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  • 7 32

    GitHub security update: A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions (github.blog)
  • 10 36

    User interface design, I swear (blog.plover.com)
  • 15 25

    Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary (nevalalee.wordpress.com)
  • 1 13

    I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc (theroadchoseme.com)
  • 4 12

    Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
  • 0 10

    Trill Flex: A sensor that bends to your project (blog.bela.io)
  • 11 74

    Paying my bills with 'free' ebooks (learnbyexample.github.io)
  • 13 25

    AI learns from brain signals to create personalized attractive faces (newatlas.com)
  • 65 86

    Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
  • 40 73

    Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes (blog.waymo.com)
  • 46 171

    New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 24 153

    A Year at Google Brain (www.debugmind.com)
  • 243 298

    I want a Computer that I Own (misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)
  • 7 66

    The Most-Used Mathematical Algorithm Idea in History (2016) (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  •   6

    Google image search cements national stereotypes of 'racy' women (www.dw.com)
  • 1 5

    The Famed Painting the Scream Holds a Hidden Message (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 5 7

    Google Ads is worse than cocaine or why the house always wins (devmargin.substack.com)
  • 36 109

    Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption: This Is Important (www.anandtech.com)
  • 162 123

    On Being Blacklisted (aaronkunin.medium.com)
  • 0 11

    At Home with Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals (2020) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 93 102

    SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes (arstechnica.com)
  • 45 24

    Third-party food delivery remains an uncertain business (www.restaurantbusinessonline.com)
  • 54 140

    Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019) (erikbern.com)
  • 47 21

    Amazon Fresh Opens in London (www.fruitnet.com)
  • 114 92

    Does stress impact technical interview performance? (2020) [pdf] (www.chrisparnin.me)
  • 211 157

    Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it
  • 10 10

    Silicon Valley Stays on Top as Tech Salaries Climb Across U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 16 29

    Crypto Governance Voting Tracker (cryptocracy.vercel.app)
  • 169 153

    Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be Level 2 (www.thedrive.com)
  • Mux (YC W16) is hiring engineers to work with Elixir and modern (Type|Java)Script (mux.com)
  • 9 17

    Immutable Approaches (macwright.com)
  • 67 155

    The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science (rogerpielkejr.substack.com)
  • 6 8

    Developing an underwater robot to save people from drowning (www.fraunhofer.de)
  • 7 4

    Show HN: Farmhand – an open source, multiplayer farming game PWA (jeremyckahn.github.io)
  • 77 114

    A decade long Google account disabled with no warning or reason (twitter.com)
  • 37 59

    Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books (zeneca.io)
  • 208 234

    When the prison banned board games, we played chess in our minds (www.themarshallproject.org)
  • 5 29

    Historic Maps of London (www.layersoflondon.org)
  • 105 226

    Why I did not go to jail (2014) (a16z.com)
  • 93 81

    Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas (arstechnica.com)
  • 226 767

    “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” (twitter.com)
  • 18 76

    Facebook tracking users with background sound (2012) (web.archive.org)
  •   7

    This is how Google will collapse (www.schoolinfosystem.org)
  • 10 20

    When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own (www.newyorker.com)
  • 101 72

    Bitcoin network average energy consumption per transaction compared to VISA (www.statista.com)
  • 109 123

    Tripolar Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
  • 67 170

    Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science (www.sanger.ac.uk)
  • 169 342

    MIPS Becomes RISC-V (www.eejournal.com)
  • 41 150

    Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web (palant.info)
  • 1 32

    The machines that paved the way for Apollo (www.airspacemag.com)
  • 61 113

    Remote workstations for discerning artists (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 40 158

    Interview with Patrick Collison (noahpinion.substack.com)
  • 48 31

    Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot (faang.io)
  • 59 42

    Not knowing how to flirt is the main reason behind “involuntary singlehood” (www.psychnewsdaily.com)
  • 21 84

