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Sunday, 24 January 2021

• Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]
  (arxiv.org) Discuss

• Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison
  (mathoverflow.net) Discuss

• 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated
  (covidvaxcount.live) Discuss

• Krita 4.4.2 Released
  (krita.org) Discuss

• Papercraft Models of Computers
  (rockybergen.com) Discuss

• Universal basic income doesn’t impact worker productivity
  (academictimes.com) Discuss

• WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)
  (mit.edu) Discuss

• Hacking Habit Development with iOS Shortcuts
  (kylewill.blog) Discuss

• The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)
  (catonmat.net) Discuss

• The RustyHermit Unikernel
  (rust-osdev.com) Discuss

• Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• San Francisco is one of CA’s most conservative cities – when it comes to housing
  (sfchronicle.com) Discuss

• Proof of X
  (julian.digital) Discuss

• Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector
  (asia.nikkei.com) Discuss

• Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data
  (vice.com) Discuss

• Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one
  (linkedin.com) Discuss

• A new newsletter on database engines, streaming systems, query planning
  (scattered-thoughts.net) Discuss

• Show HN: CVservant: CV Creator for Academic Types
  (CVservant.com) Discuss

• Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
  (infosec-handbook.eu) Discuss

• Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year
  (pnas.org) Discuss

• Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
  (weforum.org) Discuss

• Racket Compiler and Runtime Status
  (blog.racket-lang.org) Discuss

• SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• Ghost cities and abandoned areas with a declining population
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black
  (japantoday.com) Discuss

• Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email
  (delta.chat) Discuss

• Show HN: Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world
  (sokyokuban.com) Discuss

• Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate
  (france24.com) Discuss

• A 10B Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece
  (micro-pano.com) Discuss

• Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
  (daringfireball.net) Discuss

• Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, then sold them to pharma
  (khn.org) Discuss

• Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
  (news.osu.edu) Discuss

• MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers
  (hackaday.com) Discuss

• Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
  (wiki.csswg.org) Discuss

• In southeastern Colorado, robots disarm WWII-era chemical weapons (2017)
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• Turning desalination waste into a useful resource
  (news.mit.edu) Discuss

• Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer
  (phys.org) Discuss

• Introduction: User's Guide to Empire (1991)
  (empire.cx) Discuss

• Welcome to Metropica, a Supposed City of the Future (2019)
  (vice.com) Discuss

• Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Interview with Christine Darden – NASA engineer who’s a mathematician at heart
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• In California, a journey to the end of the road: the Salton Sea
  (ft.com) Discuss

• Godiva Chocolates to close all 128 North American stores due to Covid pandemic
  (abc13.com) Discuss

• SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world
  (asia.nikkei.com) Discuss

Saturday, 23 January 2021

• 42 (YC W14) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (Remote) – TypeScript or Python/Spark
  (jobs.42.engineering) Discuss

• Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by mail on unionization
  (outkick.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
  (gutensearch.com) Discuss

• First portrait of mysterious Denisovans drawn from DNA (2019)
  (nature.com) Discuss

• The Origin of Names (2015)
  (web.pdx.edu) Discuss

• Visual Sentence Composer for Japanese
  (japanesecomplete.com) Discuss

• Pip has dropped support for Python 2
  (pip.pypa.io) Discuss

• Curve.fi is hiring Python (Vyper) dev and QA (py.test). Math knowledge is and+
  (curve.fi) Discuss

• Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
  (pagely.com) Discuss

• Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
  (thetimes.co.uk) Discuss

• Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
  (scientificamerican.com) Discuss

• Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
  (chriskiehl.com) Discuss

• How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
  (vinography.com) Discuss

• MkLinux
  (mklinux.org) Discuss

• FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests
  (spectrum.ieee.org) Discuss

• For the First Time in 200 Years, a New Blue Pigment Is Up for Sale
  (smithsonianmag.com) Discuss

• Cryptocurreny crime is way ahead of regulators and law enforcement
  (fnlondon.com) Discuss

• Site.js: Small Web construction set
  (sitejs.org) Discuss

• Partial List of Software Patents (1992)
  (textfiles.com) Discuss

• Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
  (bodhi.fedoraproject.org) Discuss

• Malware found on laptops given out by government
  (bbc.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor
  (filmulator.org) Discuss

• Ask HN: Is low level progarmming job more satisfying?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• DrScheme in Space
  (parentheticallyspeaking.org) Discuss

• I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them
  (blog.jmdawson.co.uk) Discuss

• Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests
  (netblocks.org) Discuss

• Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
  (visualstudiomagazine.com) Discuss

• Vole.wtf
  (vole.wtf) Discuss

• Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC?
  (jmmv.dev) Discuss

• The team shaking up climate models
  (csmonitor.com) Discuss

• Implementing Raft's Leader Election in Rust
  (laurocaetano.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Traindown – A language to help athletes express their training
  (traindown.com) Discuss

• Flattery-Driven Open-Source
  (ppinera.es) Discuss

• Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
  (sponsor.ajay.app) Discuss

• VisualAge for Java 1.0 – Let the Future Begin (1997)
  (tug.ca) Discuss

• You can get banned from Facebook – permanently. This is how
  (elliott.org) Discuss

• Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
  (wayne.lorentz.me) Discuss

• The Boston Globe’s Fresh Start Initiative
  (bostonglobe.com) Discuss

• Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
  (jvns.ca) Discuss

• Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
  (scientificamerican.com) Discuss

• Glenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’
  (reason.com) Discuss

• Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
  (nbloom.people.stanford.edu) Discuss

• Rollerball Pens of 2021
  (unsharpen.com) Discuss

• FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
  (wusa9.com) Discuss

• Cache Management Lessons Learned
  (symas.com) Discuss

• How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
  (jvns.ca) Discuss

• Teleguard: Swiss Made Safe Messaging
  (teleguard.com) Discuss

• Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared to 100UL
  (avweb.com) Discuss

• Microsoft same-day reversal on Xbox Live Gold price doubling
  (windowscentral.com) Discuss

• Build a salary with GitHub Sponsors
  (onlysponsors.dev) Discuss

• Irma: Open-source, attribute based credentials
  (irma.app) Discuss

• But how, exactly, do databases use mmap?
  (brunocalza.me) Discuss

• Please don't say just hello in chat
  (nohello.net) Discuss

• Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks (2019)
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• The International Tempest over the World’s Most Famous Teapot
  (thewalrus.ca) Discuss

• Java 1.0 Turns 25
  (infoq.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Supercharge.dev – Accelerated Development in React/Next.js
  (supercharge.dev) Discuss

• The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Product Designer
  (themuse.com) Discuss

• Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required
  (eurekalert.org) Discuss

• Italy Blocks Users on TikTok After 10-Year-Old Girl Died in a Blackout Challenge
  (relayvibes.co) Discuss

• Could giant SPACs be next?
  (techcrunch.com) Discuss

• Open Positions
  (freebsdfoundation.org) Discuss

• Raspberry Pi as x2go “thin” client
  (multi-seat.com) Discuss

• Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
  (lincoln.metacannon.net) Discuss

• JavaSoft ships Java 1.0 (1996)
  (web.archive.org) Discuss

Friday, 22 January 2021

• Rolling Stone seeks 'thought leaders' willing to pay $2k to write for them
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)
  (unix.stackexchange.com) Discuss

• Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring to Make Developers More Productive (Remote, UTC ± 3h)
  (raycast.com) Discuss

• QSCM – A Tiny Bootstrapped Scheme
  (c9x.me) Discuss

• Gandi – We Under DDoS
  (status.gandi.net) Discuss