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Monday, 21 June 2021

• Ask HN: How to learn proper Systems Programming?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Fluid Paint
  (david.li) Discuss

• JPEG XL
  (jpegxl.info) Discuss

Sunday, 20 June 2021

• OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel without trackers or ads
  (organicmaps.app) Discuss

• Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge (2017)
  (blogs.windows.com) Discuss

• Upgrading Precursor’s TRNG
  (bunniestudios.com) Discuss

• Enthusiastic amateurs advance science as they hunt for exotic mushrooms
  (npr.org) Discuss

• Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server
  (hannahtech.co) Discuss

• What it was like to be peer reviewed in the 1860s (2017)
  (physicstoday.scitation.org) Discuss

• New York congressman puts forward federal right-to-repair bill
  (theregister.com) Discuss

• The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack
  (bbc.com) Discuss

• Policies that make the poor less poor
  (eclogiselle.com) Discuss

• Finding the Bottom Turtle
  (blog.dave.tf) Discuss

• Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
  (vice.com) Discuss

• USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
  (news.usc.edu) Discuss

• Free Stuff for Developers
  (freestuff.dev) Discuss

• Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split
  (mainichi.jp) Discuss

• HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swapping
  (johann.wang) Discuss

• Mindat.org, the largest open database of minerals, rocks, and meteorites
  (mindat.org) Discuss

• Show HN: Land 10 interviews a month with 0 effort
  (joinrelentless.com) Discuss

• Curcumin: A bioavailable blocker of TNF and other pro-inflammatory biomarkers (2013)
  (ncbi.nlm.nih) Discuss

• Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind
  (khn.org) Discuss

• Gramps – Free Genealogy Software
  (gramps-project.org) Discuss

• What Is Going on at Yale Law School?
  (newyorker.com) Discuss

• Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  (zkp.science) Discuss

• Constraints (1981) [pdf]
  (dspace.mit.edu) Discuss

• Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible
  (discourse.nixos.org) Discuss

• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
  (joshworth.com) Discuss

• A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years
  (groups.io) Discuss

• Our journey from office-centric to remote-first
  (docker.com) Discuss

• Father's Day (2008)
  (davidgodman.org) Discuss

• Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Fly.io (YC W20) Is Hiring Site Reliability Engineers
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research
  (scientificamerican.com) Discuss

• Watchy: Open-source E-Paper Watch with ESP32
  (watchy.sqfmi.com) Discuss

• Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy
  (matecdev.com) Discuss

• LDtk: A modern and open-source 2D level editor
  (deepnight.itch.io) Discuss

• Show HN: AES67 Stream Monitor – An app to monitor audio over IP streams
  (aes67.app) Discuss

• My performance benchmarking workflow
  (blog.vmsplice.net) Discuss

• Common Lisp Books
  (lisp-lang.org) Discuss

• 4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity
  (theatlantic.com) Discuss

• Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
  (medrxiv.org) Discuss

• Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700
  (spectrum.ieee.org) Discuss

• Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?
  (leetcode.com) Discuss

• Ten Problems for Artificial Intelligence in the 2020s
  (tenproblems.com) Discuss

• Do software engineers have leverage?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
  (fakenous.net) Discuss

• Are continuous glucose monitors a waste of time for people without diabetes?
  (peterattiamd.com) Discuss

• Major companies ask Colorado residents not to apply for remote positions
  (axios.com) Discuss

• HireArt (YC W12) Is Hiring a VP of Finance
  (hireart.com) Discuss

• Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (2010)
  (zsync.moria.org.uk) Discuss

• Quick Analysis for the SSID Format String Bug
  (blog.chichou.me) Discuss

• Cyber-heists: The methods and menace of the new bank robbers
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism
  (blog.evjang.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger
  (share.streamlit.io) Discuss

• MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection
  (bbc.com) Discuss

• Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk (2013)
  (robohub.org) Discuss

• AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
  (altstore.io) Discuss

• Internet in a Box
  (internet-in-a-box.org) Discuss

• Ransomware attack payments might be tax deductible, says US government
  (fox2detroit.com) Discuss

• Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1
  (rockylinux.org) Discuss

• How hard did Steve Jobs work?
  (quora.com) Discuss

Saturday, 19 June 2021

• Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it
  (blog.viktomas.com) Discuss

• Baby Boom or Bust?
  (historytoday.com) Discuss

• A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna
  (blogs.bl.uk) Discuss

• More Husband Than Female
  (lrb.co.uk) Discuss

• Haunting Photos Reveal an Abandoned Town of Disneyesque Castles
  (architecturaldigest.com) Discuss

• The “API Mandate” memo at Amazon
  (chrislaing.net) Discuss

• The EU: Made in America
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Joining CSV and JSON data with an in-memory SQLite database
  (simonwillison.net) Discuss

• Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface
  (renoise.com) Discuss

• Why Covid-19 may now feel like a 'bad cold' – with headache, runny nose
  (cbc.ca) Discuss

• Korea revokes approvals for 1,700 communication equipment, devices
  (koreaherald.com) Discuss

• Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, Then Retracts Post
  (tomshardware.com) Discuss

• A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone
  (9to5mac.com) Discuss

• Community Phone Company (YC W19) Is Hiring
  (ycombinator.com) Discuss

• How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It
  (thezerohack.com) Discuss

• Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment
  (meta.wikimedia.org) Discuss

• Taxes Are for the Little People
  (pluralistic.net) Discuss

• Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
  (journals.lww.com) Discuss

• SafetyWing (YC W18) is hiring a fullstack developer
  (notion.so) Discuss

• ‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Audi will halt new gas and diesel cars by 2026 – Drive Tesla Canada
  (driveteslacanada.ca) Discuss

• Uxn – Virtual AV Computer
  (llllllll.co) Discuss

• John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ Was Supposed to Be a Warning. We Didn’t Heed It
  (theringer.com) Discuss

• Subset Vector Quantiser
  (rowetel.com) Discuss

• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC startups. AMA
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• An unwanted update to your Google Account
  (roboleary.net) Discuss

• Upcoming Changes for Some US Businesses
  (newsroom.paypal-corp.com) Discuss

• EventBus 3.1 with plain Java support
  (greenrobot.org) Discuss

• Coober Pedy, the Australian mining town where residents live underground (2020)
  (businessinsider.com) Discuss

• Declining trust in government is denting democracy (2017)
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021
  (adamcadre.ac) Discuss

• Taking students from schematic to silicon in one semester (2018) [pdf]
  (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) Discuss

• Show HN: An annotation tool for ML and NLP
  (getmarkup.com) Discuss

• Casu Martzu
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Evolution of the Dad
  (knowablemagazine.org) Discuss

• Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar
  (getradar.co) Discuss

• Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
  (nature.com) Discuss

• Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
  (morrick.me) Discuss

• North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
  (ij.org) Discuss

• Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
  (robert.ocallahan.org) Discuss

• Avenue (YC W21) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in NYC (TypeScript, Node, React)
  (ycombinator.com) Discuss

• JPEG XL would be Turing-complete (via Rule 110)
  (dbohdan.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• AMD Is Working on Its Own Hybrid x86 CPU: Patent Filing
  (extremetech.com) Discuss

• Learning to love a rigid and inflexible language
  (devblog.blackberry.com) Discuss

• Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• Inside The Tombs of Saqqara
  (smithsonianmag.com) Discuss