hackerNews

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The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack (www.economist.com)

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Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with legal language (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast (www.avsforum.com)

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An X11 Apologist Tries Wayland (artemis.sh)

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Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl (www.kapwing.com)

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You can watch how much I rewrite here (twitter.com)

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America’s most remarkable kid died in Newcastle, Utah (www.deseret.com)

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Measuring CPU core-to-core latency (github.com)

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Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto (adamnash.blog)

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Finding the “Second Bug” in Glibc’s Condition Variable (probablydance.com)

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Hacker News stylized as a retro 90s macOS desktop (hackertosh.org)

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How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide (www.zenrows.com)

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macOS Subsystem for Linux (github.com)

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YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in WebKit (github.com)

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The Hyperinflation Gallery (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)

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Java's Cultural Problem (alexn.org)

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How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps (www.mercurynews.com)

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Bitcoin is not a Store of Value (cryptostackers.substack.com)

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Linux command line for you and me (lym.readthedocs.io)

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Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge? (item?id=32896299)

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Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for Gritty people? (item?id=32893292)

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Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 (www.atlasobscura.com)

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My productivity system (www.nunodonato.com)

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Show HN: Distributed JMAP and IMAP Servers in Rust (github.com)

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Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”? (item?id=32888730)

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Why Fix Kubernetes and Systemd? (medium.com)

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Mister FPGA: Recreate classic computers using modern hardware (mister-devel.github.io)

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The Subprime Loans for College Hiding in Plain Sight (www.nytimes.com)

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The beginning of the Monte Carlo method (1987) [pdf] (lib-www.lanl.gov)

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Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 Skyscraper during 6.8 earthquake [video] (www.youtube.com)

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PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name (twitter.com)

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Note-taking isn't rocket science (tsk.bearblog.dev)

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Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt (git.meli.delivery)

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TikTok privacy policy says they monitor names of other installed apps (www.tiktok.com)

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Censorship of our report on govt purchasing from Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (techinquiry.org)

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https://16777217/ (16777217.)

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GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (developers.redhat.com)

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Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture (chipsandcheese.com)

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Hg64: A 64-bit histogram data structure (dotat.at)

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The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense (www.ft.com)

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How to blow $85M in 11 months: The inside story of Airlift’s crash (restofworld.org)

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Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter (www.theregister.com)

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Sim NIMBY, the Game Where You Can’t Build Anything (www.vice.com)

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History of the Monte Carlo method (en.wikipedia.org)

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Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT (president.mit.edu)

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Matrix was worth the effort to self host (old.reddit.com)

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Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices (github.com)

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How Chem Lab Made Me a Better Dev (edweissman.com)

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How James Clear is writing his next book (every.to)

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Not Perfect, Just Better (satfax.substack.com)

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Ada Programming Language (ada-lang.io)

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Ask HN: How to cancel Adobe CC subscription without paying a “cancellation fee”? (item?id=32888018)

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Ask HN: Where are the interesting conversations? (item?id=32886926)

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The future of documentation at Canonical (2021) (ubuntu.com)

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Refurb weekend: New batteries for the Palm Pilots (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

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Steps to designing an embedded software architecture, Step 1 (www.embedded.com)

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KTM Unveils A Revamped 890 Adventure R for 2023 (www.advpulse.com)

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Haskell's Operator Glossary (www.fpcomplete.com)

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‘The Rings of Power’ Has Inexplicably Terrible Writing (www.forbes.com)

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How to get started with Rust for Web Dev (mortenvistisen.com)

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Fan-Baiting as a Movie Marketing Strategy? (www.lastmovieoutpost.com)

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GTA 6 leaks. Source code allegedly stolen in Rockstar hack. (old.reddit.com)

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Translating Piracy: On the origin of the Arabic words qurṣān/qarṣanah (blogs.bl.uk)

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Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter (www.wsj.com)

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Dissecting Adobe’s Dumb Deal (www.ft.com)

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A poor Louisiana community won $4M for broadband. ISP giant standing in its way (www.protocol.com)

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Refreezing Earth's poles feasible and cheap, new study finds (phys.org)

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Musk admits he announced Hyperloop to get California’s high-speed rail canceled (twitter.com)

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The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of Eels (hakaimagazine.com)

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Global-Chem: A Free Dictionary from Common Chemical Names to Molecules (www.globalchemistry.org)

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Of God and Machines (www.theatlantic.com)

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Adobe-Figma deal: “I've never seen a level of investor hatred like this” (finance.yahoo.com)

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Merriam-Webster and Unstructured Data Processing (www.georgeho.org)

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Should the Government Block the Adobe-Figma Merger? (docs.google.com)

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How Tokyo avoided the affordable housing crisis (www.konichivalue.com)

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Visualizing how S3 deletes 1B objects with Athena and Rust (tomforb.es)

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A minimal distributed key-value database with HashiCorp's Raft library (notes.eatonphil.com)

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70-year-old quantum prediction comes true, as something is created from nothing (bigthink.com)

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Rome Was His Laboratory (www.nybooks.com)

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Cash buyers make up almost a third of U.S. home purchases (www.deseret.com)

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Ask HN: How to Learn Basic Botany? (item?id=32889812)

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iPhone 14 Pro camera shaking and rattling in TikTok, Snapchat, and other apps (9to5mac.com)

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TensorFlow Port of the Stable Diffusion Model (github.com)

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DHS to Spend Almost $700k Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’ (www.vice.com)

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Volkswagen targets $70.1B to $75.1B valuation in planned Porsche IPO (www.cnbc.com)

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America taps 150 prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime (www.theregister.com)

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GPS jammers are being used to hijack trucks and down drones (www.zdnet.com)

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Why Adults Care What Young People Think (robkhenderson.substack.com)

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GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source (github.com)

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Precision DIY calipers? That’s a moiré (hackaday.com)

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Queen’s Funeral security plan is more complex than the London 2012 Olympics (www.wired.com)

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Twilio CEO announces 11% of employees will be laid off (www.foxbusiness.com)

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Inside the Documentary Cash Grab (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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The first flying bike can stay in the air for 40 minutes (interestingengineering.com)

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The company that makes GIFs says they're 'cringe' and 'out of fashion' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Milestone: My archaeology newsletter just hit 1K subs - next stop, monetization (item?id=32890617)

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Ask HN: How do you cope/work with endless cycle of webdev? (item?id=32886788)

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The persistent myth of “learning styles” (www.educationnext.org)

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Choosing multi-beneficial actions (medium.com)

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The New Meta-Materials for Superlenses and Invisibility Cloaks (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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Richard Rusczyk Is a Math Evangelist Who Preaches Problem-Solving (www.quantamagazine.org)

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The upstream water used to keep Lake Powell afloat is running out (lite.cnn.com)

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A fun Xkcd 2347 for you: the Python certifi package (twitter.com)

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Error: Command line tools not installed (twitter.com)

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WA will be a launch pad for silicon technology to boost EV batteries (www.seattletimes.com)

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How to fight desertification and reverse climate change with livestock [video] (www.ted.com)

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Russia strikes nuclear plant in south Ukraine, damaging power plant buildings (binsider.bond)

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What's the right age to get a smartphone? (www.bbc.com)

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A New Home for Tippecanoe (felt.com)

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Ask HN: Open-source video transcribing software? (item?id=32893976)

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Tiny GPS Logger for the Internet of Animals (hackaday.com)

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RJ45 vs. RJ48C? (1997) (groups.google.com)

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