hackerNews

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This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Townscaper Running in the Browser (oskarstalberg.com)

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Supersonic Trebuchet (hackaday.com)

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Ask HN: What are these low quality “Code Snippet” sites? (item?id=29403947)

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Stripe applicants say that the company is rescinding offers after it makes them (www.protocol.com)

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Google voluntarily de-lists The Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)

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Instagram Is Facebook Now (embedded.substack.com)

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Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags (www.mattblaze.org)

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Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company (www.justice.gov)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021) (item?id=29405056)

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Firefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Quickly (taras.glek.net)

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Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00) (www.gandi.net)

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Darebee – A database of workouts (darebee.com)

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The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation (tech.marksblogg.com)

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Making Websites Small (santurcesoftware.com)

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Is the Four-Day Workweek Finally Within Our Grasp? (www.nytimes.com)

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Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in (https://www.mothminds.com)

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Square is now called Block (twitter.com)

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BetrFS, file system that uses Bε trees (www.betrfs.org)

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Show HN: Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC (github.com)

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Open source Business intelligence platform made with Python (superset.apache.org)

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Turing Pi 2: 4 Raspberry Pi nodes on a mini ITX board (www.jeffgeerling.com)

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Glitch effect on text in pure CSS (dustri.org)

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The Impending Cloud Reshuffle (erikbern.com)

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Apple Music is the last library focused music service (erdaltoprak.com)

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Realtime Postgres Row Level Security (supabase.com)

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Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates (www.reuters.com)

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ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing (imagemagick.org)

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GitHub Copilot Labs (github.com)

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Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China (www.wtatennis.com)

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My worst tech interview experience (www.jessesquires.com)

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Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy (www.bbc.com)

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Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public (news.stlpublicradio.org)

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Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations? (thenextweb.com)

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WebGPU computations performance in comparison to WebGL (pixelscommander.com)

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A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system (github.com)

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Some Thoughts on Microservices (filipnikolovski.com)

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How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in Rural Indiana (www.vanityfair.com)

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Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to plastics (news.ucr.edu)

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Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix (tvl.fyi)

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Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online (old.reddit.com)

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Block (aka Square, Tidal, CashApp etc) (block.xyz)

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Amateur Archaeologist in Switzerland Unearths 2k-Year-Old Roman Dagger (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH (wwvarc.org)

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Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books (fs.blog)

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021) (item?id=29405054)

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YC Rookie Mistakes: Fundraising [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1 (freddiev4.xyz)

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Software development pushes us to get better as people (jessitron.com)

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Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)

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Exploring the beauty of pure mathematics in novel ways (deepmind.com)

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SQLite in a PWA (Anita) with FileSystemAccessAPI (anita-app.com)

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What Makes SRGB a Special Color Space? – PhotoSauce Blog (photosauce.net)

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Nature Is Becoming a Person (foreignpolicy.com)

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Twitter photo-removal policy aimed at improving privacy goes into effect (text.npr.org)

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Doctor Web discovered vulnerabilities in children’s smart watches (news.drweb.com)

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An introduction to topos theory [pdf] (www.fuw.edu.pl)

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Data Exfiltration via CSS and SVG Font (mksben.l0.cm)

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Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in response to climate change (www.science.org)

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Uno Platform 4 (platform.uno)

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Happy palindrome day 12-02-2021 (item?id=29413195)

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Become a Signal Sustainer (signal.org)

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Post Infocom: Boffo Games (www.filfre.net)

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It's now officially illegal in Ontario for your boss to bug you after-hours (www.blogto.com)

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What Is Hammock Driven Development? (stokoe.me)

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The talent and labor of Stephen Sondheim (newcriterion.com)

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Writers on their day jobs (lithub.com)

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An Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day (www.theverge.com)

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Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage Class (aws.amazon.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2021) (item?id=29405055)

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Qubes OS 4.1-rc2 has been released (www.qubes-os.org)

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The epidemiological relevance of the Covid-19vaccinated population is increasing (www.thelancet.com)

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Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Queen of Clean (www.afar.com)

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Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI (www.nature.com)

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Why the Wolfram Language Is (Like) Open Source (blog.wolfram.com)

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The urinary leash: how the death of public toilets traps and trammels us all (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Definitive source for real estate statistics? (item?id=29407184)

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Understanding the Body Electric (www.newyorker.com)

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Show HN: Background.webcam – Train new hires remotely in real-time (https://www.background.webcam)

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Ask HN: How do you stay active while working from home? (item?id=29409223)

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Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon (www.pcmag.com)

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Cray Customer Service – Memories (1979 to 2014) by Charles Clark (cray-history.net)

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A different kind of Covid vaccine is about ready to roll (www.npr.org)

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Stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31M in digital coin (arstechnica.com)

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The life of René Magritte (spectatorworld.com)

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Event Streaming is not Event Sourcing (event-driven.io)

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MH370 Gdtaaa Analysis (www.mh370search.com)

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Ask HN: What's so bad about NFTs? (item?id=29412708)

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Lawsuit: Google employees were fired for upholding “Don’t be evil” code (arstechnica.com)

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Jack Dorsey’s Square is changing its name to Block (www.theverge.com)

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The Ten Rules of Golden Age Detective Fiction (kottke.org)

