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More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade (www.growthbusiness.co.uk)

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François Chollet: Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are 100% counterfeit (twitter.com)

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Spain will introduce free train travel (www.bloomberg.com)

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A Clip from Stray Got Me Banned from Twitter (www.fanbyte.com)

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Burning Ship Fractal (www.paulbourke.net)

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Efficient Dehumidifier Makes Air Conditioning a Breeze (www.pnnl.gov)

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The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time (mort.coffee)

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Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k (9to5mac.com)

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How to drive away your best engineers (blog.hulacorn.com)

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A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent (newsbeezer.com)

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Writing my PhD using groff (jstutter.netlify.app)

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OfficerBreaker – pptx/docx/xlsx password remover (github.com)

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Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking (blog.simpleanalytics.com)

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Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers (wikenigma.org.uk)

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Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon (fortune.com)

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Batman easter egg (click the bat signal) (www.google.com)

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Does the Past Still Exist? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability (www.mdpi.com)

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WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency (www.statnews.com)

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Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard (2004) (queue.acm.org)

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Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a review and meta-analysis (www.who.int)

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The CSS Behind Figma (ishadeed.com)

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Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries (www.axios.com)

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Ask HN: What is the job market like, for niche languages (Nim, crystal)? (item?id=32202798)

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How did the Dominican Republic become so much richer than Haiti? (www.thefitzwilliam.com)

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A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice (www.science.org)

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Google to pause all hiring for two weeks (techcrunch.com)

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Monkeypox declared global health emergency by WHO as cases surge (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning? (item?id=32211734)

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Behind the pretty frames: Resident evil (mamoniem.com)

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Sprites mods – A tiny Pinball Fantasies table (spritesmods.com)

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Prima: Cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Perl (github.com)

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Are language models deprived of electric sleep? (blog.cbs.dk)

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Stop saying “They shouldn't have invested more than they could afford to lose” (blog.mollywhite.net)

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Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families (https://www.famnom.com)

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Typst: Compose Papers Faster (typst.app)

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Mountain Project – Rock Climbing Guides: Routes, Photos and Forum (https://www.mountainproject.com)

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Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth (daringfireball.net)

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Preventing Loss Dot JPEG (computer.rip)

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How to Use Sshfs on OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)

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Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me? (item?id=32209067)

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LLVM backend for m88k architecture (github.com)

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World’s fairs acted as showcases for American cocktail ingenuity (punchdrink.com)

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Ancient Siberian dogs relied on humans for seafood diets (phys.org)

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Windows lost market share in the last decade (stockapps.com)

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Cold Emails and Twitter (guzey.com)

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How to Fold a Julia Fractal – A tale of numbers that like to turn (2013) (acko.net)

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An informal review of CTF abuse (gynvael.coldwind.pl)

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Why is DALL-E a scam? (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday? (item?id=32210004)

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Mutt's Secret Sauce (2017) (nosubstance.me)

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Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess (ideas.repec.org)

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Where's the Fun in Accessibility? (elisehe.in)

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Body integrity identity disorder (BIID): How satisfied are successful wannabes [pdf] (opus.bsz-bw.de)

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Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland? (e360.yale.edu)

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Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983) (theanarchistlibrary.org)

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Interview with the Panama Papers Whistleblower (www.spiegel.de)

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The UOR-Universal Object Reference Framework (next.redhat.com)

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The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change (www.bbc.com)

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Deadspin changed sports journalism (globalsportmatters.com)

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The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve (2019) [pdf] (web.archive.org)

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Male ‘biological clock’ can affect chances of birth more than was thought (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools? (item?id=32205036)

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Trudeau pushes ahead on fertilizer reduction as provinces and farmers cry foul (torontosun.com)

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Ask HN: Indie devs, what is your development process? (item?id=32205338)

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Stop Drinking Now (marginalrevolution.com)

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Raspberry Pi Pico W Silicon Level Teardown (electronupdate.blogspot.com)

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Spawned Shelter (spawnedshelter.com)

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Nullptr, constexpr, embedd, safer enums, type inference approved for C23 (twitter.com)

