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  • 2 5

    Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?
  • 3 10

    My Second Brain – Zettelkasten (scottspence.com)
  • 0 3

    Big Tech is America’s new railroad problem (2019) (www.ft.com)
  • 36 129

    A new way for Google to kill your SaaS startup (gomox.medium.com)
  • 0 6

    Code Budgets (danielbmarkham.com)
  • 10 19

    Program Eloquence Considered Harmful (tilde.team)
  • 2 31

    Do we have negative prime numbers? (math.stackexchange.com)
  •   7

    Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases (www.vice.com)
  • 54 67

    How a senior journalist got scammed by a fake job offer from “Harvard” (www.ndtv.com)
  • 48 26

    The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
  • 39 72

    The Problem with Gradle (www.bruceeckel.com)
  • 0 9

    Meta-design: a manifesto for end-user development (2004) [pdf] (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
  • 10 11

    Ask HN: Best way to learn computational biology/immunology?
  • 3 29

    WontFix: Chromium forcing its own title bar and borders on Linux (bugs.chromium.org)
  •   6

    Trumper (Twitter Alternative) (trumper-2021.web.app)
  • 7 24

    How China’s State-Sponsored Social Networks Control Misinformation–and Dissent (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 1 6

    Predicting visible flicker in temporally changing images (2020) [pdf] (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring for Software Engs (FT and Co-Op) & Sales (jobs.lever.co)
  • 2 17

    Implementing cross-process locks (pijul.org)
  • 56 214

    Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month (grimminck.medium.com)
  • 19 42

    Limiting Private API Availability in Chromium (blog.chromium.org)
  • 45 96

    The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor (medium.com)
  •   11

    The Poverty of Identity Politics (blog.ecologicalcitizen.net)
  • 0 11

    Norway investigates deaths associated with BioNTec/Pfizer vaccine in elderly (legemiddelverket.no)
  • 20 73

    The difference between note-taking and note-making (nesslabs.com)
  • 0 9

    What Is a Telegram Bot? Reasons to Use Bot for Telegram (botpenguin.com)
  • 2 53

    Hardware for Deep Learning. Part 4: ASIC (blog.inten.to)
  • 7 42

    Airbyte: Simple and extensible open-source EL(T) (github.com)
  • 11 171

    Computer System Engineering (MIT OCW) (ocw.mit.edu)
  • 31 90

    New ‘Action Roguelike’ C++ Project on GitHub (www.tomlooman.com)
  • 41 85

    Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworks (mithril.js.org)
  • 15 70

    .NET NanoFramework (www.nanoframework.net)
  • 31 175

    How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020) (www.samueltaylor.org)
  • 22 41

    Why is signal servers using Java and not Erlang
  • 18 129

    Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway (mauricio.github.io)
  • 10 18

    Kinx: A scripting language for people who want C-like syntax (github.com)
  • 3 19

    Elevated biomarker related to blood vessel damage in children with SARS-CoV-2 (www.chop.edu)
  • 0 8

    The In-the-Wild Series (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
  • 70 76

    Ensuring a transparent, thorough investigation of Covid-19’s origin (www.state.gov)
  • 58 103

    Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement (arstechnica.com)
  • 126 330

    Maximizing Developer Effectiveness (martinfowler.com)
  •   18

    New coronavirus variants could cause more re-infections, require vaccine updates (www.sciencemag.org)
  • OneSignal (Messaging and Push Notification APIs) is hiring a back end engineer (onesignal.com)
  • 30 20

    The sources of misinformation that thrived in Parler (anonymousdata.medium.com)
  • 14 31

    Show HN: Karma, a CLI-first dev gamification engine (www.getkarma.dev)
  • 22 36

    Parler CEO John Matze, family forced into hiding over death threats (www.foxnews.com)
  • 0 19

    How to Analyze Volume Profiles with Python (metaminh.medium.com)
  • 175 124

    Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL? (stackoverflow.blog)
  • 14 69

    Exploring Swap on FreeBSD (klarasystems.com)
  • 83 122

    The surprisingly difficult problem of user-defined order in SQL (begriffs.com)
  • 38 56

    NRA Declares Bankruptcy (www.nytimes.com)
  • 34 151

    Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water (www.theguardian.com)
  • 338 294

    Rust is a hard way to make a web API (macwright.com)
  • 27 60

    Jeffrey Epsteins Little Black-Book Unredacted [pdf] (spidercatweb.blog)
  • 27 63

