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Thursday, 16 September 2021

• Walkman Archive
  (walkman-archive.com) Discuss

• China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
  (nature.com) Discuss

• Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co
  (typography.com) Discuss

• Newsom Signs SB 9 and SB 10, ending single family zoning in California
  (gov.ca.gov) Discuss

• Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (2013)
  (files.righto.com) Discuss

• Facebook bans German anti-lockdown accounts under new ‘social harm’ policy
  (marketwatch.com) Discuss

• How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails
  (blog.testdouble.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Violence is the last refuge of incompetence
  (techref.massmind.org) Discuss

• You Don't Need to Burn Off Your Fingertips
  (troyhunt.com) Discuss

• Golang: Code of Conduct Updates
  (go.dev) Discuss

• Tracking space debris is a growing business
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
  (shitlassian.com) Discuss

• Windows 11: Just say no
  (computerworld.com) Discuss

• DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal
  (npr.org) Discuss

• Sir Clive Sinclair has died
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• The Perils of an .xyz Domain
  (spotvirtual.com) Discuss

• Don't insult me with your pricing
  (derrickreimer.com) Discuss

• Ambition (YC W14) is hiring a head of revenue enablement
  (ambition.com) Discuss

• Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community
  (arxiv.org) Discuss

• Cloud Infrastructure as SQL
  (iasql.com) Discuss

• The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing
  (microfounder.com) Discuss

• The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video]
  (pagetable.com) Discuss

• NIH-funded research to address rising male infertility
  (news.cornell.edu) Discuss

• Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M
  (alternativeto.net) Discuss

• Principles for Good Code (2015)
  (dein.fr) Discuss

• Glass – Photo sharing app and community
  (glass.photo) Discuss

• Do adults need tetanus booster shots?
  (health.harvard.edu) Discuss

• AP Computer Science Tips
  (albert.io) Discuss

• Sushi and the Founding Murder
  (readthegeneralist.com) Discuss

• The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
  (mullvad.net) Discuss

• Use of eBPF in CPU Scheduler
  (linuxplumbersconf.org) Discuss

• Computing Discrete Logarithms [pdf]
  (eprint.iacr.org) Discuss

• A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
  (search.marginalia.nu) Discuss

• ChowJS: An AOT JavaScript engine for game consoles
  (mp2.dk) Discuss

• Algofi (YC S21) Is Hiring
  (workatastartup.com) Discuss

• Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M
  (bloombergquint.com) Discuss

• Deno 1.14
  (deno.com) Discuss

• Instagram Ruined Photography for Me
  (alvar.dev) Discuss

• Countries that have accepted the World Passport
  (worldservice.org) Discuss

• SSC Engine: Golang Front End Components
  (ssceng.codes) Discuss

• Show HN: Kizie – Twitter for web, reimagined
  (kizie.co) Discuss

• Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
  (kotaku.com) Discuss

• 'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss
  (rfi.fr) Discuss

• Firefox UI is incredibly frustrating,so I made it like the old days of Chrome
  (facechance.com) Discuss

• Charrette
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Using the FreeBSD Rack TCP Stack
  (klarasystems.com) Discuss

• Ledger of Harms
  (ledger.humanetech.com) Discuss

• Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring in London
  (notion.so) Discuss

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

• Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020)
  (iism.org) Discuss

• New Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Algae-Based Way to Fight Water Pollution
  (shooliniuniversity.com) Discuss

• India’s caste system remains entrenched, 75 years after independence
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKs
  (plaid.com) Discuss

• Where is the scrutiny over FDA’s role in the overdose epidemic?
  (inquirer.com) Discuss

• Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire (2018)
  (daily.jstor.org) Discuss

• Losing Covid-19 antibody immunity after six months after Pfizer vaccine
  (thedaily.case.edu) Discuss

• Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
  (cbc.ca) Discuss

• Useful Spy Books
  (berthub.eu) Discuss

• Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal
  (gizmodo.com) Discuss

• Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• Donate to the Internet Archive
  (archive.org) Discuss

• DeepSource (YC W20) Is Looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead (Bangalore)
  (careers.deepsource.io) Discuss

• Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings
  (techdirt.com) Discuss

• Competition Is For Losers
  (lrb.co.uk) Discuss

• Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification
  (geneva.cs.umd.edu) Discuss

