (1995) (www.toyota.co.jp)

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Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer (github.com)

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Flow-field.js – A library for generating flow fields (github.com)

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Show HN: Security Camera Lens Calculator ( www.jvsg.com/online/ ) (item?id=29381055)

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Elon Musk says SpaceX faces ‘genuine risk of bankruptcy’ from Starship engine (spaceexplored.com)

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Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020) (whatismusic.info)

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Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984) (www.youtube.com)

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The History of WD-40 (tedium.co)

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Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi (erdaltoprak.com)

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Bring Back Web1 (midrange.tedium.co)

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Architecture in Music: looking inside musical instruments (www.charlesbrooks.info)

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Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma (www.lynalden.com)

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How to Read a Jellyfish's Mind (www.caltech.edu)

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Introduction to Algorithms, Fourth Edition – The MIT Press (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought (www.umass.edu)

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Researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring (www.theguardian.com)

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CPU Pinning and CPU Sets (2020) (www.netmeister.org)

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Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs (jaredkrinke.github.io)

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CD box sets are wonderful (smackeyacky.blogspot.com)

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Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (aws.amazon.com)

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Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce (wyss.harvard.edu)

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Xenobots: replicating living robots made from frog cells (www.uvm.edu)

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Omicron poses high global risk, world must prepare – WHO (www.reuters.com)

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How to help GNU Emacs maintainers? (bzg.fr)

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Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections (news.cornell.edu)

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Is Technological Progress Slowing? - The Case of American Agriculture (mattsclancy.substack.com)

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Polite Technology (polite.technology)

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Clothes from 8k Years Ago Were Made from Trees, New Research Suggests (gizmodo.com)

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Could One Shot Kill the Flu? (www.newyorker.com)

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Observability vs. monitoring debate: An irreverent view (ubuntu.com)

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Managing Risks in Research (alastairreid.github.io)

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Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces (2004) (web.archive.org)

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Show HN: An AWS Savings Plans Calculator (cloudshim.com)

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Show HN: Vado – A platform to encourage people to cycle and walk more (https://vado.cc)

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Camel beauty contests take center stage at a celebration of Bedouin culture (www.nytimes.com)

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Rapid Vitamin D Supplementation May Present Better Outcomes in Covid-19 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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German coalition treaty endorses “Public Money, Public Code” principle (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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Audio Distortion and THD Explained (www.soundguys.com)

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Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in Microsoft (www.wsj.com)

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Show HN: SQLToy – a tiny relational database for learning SQL via code (github.com)

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What are some cool holiday gifts for techies? (item?id=29380795)

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Why is an obfuscated JavaScript payload part of an NPM command? (github.com)

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Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes (https://rapidrecipe.reichel.dev)

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NPR: Books We Love (apps.npr.org)

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Making Sense of Recipes for Amulets and Natural Magic, Kabbalistic Style (recipes.hypotheses.org)

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Chat.sr.ht: a persistent IRC session for Sourcehut users (sourcehut.org)

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Ask HN: When and why did HN comment scores go away? I found value in them. (item?id=29380977)

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Std: Print is headed for C++23. std:cout is now a code smell (twitter.com)

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Lego gives its 20k employees three days extra holiday after profits rise 140% (www.theguardian.com)

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For DNSSEC (easydns.com)

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Ending the depression through planned obsolescence (1932) (babel.hathitrust.org)

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The Internet Is a Potemkin Village: Proof of Dead Internet Theory? (forum.agoraroad.com)

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Karpenter by AWS – Kubernetes node autoscaling (github.com)

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Crystal Detector (en.wikipedia.org)

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Researchers Find Finger Snap Has Highest Acceleration the Human Body Produces (www.nsf.gov)

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To a Young Extremist (2014) (c2.com)

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FiraCode v6 released – char variants, progress bar, new Unicode char (github.com)

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Shortage of Adult Workers Makes Teens Employable Again (reason.com)

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4x Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi – an 8x Voodoo GPU bodge and restoration (hardforum.com)

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The Invisible Scars Adult Children of Workaholics Bring to Their Careers (www.forbes.com)

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William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker (publicdomainreview.org)

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Verifying Nand2Tetris Assembly with Constrained Horn Clauses (2021) (www.philipzucker.com)