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Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia (2021) (www.cambridge.org)

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Open rights group sound ‘Red Alert’ as UK announces bonfire of data rights (www.openrightsgroup.org)

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Stop Using “Real Time” Wrong (bellmar.medium.com)

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The Secret Service Texting Scandal Makes No Sense (www.theatlantic.com)

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Jiddu Krishnamurti – How to Live in This World (jkrishnamurti.org)

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Ask HN: Developers who switched from native development to Flutter, how is it? (item?id=32209051)

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Overview of Graph Theory and Alzheimer's Disease (thegradient.pub)

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Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years (www.cnbc.com)

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Rogers letter to CRTC on cause of Canada-wide service outage of July 2022 (crtc.gc.ca)

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Kafka on Kubernetes: What could go wrong? (redpanda.com)

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Online, “run philosophy” has become a coded way of talking about emigrating (www.theguardian.com)

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The military made a robot that can eat organisms for fuel (www.wearethemighty.com)

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Child vaping epidemic risks becoming ‘public health catastrophe’ in UK (www.theguardian.com)

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The new MacBook Air runs so hot that it affects performance (arstechnica.com)

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Trading Crypto and Forex with JavaScript (github.com)

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Show HN: Catp – print the output of a running process (github.com)

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Build a Skyscraper That Stretches for 75 Miles (www.wsj.com)

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FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL and AVIF: how to convert images (nixsanctuary.com)

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Package for analyzing Telegram chats and finding parasite words of your friends (github.com)

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Mystery shrouds colossal Brink’s heist at I-5 truck stop (www.latimes.com)

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Why Swiss Trains Are the Best in Europe [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: High quality digital art printing? (item?id=32205761)

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Secret Australian marijuana facility exposes location after turning sky pink (www.washingtonpost.com)

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How the US almost blasted an alternative Suez Canal using 520 nukes (interestingengineering.com)

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They Thought ‘Crypto Banks’ Were Safe, and Then Came the Crash (www.wsj.com)

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Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Game of Life on the MEGA65, in assembly language (dansanderson.com)

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Show HN: Skłable – a scrabble-like game created with Scala and Scala.js (github.com)

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AI’s progress isn’t the same as creating human intelligence in machines (www.technologyreview.com)

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Contracts for CTOs: The main legal clauses that matter to your organization (www.amazon.co.uk)

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Google: Whatever happened to ‘Don’t be evil’? (www.spiked-online.com)

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My Big Coin founder is – you guessed it – a $6m crypto-fraudster (www.theregister.com)

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Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress (unherd.com)

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MIT scientists found a way to boil water more quickly and efficiently (interestingengineering.com)

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Controlling the temperature inside equipment racks (2010) [pdf] (www.markertek.com)

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Keeper Tax job ad is how job ads should be (item?id=32208041)

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Interview with Hermann Hauser, Founder of Arm (www.theguardian.com)

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Simple MMU for the Z80 (2015) (sites.google.com)

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Are the parents criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? (nymag.com)

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Ask HN: A matching site for intellectual/study partners? (item?id=32208127)

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Ask HN: Is 20 too late to go to college? (item?id=32207624)

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Growing Up with Frank O’Hara (newrepublic.com)

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Ask HN: Best banking partner for issuing prepaid debit cards (item?id=32202643)

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Three-Player Chess Is Just as Challenging as It Sounds (interestingengineering.com)

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A Taste for Cannibalism? (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Share your side project and your motivation (item?id=32208110)

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I'm running a D&D campaign for my daughter and a friend over Zoom (twitter.com)

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Photos of Vis-O-Matic, the pre-Internet online shopping store, 1950s (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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World Health Organization says monkeypox outbreak is now a global emergency (www.usatoday.com)

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Videos released by the Police are no longer welcome on YouTube (www.youtube.com)

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Where to live if your company is sticking to remote? (www.fastcompany.com)

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Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Keeper Tax (YC W19) is hiring a data engineer to save freelancers $ on taxes (www.ycombinator.com)

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