    Facebook Reinstates Trump's Account (www.facebook.com)
  • 143 150

    State of JavaScript 2020 (2020.stateofjs.com)
  • 104 229

    English as She Is Spoke (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 227 251

    Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? (ziglang.org)
  • 10 56

    libsignal-client – a Signal protocol implementation in Rust (github.com)
  • 52 54

    Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination (www.bmj.com)
  • 5 58

    Implementing FastAPI Services – Abstraction and Separation of Concerns (camillovisini.com)
  • 92 114

    Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte (www.theregister.com)
  • 84 122

    Apple fails to overturn VirnetX patent verdict, could owe over $1.1B (www.reuters.com)
  • 21 69

    WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends to switch to Signal (teddit.net)
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  • 128 127

    Lua, a Misunderstood Language (andregarzia.com)
  • 14 102

    Bugtraq: BugTraq Shutdown (seclists.org)
  • 86 112

    The Newton hypothesis: Is science done by a small elite? (nintil.com)
  • 105 99

    Show HN: Forgo.js – a 4kb React alternative based on plain JS and DOM APIs (forgojs.org)
  • Tremendous (YC W11) Is Hiring Rails Engineers – Remote OK (angel.co)
  • 38 142

    Graphics Programming Black Book (1997) (github.com)
  • 363 417

    WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash (p.dw.com)
  • 42 299

    Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1 (secret.club)
  • 40 65

    Giving More Time for Our Recent Update (blog.whatsapp.com)
  • 349 332

    Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union (www.npr.org)
  • 11 29

    Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
  • 56 119

    Establishment of a closed artificial ecosystem to ensure human survival on moon (www.biorxiv.org)
  • 3 48

    The Games That Weren’t (retroarcadia.blog)
  • 47 122

    The State of VR on Linux (boilingsteam.com)
  • 15 36

    WhatsApp delays privacy changes amid a backlash and user exodus (www.nytimes.com)
  • 49 158

    Fast Commits for Ext4 (lwn.net)
  • 0 6

    Interview With James Park and the Story of FitBit (2020) (raw.githubusercontent.com)
  • 18 39

    Satran Satellite Tracking Antenna (www.danaco.se)
  • 57 97

    Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch (www.logicalclocks.com)
  • 23 68

    January Update: Happy New Gear (www.pine64.org)
  • 31 160

    Clojure Core (blog.fogus.me)
  • 76 102

    Lua and Python (2020) (lwn.net)
  • 11 20

    It’s not Jung’s, it’s mine (lrb.co.uk)
  • 1 9

    Identity Aware Sockets – zero trust (www.mysocket.io)
  • 18 48

    CVE-2021-24122 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure (mail-archives.apache.org)
  • 22 110

    macOS malware used run-only AppleScripts to avoid detection for five years (www.zdnet.com)
  • 38 38

    Higher coffee intake may be linked to lower prostate cancer risk (www.bmj.com)
  • 159 1232

    Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
  • 25 108

    Microsoft Space Simulator (Or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box) (www.filfre.net)
  • 21 25

    Why banning 'harmful' online speech is a slippery slope (theweek.com)
  • 80 150

    Uganda's internet Shutdown (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 103 485

    Be My Eyes (www.bemyeyes.com)
  • 67 91

    68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal (community.signalusers.org)
  • 691 876

    Signal is having technical difficulties (status.signal.org)
  • 214 157

    Bumble S-1 (www.sec.gov)
  • 72 143

    Our Dumb Security Questionnaire (hangar.tech)
  • 73 45

    An Engineering Argument for Basic Income (scottsantens.com)
  • 65 55

    Protocol for a U.S. Nuclear Strike (www.wagingpeace.org)
  • 28 13

    The Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Dream Is Dead (marker.medium.com)
  • TrueVault (YC W14) Is Hiring a Content Writer (Full-Time, Contract) (www.workatastartup.com)
  • 197 269

    The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker (www.wired.com)
  • 83 174

    Encoding Data in Dubstep Drops (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
  • 8 23

    Running MatterMost as a Unikernel (nanovms.com)
  • 71 86

    Ask HN: Is Signal Down?
  • 107 194

    My preferred .NET console stack (www.devlead.se)
  • 64 95

    Dns.Watch: Public DNS Servers (dns.watch)
  •   44

    Facebook is moderating posts about Signal
  • 13 17

    Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans (apnews.com)
  • 52 66

    Night.fm (night.fm)
  •   18

    Google says it’s closing the Fitbit acquisition–uh, without DOJ approval? (arstechnica.com)
  • 39 60