• Drum Juggling
  (thekidshouldseethis.com) Discuss

• Why satellites are manufactured in clean rooms
  (ohb.de) Discuss

• Duolingo: The Antithesis to the Bazaar
  (nibnalin.me) Discuss

• GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
  (autonews.com) Discuss

• A Tour of the Oil Language
  (oilshell.org) Discuss

• Will Xi Move on Taiwan?
  (asia.nikkei.com) Discuss

• Home Assistant – open-source home automation
  (home-assistant.io) Discuss

• Intensifying Seismic Crisis at La Palma Volcano: Mega-Tsunami Potential
  (electroverse.net) Discuss

• Facebook under fire over secret teen research
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• Founder of $90M cryptocurrency hedge fund sentenced to seven years in prison
  (justice.gov) Discuss

• Australia, the US and UK to announce landmark new defence pact
  (smh.com.au) Discuss

• Linux Sucks 2021 – The End of Linux Is Nigh [video]
  (lunduke.locals.com) Discuss

• Why Authorization Is Hard
  (osohq.com) Discuss

• North Korean missiles land in Japan EEZ as nuclear threat grows
  (japantimes.co.jp) Discuss

• I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
  (habr.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Paper to HTML Converter
  (papertohtml.org) Discuss

• Considerations in boosting Covid-19 vaccine immune responses
  (thelancet.com) Discuss

• Nikon's 2021 Photomicrography Competition Winners
  (nikonsmallworld.com) Discuss

• Find engineering roles at over 800 YC-funded startups
  (ycombinator.com) Discuss

• The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot
  (openculture.com) Discuss

• Show HN: NFC Passport/ID for remote user registration
  (passportreader.app) Discuss

• HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot
  (developer.mozilla.org) Discuss

• Driving payment card adoption with deeplinks, applinks, long cards, and autofill
  (kunle.app) Discuss

• Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
  (justice.gov) Discuss

• Automatic cipher suite ordering in Go’s crypto/tls
  (go.dev) Discuss

• The Crime of Curiosity
  (piratewires.com) Discuss

• Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
  (ons.gov.uk) Discuss

• H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
  (h3geo.org) Discuss

• Pine64 September Update: Hurdles and Successes
  (pine64.org) Discuss

• How much faster is Java 17?
  (optaplanner.org) Discuss

• A dive into the world of MS-DOS viruses (2019)
  (blog.benjojo.co.uk) Discuss

• COBOL- still standing the test of time
  (blog.microfocus.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
  (replay.io) Discuss

• Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow
  (meta.stackoverflow.com) Discuss

• Millennials accuse Baby Boomers of ruining the economy
  (humans.media) Discuss

• Urban Dictionary: Sherlocked
  (urbandictionary.com) Discuss

• Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here's What's at Stake
  (npr.org) Discuss

• QuestDB (time-series database) is hiring engineers and dev rel
  (questdb.io) Discuss

• Knuth and Plass line-breaking Revisited
  (defoe.sourceforge.net) Discuss

• PostgreSQL 15: default permissions for everyone is now restricted to db owner
  (depesz.com) Discuss

• EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web
  (httptoolkit.tech) Discuss

• California May Be the First State to Legislate Amazon Warehouse Conditions
  (themarkup.org) Discuss

• What's cooking on Sourcehut? September 2021
  (sourcehut.org) Discuss

• Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
  (inputmag.com) Discuss

• Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)
  (greenharbor.com) Discuss

• Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024
  (interestingengineering.com) Discuss

• Exploring 120 Years of Timezones
  (blog.scottlogic.com) Discuss

• Billions of Code Name Permutations in 32 bits
  (nullprogram.com) Discuss

• Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American
  (erichgrunewald.com) Discuss

• Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics
  (scientificamerican.com) Discuss

• The WOPRS Organization Model
  (jpreston.xyz) Discuss

Tuesday, 14 September 2021

• Dynamic Queries in Ecto (Elixir Lang)
  (bartoszgorka.com) Discuss

• Pay Transparency Is Coming
  (businessinsider.com) Discuss

• Modern snakes evolved from few survivors of dino-killing asteroid
  (miragenews.com) Discuss

• Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed
  (gitlab.com) Discuss

• OpenBSD's Pledge and Unveil from Python
  (nullprogram.com) Discuss

• AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions
  (awsteele.com) Discuss