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Digging for Utopia (www.nybooks.com)

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Nvidia at risk of $1.25bn loss if Arm takeover falls through (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Imgproxy: A fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting images (github.com)

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Robotic Kitchen Automation Levels (lorenzopieri.com)

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Practical Security Recommendations for Startups with Limited Budgets (ajxchapman.github.io)

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Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into C (arstechnica.com)

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Why scientists think the new omicron variant may have emerged in an HIV patient (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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How LambdaMART Works (softwaredoug.com)

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Go Note Go (davidbieber.com)

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Ensembles (github.com)

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Scientists Discover First-Known Non-Oxygen Breathing Animal Nature (www.pbs.org)

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Israel’s spy agency will track Omicron patients’ phones, at least thru Thursday (www.nytimes.com)

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Boeing Was Set on the Path to Disaster by the Cult of Jack Welch (www.thedailybeast.com)

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GraphQL and PostgreSQL as a managed back end? (item?id=29390454)

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Show HN: Tempchan – Throwaway Discussion Boards (tempchan.com)

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How Cloud-Based Supercomputing Is Changing R&D (hbr.org)

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iCloud Backup not e2e encrypted, Apple still begs you to use it (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: What are the signs that someone is intelligent? (item?id=29378231)

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Semantic search through Wikipedia with the Weaviate vector search engine (github.com)

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Ruby 3.0.3 Released (www.ruby-lang.org)

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ICCL Submits EC Oversight Complaint about Ireland's Failure to Uphold GDPR (www.iccl.ie)

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Delta Omicron. Founded 1909. Unfortunate 112 years later. (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Ticketing Conundrum (www.echoeshq.com)

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Satellite reveals Australian coal mines emit much more methane than expected (phys.org)

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Could AI turn on us, or is natural stupidity a greater threat to humanity? (www.theguardian.com)

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What Virgil Abloh’s Drudge Report Inspired Site Says About the State of Design (medium.com)

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Most Prescribed Drugs in the U.S. (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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Apple says it will notify users whose iPhones were hacked by spyware (www.nbcnews.com)

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Miramax Sues Tarantino for Copyright Infringement over “Pulp Fiction” NFT Sale (torrentfreak.com)

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Scientists Create Salt Grain-Sized Hi-Res Camera (80.lv)

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Who Was ZYZZ? (www.youtube.com)

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ProtonMail Bridge – Message UIDs are not stable (github.com)

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Intel’s Secret Warehouse in Costa Rica (www.wsj.com)

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An Examination of “The Martian” Trajectory (a.k.a. Rich Purnell Maneuver) (2015) (ntrs.nasa.gov)

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Greg's Brass History Page (www.alsmiddlebrasspages.com)

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Grigori Rasputin (en.wikipedia.org)

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Raspberry Pi Plans $500m Spring Listing (www.tomshardware.com)

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Uncontrolled HIV could “become a factory of variants for the whole world” (news.yahoo.com)

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Stripe Terminal expands into Europe (stripe.com)

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Labor board authorizes new Amazon union vote (techcrunch.com)

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Crypto Design Challenges (paulstamatiou.com)

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Revisiting the Bangladesh Mask RCT (www.argmin.net)

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Dynamic Digital Maps (2020) (ddm.geo.umass.edu)

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Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game” (www.welcometothejungle.com)

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Bitcoin and Electricity (marginalrevolution.com)

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Ask HN: Igniting cool conversations from incoming LinkedIn connection requests (item?id=29380615)

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Avoid a Privacy Nightmare with “Lean Privacy Review” (www.cylab.cmu.edu)

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The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone (www.nytimes.com)

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Practical SNARK-based VDF (zkproof.org)

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NFTs Are Copyright for Web3 (news.verida.io)

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New Zeland Gov to push for international ban of autonomous weapons/killer robots (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Trading in Twitter halted with Jack Dorsey expected to quit; shares jump 10% (www.ft.com)

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Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits (www.lesswrong.com)

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Fact check: Is nuclear energy good for the climate? (www.dw.com)

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The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer (www.themuse.com)

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Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management (jobs.ashbyhq.com)

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Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring (item?id=29389687)

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SuperTokens (YC S20) Is Hiring a devrel / dev advocate (angel.co)

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