    A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 233 518

    -2000 Lines of Code (www.folklore.org)
  • Flexport is hiring engineers in Chicago (flexport.com)
  • 62 247

    What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? [pdf] (www.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 349 274

    Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer (betterprogramming.pub)
  • 75 88

    Instagram is killing my start up
  • 747 554

    Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet (www.technologyelevation.com)
  • 80 103

    SpaceX reveals the grand extent of its starport plans in South Texas (arstechnica.com)
  • 256 325

    Excel Never Dies (www.notboring.co)
  • 60 105

    Launch HN: Bristle (YC W21) – At-home microbiome test to improve oral health
  • 286 307

    When did writing in major newspapers become so bad? (mleverything.substack.com)
  • 107 202

    FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android (email.faircode.eu)
  • 9 108

    An Introduction to ASCII Ray Marching (ch-st.de)
  • 25 79

    Disposable paper dresses were a trend in the 1960s (timeline.com)
  • 27 74

    European Super Grid (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 1 30

    The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (arstechnica.com)
  • 6 40

    Show HN: COMPOST – A DWeb-native magazine about the digital commons (one.compost.digital)
  • 57 49

    React Common Tools and Practices: State Management Overview (react-community-tools-practices-cheatsheet.netlify.app)
  • 79 64

    Apple TV+ announces programming partnership with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai (www.apple.com)
  • 5 152

    The Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning (deeplearningmath.org)
  • 20 66

    Launch HN: Runops (YC W21) – A better cloud shell for production apps
  • 417 416

    Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable (www.reuters.com)
  • 141 253

    Google suffers from a digital petro curse (world.hey.com)
  • 10 14

    Negotiate Your Dang Salary (critter.blog)
  • 10 39

    Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service (github.com)
  • 13 84

    ArmorPaint: An open source physically-based texture painting software (armorpaint.org)
  • 63 222

    TLA+ (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 112 37

    A deep-dive into the future of subscription gaming (www.eurogamer.net)
  • 37 33

    Multinationals face pressure to relocate headquarters to Saudi Arabia (www.ft.com)
  • OneSignal Is Hiring Engineers in California, New York, Texas, and the UK (onesignal.com)
  • 56 384

    Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life (avinayak.github.io)
  • 233 104

    Julia: A Post-Mortem (chrisvoncsefalvay.com)
  • 113 169

    Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007) (fliptomato.wordpress.com)
  • 81 87

    Ask HN: Can you switch to a programming career despite nearing 40?
  • 116 58

    Google advised mental health care when workers complained about racism, sexism (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 44 67

    Conways Game of Life on Blockchain (github.com)
  • 200 58

    The puzzle of Europe (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
  • 537 492

    Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 27 33

    Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to compl (www.theverge.com)
  • 15 45

    Show HN: I made a parser visualizer using manim (github.com)
  • 16 75

    Programming Paradigms, Turing Completeness and Computational Thinking (2020) (programming-journal.org)
  • 171 187

    Best practices can slow your application down (stackoverflow.blog)
  • 182 90

    US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
  • 29 41

    Book Banning in an Age of Amazon (abigailshrier.substack.com)
  • 291 340

    The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (arstechnica.com)
  • 46 179

    Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect (arxiv.org)
  • 68 122

    Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 61 115

    Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words (bigthink.com)
  • 26 35

    Onyx BOOX Nova3 Color, the first color ereader supports writing (www.boox.com)
  • 42 273

    Game Theory (2007) (oyc.yale.edu)
  • 34 60

    The Mac Pro – A Year in the Studio (www.lunaranimation.com)
  • 16 28

    Dwelling on Roads Not Taken Can Create Bumps at Work (journals.aom.org)
  • 642 640

    Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (bloodknife.com)
  • 20 47

    The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto (1991) (www.cantrip.org)
  • 25 25

    Quantum mechanics isn’t weird, we’re just too big [video] (www.youtube.com)