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Samsung-Esperanto Concept AI-SSD Prototype (fuse.wikichip.org)

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Meta (Facebook) Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider (press.aboutamazon.com)

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JingPad Review: A Linux Tablet with Potential, but Rough Edges (tedium.co)

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Can you safely parse a double when you need a float? (lemire.me)

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The epidemiological relevance of the Covid-vaccinated population is increasing (www.thelancet.com)

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Tinder co-founders win $441m after valuation dispute with Match (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (December 2021) (item?id=29405544)

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DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Establish a Right to Record Police Officers (www.techdirt.com)

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The Burgeoning Need for Focus (allenpike.com)

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You Can’t Optimize for Rest (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)

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Fragments of Olympian Gossip (en.wikipedia.org)

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Software Tools in C++ (www.jezuk.co.uk)

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China and Russia attack US satellites every day: Space Force general says (maggrand.com)

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Advent of code 2021 has started (https://adventofcode.com)

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Ask HN: Is working at Amazon worth it? (item?id=29410451)

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Sony staffer accused of embezzling $155M while working remotely (asia.nikkei.com)

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Turks Flee to Gold, Bitcoin, and Foreign Currency as Government Devalues Lira (reason.com)

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The Sopranos: Endings and Non-Endings (siddhesh.substack.com)

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The diabetes medication that could revolutionise heart failure treatment (www.uea.ac.uk)

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Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block (squareup.com)

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Show HN: KatLang – Language for Calculations (katlang.org)

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The Raku Advent Calendar 2021 (raku-advent.blog)

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Being in a Building (aeon.co)

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Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage (www.theartnewspaper.com)

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Wireshark for macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon) is now available (www.wireshark.org)

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The Story of the IBM Model M4 Family (sharktastica.co.uk)

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Square changes corporate name to Block (www.cnbc.com)

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At any given university, the kids from public schools are smarter (twitter.com)

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Research Unix v7 for Raspberry Pi (github.com)

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SoftBank-Backed Startup Better.com Axes 900 in Three Minutes (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential (arstechnica.com)

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The Guide to Data Analysis with DuckDB (www.analyticsvidhya.com)

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Xenobots, the world’s first living robots (www.growbyginkgo.com)

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New DynamoDB Table Class (Infrequent Access) 60% Cheaper than Standard Access. (aws.amazon.com)

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The Astronomical Librarian (thonyc.wordpress.com)

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Explain This Paper (explainthispaper.com)

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Ask HN: How has exercise changed your outlook on life? (item?id=29410525)

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Facebook: Fake scientist used to spread anti-US propaganda (techxplore.com)

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Ask HN: How can I learn copywriting? (item?id=29407127)

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PyTorch Live (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Where to ask for feedback about a cryptography related tool (item?id=29408806)

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How we made the Hacker News Doppelgänger app (blog.streamlit.io)

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Ask HN: Where can I learn about programming SIMD and branchless programming? (item?id=29405469)

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Facebook risks meta flop, metaverse developers say (www.reuters.com)

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Create a Cold War-Era Numbers Station with Twilio and Python Flask (www.twilio.com)

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CEOs and insiders sell a record $69B of their stock (www.cnbc.com)

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How to Fix Twitter (noahpinion.substack.com)

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Reddit is adding new real-time features, including a live upvote count (www.theverge.com)

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Book Review: Lifespan (astralcodexten.substack.com)

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HP's Clarke – 4-Bit CPU/LCD Driver/Memory Controller (grack.com)

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Scientists mapping the world's underground fungi network to fight climate change (www.cbc.ca)

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Apple Tells Suppliers iPhone Demand Has Slowed as Holidays Near (www.bloomberg.com)

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Comparing performance of M1 chips: P and E (eclecticlight.co)

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The Blockbuster Exhibit That Shouldn’t Have Been: “Magdalenian Girl” (www.sapiens.org)

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Princeton team disables long-targeted gene behind spread of major cancers (newatlas.com)

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Astronomers Observe a New Type of Binary Star (www.cfa.harvard.edu)

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Gyrobus (en.wikipedia.org)

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Spin your own autodiff in C++ (tbz533.blogspot.com)

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Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bonds (www.livescience.com)

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Show HN: I'm trying to bring Async to Django ORM (github.com)

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Toronto Is Replacing Air Conditioners with Lake Water to Cool Buildings (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

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How Much Should You Lie? (www.strangeloopcanon.com)

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Ask HN: Is Timeshare a Scam? (item?id=29407583)

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Make Your Voice Heard: The Latest Advances in MEMS Voice Sensors (www.coventor.com)

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Meta AI: NeuralProphet (ai.facebook.com)

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Sixth Member of International Hacking Community Sentenced in SIM Card Scheme (www.nextgov.com)

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RumbleDB: Query with ease a lot of different nested, heterogeneous data formats (github.com)

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Centaur Labs (YC W19) Is Hiring an Infrastructure Tech Lead (Boston or Remote) (www.centaurlabs.com)

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Recurrency (YC S20) is hiring senior engineers to fix supply chain software (item?id=29409079)

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Miso (YC S16) Is Hiring in Seoul, Korea (www.workatastartup.com)

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