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Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for Doctor Google Flagged Him as a Criminal (www.nytimes.com)

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There’s No Speed Limit (sive.rs)

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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (github.com)

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Zig Self-Hosted Compiler Upgrade Guide (github.com)

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Coping with Copilot (www.sigarch.org)

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Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? (blog.yossarian.net)

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Show HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else) (item?id=32532875)

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The Merge is approaching, and comes with changes to Ethereum (ethereum.org)

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I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E (lucytalksdata.com)

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Supabase Vault (supabase.com)

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Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life (www.theverge.com)

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The world map that reboots your brain (axbom.com)

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So you want to be a consultant? (unixwiz.net)

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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86) (dougallj.wordpress.com)

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A demo of GPT-3's ability to understand long instructions (twitter.com)

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Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats (www.matteason.co.uk)

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A competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life (http://lifecompetes.com)

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Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements (simonwillison.net)

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The Excellent Schemer (code-magazine.com)

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Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological study (2000) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Shared Libraries as Executables (stoppels.ch)

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5

On Being Busy (blog.aadilali.com)

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C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies (2020) (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

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How can we develop transformative tools for thought? [pdf] (numinous.productions)

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Microbiome-driven effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human glucose tolerance (www.cell.com)

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Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity (bastian.rieck.me)

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10

The Silence of Risk Management Victory (riskmusings.substack.com)

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The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival (www.newyorker.com)

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There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one (mashable.com)

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The Merge (avc.com)

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Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance (astralcodexten.substack.com)

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Ask HN: I automated part of someone else's job in my free time – how to proceed? (item?id=32532430)

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Unicode Utilities: Confusables (util.unicode.org)

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Software-defined satellite enters commercial service (www.spacedaily.com)

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ShaderGlass – Overlay applying retro shaders on top of Windows desktop (mausimus.itch.io)

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Microbatteries much smaller than a grain of rice (www.nanowerk.com)

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Flang: LLVM’s Fortran Front End (flang.llvm.org)

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Nvidia Kaolin Wisp: a PyTorch library to work with neural fields (github.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone else feel trapped in FANG? How did you get out? (item?id=32537004)

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Complex of 500 standing stones found in Spain (phys.org)

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The Truth about Laura Ingalls Wilder (2019) (www.montanapress.net)

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Why I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack (tedgioia.substack.com)

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Beyond Hyperanthropormorphism. Or, why fears of AI are not even wrong (studio.ribbonfarm.com)

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JBIG2 Undetectable Data Corruption: Destroying Our Past, One Character at a Time (www.circuitousroot.com)

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Zig is now self–hosted by default (github.com)

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Let's Try Gnome Boxes (glovesoff.substack.com)

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Federated Credential Management API (fedidcg.github.io)

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Hyperparasite (en.wikipedia.org)

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Miami advances plan to move homeless onto island (www.newsnationnow.com)

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The Transputer Handbook (1990) [pdf] (www.transputer.net)

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Deep Learning Alone Isn’t Getting Us to Human-Like AI (www.noemamag.com)

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How far can you go by train in 5h? (www.chronotrains.com)

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Commercials make us like TV more (2010) (hbr.org)

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Webb Telescope Shatters Distance Records, Challenges Astronomers (skyandtelescope.org)

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Stripe has laid off employees behind TaxJar (techcrunch.com)

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YSFlight Source Code Released (forum.ysfhq.com)

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No Sun, No Wind, Now What? Renewable Energy Storage (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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‘They said it was impossible’: how medieval carpenters are rebuilding Notre Dame (www.theguardian.com)

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Lengthening a woman's fertility may extend her life as well, research finds (lite.cnn.com)

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Crossrail Project Update (www.crossrail.co.uk)

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Proof-of-Stake is better than Proof-of-Work; the Merge won’t fix other problems (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Wreck of SMS Kaiser Franz Joseph (historyandwar.org)

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Show HN: As your priorities change, your Google calendar gets rearranged by AI (www.atomiclife.app)

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DALL-E 2 vs. Midjourney vs. StableDiffusion mega thread (twitter.com)

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Poor Man's Global Traffic Manager (gist.github.com)

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Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing emails? (item?id=32535397)

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Go Meta: a Case for Generative Programming and DSLs [pdf] (www.cs.purdue.edu)

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Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP? (item?id=32537032)

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Show HN: An attempt to make a reduce-palette/dither filter for 2d canvas images (scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)

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Seal breaks into New Zealand home, traumatises cat and hangs out on couch (www.theguardian.com)

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Amazon’s health ambitions clashed with medical best practices, nurses say (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Nominal versus Actual: A History of the 2x4 (www.harvarddesignmagazine.org)

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Why Capturing Carbon from the Air Will Always Be Expensive (2020) (rateofchange.substack.com)

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Color Journey (boltkey.github.io)

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The World's Second Biggest Theater Chain Is Filing for Bankruptcy (www.ign.com)

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Show HN: Bandhiking (Unofficial Bandcamp Radio) (bandhiking.isandrew.com)

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Twitter Tells Employees They Might Get Only Half Their Annual Bonus (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Resources for learning networking for back end development (item?id=32535238)

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Ask HN: Storing and Organizing Bookmarks? (item?id=32531465)

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Ask HN: Could there be a “tech.fyi” (like levels.fyi for tech stack maturity?) (item?id=32536610)

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Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Retrospective (acoup.blog)

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Ask HN: Anyone using Rust for server side application development? (item?id=32532411)

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Seawater Derived Cement Could Decarbonise Concrete Industry (www.scimex.org)

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Ask HN: Spam on the domain I just purchased? (item?id=32533504)

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Why Don’t Millennials Have Hobbies? (thewalrus.ca)

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An Old Medicine Grows New Hair for Pennies a Day, Doctors Say (www.nytimes.com)

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Can a Proof-of-Work chain use its computing toward real needs? (item?id=32536488)

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Six Years with a Distraction-Free iPhone (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Why do some companies build their own CICD orchestrators? (item?id=32536318)

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Ukrainians Speak about Being Taken to Russia (www.spiegel.de)

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Why would you launch a bleeping FMV game in 2022? (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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Severe Stress May Send Immune System into Overdrive (2018) (www.webmd.com)

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Crypto Is Tumbling, but in Argentina It’s Still a Safer Bet (www.nytimes.com)

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Gauss's Day of Reckoning (www.americanscientist.org)

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Fractional Calculus (en.wikipedia.org)

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Loire River Has Evaporated (twitter.com)

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I used to support wind power and vilify natural gas. I was so wrong (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Are there any languages for programming-in-the-large? (item?id=32536886)

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Late-stage cervical cancer cases are on the rise (www.npr.org)

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The Largest Image JWST Has Taken So Far (www.universetoday.com)

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Some Sugar Substitutes Affect Blood Glucose and Gut Bacteria (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Jonah Hill to stop promoting films to protect his mental health (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Facebook's Message Encryption Was Built to Fail (www.wired.com)

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The Origins of the Pandemic – Under That Rug (www.science.org)

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Bootstrappable Builds (bootstrappable.org)

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Ask HN: Is it time for AI to start replacing doctors? (item?id=32534550)

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Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn? (item?id=32535377)

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As Apartment Rents Soar in Orlando, Rent Control Goes to a Vote (www.wsj.com)

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It’s time to end the war on salt (2011) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Ask HN: What are the productive ways of using a smartphone? (item?id=32536916)

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My tone doesn't make me wrong, or how I convinced the Ruby project to fix a bug (felipec.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Is this a bug in HN’s search? (item?id=32535637)

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Ask HN: Tools for Noob to Polished IC (item?id=32536835)

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