    Small modular nuclear reactors may help polluting industries reduce emissions (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 33 13

    Terminal Multiplexers (www.linuxcommand.org)
  • 52 56

    Show HN: Supernotes – Embeddable Markdown note-cards (supernotes.app)
  • 60 280

    How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state (labs.detectify.com)
  • 181 192

    AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks (www.anandtech.com)
  • 72 155

    Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu (forum.odroid.com)
  • 171 318

    Why cancer cells waste so much energy (news.mit.edu)
  • 83 67

    Books helped South African man overcome homelessness (www.one.org)
  •   12

    German court halts criminal proceedings against former VW CEO (www.reuters.com)
  • 19 56

    Impact of travel and circadian disruption on athletic performance (www.nature.com)
  • 1 11

    The Bit Short: Inside Crypto's Doomsday Machine (crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com)
  • 61 40

    Swedish bankers face identity crisis over digital currency plans (www.reuters.com)
  • 70 45

    Google looks at pulling all or part of its search engine from Australia (www.crikey.com.au)
  • Notabene (YC S20) Is Hiring a Front End and Back End/DevOps (notabene.id)
  • 82 193

    StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails (docs.stimulusreflex.com)
  • 23 28

    A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots (github.com)
  • 61 105

    Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets (www.heartrhythmjournal.com)
  • 370 591

    Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
  • 156 161

    How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome (vivaldi.com)
  • 23 64

    InfiniCache: In-memory cache that is built atop ephemeral serverless functions (github.com)
  • 89 94

    Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer (www.bbc.com)
  • 24 142

    Rebuilding the spellchecker (zverok.github.io)
  • 98 158

    A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (2017) (sonicscoop.com)
  •   16

    IPv4 Flag Day (ipv4flagday.net)
  • 248 263

    The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine (crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com)
  • 11 62

    Not a Gentleman: The Irish Buddhist (drb.ie)
  • 92 136

    Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (www.youtube.com)
  • 15 29

    Insurrections, Ancient and Modern (and Also Meet the Academicats) (acoup.blog)
  • 448 481

    New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst (www.macrumors.com)
  • 8 26

    Radiance – Database of VR Art (www.radiancevr.co)
  • 68 80

    Technical issue resolved after ‘150k police records lost’ (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 127 220

    The Spoon Theory (2003) (butyoudontlooksick.com)
  • 2 29

    Dancing with Systems (donellameadows.org)
  • 1 6

    End-to-End Arguments in System Design (1984) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
  • Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in London (www.notion.so)
  • 21 131

    Donut.c Without a Math Library (www.a1k0n.net)
  • 30 133

    NTFS Corruption on Win10 (twitter.com)
  • 65 18

    Ask HN: What was your favorite website from the 1990s?
  • 34 87

    Request for Startups (evaz.substack.com)
  • 6 37

    Giving social networking back to you – Mastodon (joinmastodon.org)
  • 3 63

    Bélády's Anomaly (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 595 144

    Why can't I write code inside my browser? (tomcritchlow.com)
  • 26 91

    The State of IPv6 support on the Tor network (blog.torproject.org)
  • 29 42

    The Greatest Books of All Time (thegreatestbooks.org)
  • 9 18

    Users Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook (themarkup.org)
  • 28 192

    Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs (github.com)
  • 12 11

    Show HN: Composability of software components is the biggest benefit of K8s (lab.computer)
  • 6 86

    Time Management by Randy Pausch [pdf] (www.cs.virginia.edu)
  • 52 33

    The bunker builders preparing for doomsday (www.bbc.com)
  • 56 166

    Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009) (ignorethecode.net)
  • 0 7

    Goodbye Gutwhale (2020) (stuffedwomb.at)
  • 110 368

    Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World (smist08.wordpress.com)
  • 8 50

    William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020) (aeon.co)
  • 4 46

    An Introduction to the Internet of Materials (dl.acm.org)
  • 87 132

    Debian 11 “bullseye” freeze started (lists.debian.org)
  • 85 168

    Hungry men exposed to blue light are sensitive to Earth's magnetic field (2019) (journals.plos.org)
  • 13 31

    Mini-Microsoft (minimsft.blogspot.com)
  • 17 175

    Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages (www.ritsumei.ac.jp)
  • 250 312

    Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
  • 1 11

    The Role-Profiles Pattern Across Infrastructure as Code (medium.com)
  • 10 80

    Beating Up on Qsort (2019) (travisdowns.github.io)