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Sunday, 07 March 2021

• People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up – Or Keep Talking – Science Confirms
  (scientificamerican.com) Discuss

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

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

• Game Theory – Open Yale Courses
  (oyc.yale.edu) Discuss

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

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

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

• Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
  (text.npr.org) Discuss

• A Solution to the RWP for Exam 1 – Stealing Power (2006)
  (users.physics.unc.edu) Discuss

• What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network?
  (thingsquare.com) Discuss

• The Kilobyte’s Gambit
  (vole.wtf) Discuss

• UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)
  (dailybruin.com) Discuss

• Solugen (YC W17) is hiring a director of marketing
  (workatastartup.com) Discuss

• Review: The Book of Why
  (tachy.org) Discuss

• Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
  (counter.dev) Discuss

• Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
  (bbc.com) Discuss

• The Wasting of the Evangelical Mind
  (newyorker.com) Discuss

• Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
  (roscidus.com) Discuss

• Neuroscience: Idle minds (2012)
  (nature.com) Discuss

• Spirograph
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
  (swissinfo.ch) Discuss

• The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
  (thecritic.co.uk) Discuss

• Deliveroo to offer 50M pounds of stock to customers
  (fidelity.com) Discuss

• Launch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teams
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• I Bought a Business for $0
  (every.to) Discuss

• ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a UI Engineer
  (readme.com) Discuss

• How to Get Better at Recursion
  (notes.eatonphil.com) Discuss

• The dark side of “eating lower on the food chain”
  (peterturchin.com) Discuss

• “Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)
  (perl.plover.com) Discuss

• FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max
  (seattletimes.com) Discuss

• US Pipeline Caused Biggest Spill in Decades, We’re Just Hearing About It
  (earther.gizmodo.com) Discuss

• Donate Unrestricted
  (paulgraham.com) Discuss

• Why winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs
  (cbc.ca) Discuss

• Someone is hacking the hackers
  (gizmodo.com) Discuss

• We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks
  (cheapskatesguide.org) Discuss

• Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser
  (preprints.org) Discuss

• Understanding P-Values Through Simulations – An Interactive Visualization
  (rpsychologist.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Freemium Alternative to Plaid in Europe
  (nordigen.com) Discuss

• Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
  (atodorov.me) Discuss

• Show HN: Buy My Side Project
  (buymysideproject.com) Discuss

• China’s Bitcoin miners flee Inner Mongolia ahead of crypto mining ban
  (forkast.news) Discuss

• Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps
  (omgubuntu.co.uk) Discuss

• Publii – CMS with SSG
  (getpublii.com) Discuss

• It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All
  (digest.bps.org.uk) Discuss

• Build advanced automation at Volta Labs, Inc. (YC W19) as a software engineer
  (workatastartup.com) Discuss

• Deep Work on the Rise
  (beta.readng.co) Discuss

• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)
  (kalzumeus.com) Discuss

• Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack
  (letsencrypt.status.io) Discuss

• Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
  (kevinlynagh.com) Discuss

Saturday, 06 March 2021

• The ZX81 Turns 40
  (theregister.com) Discuss

• Notes from a Year of Building Keyboards
  (kevinlynagh.com) Discuss

• The Ergodicity Problem in Economics
  (nature.com) Discuss

• Impraise (YC S14) Hiring Senior Product Designer
  (impraise.recruitee.com) Discuss

• My Custom Emacs Setup
  (hristos.co) Discuss

• Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)
  (rochester.edu) Discuss

• 507 Mechanical Movements (1868)
  (507movements.com) Discuss

• Study Shows Far-Right Misinformation Is Thriving on Facebook
  (npr.org) Discuss

• Blogging Is Hard (2008)
  (yosefk.com) Discuss

• Don’t use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]
  (harold.thimbleby.net) Discuss

• ISO Standard for Preparing Tea
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
  (washingtonpost.com) Discuss

• NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
  (seths.blog) Discuss

• The Math Behind Project Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage (2017)
  (apenwarr.ca) Discuss

• Functioning iPhone returned to owner after six months at bottom of lake
  (cbc.ca) Discuss

• Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
  (pubsonline.informs.org) Discuss

• Bay Area drug kingpins lured low-level dealers, promising cheap rent (2020)
  (eastbaytimes.com) Discuss

• Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco
  (latimes.com) Discuss

• Starlogo TNG: The Next Generation (2009)
  (web.mit.edu) Discuss

• Nodes.io – A new way to create with code
  (nodes.io) Discuss

• Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix protocol
  (cactus.chat) Discuss

• Build Your Machine Today
  (vention.io) Discuss

• YouTuber Builds Working 3D-Printed Turbojet Engine and Tests It in His Attic
  (thedrive.com) Discuss

• Atmospheric Changes: On Meteorology and Camus
  (thepointmag.com) Discuss

• Lying to the Ghost in the Machine
  (antipope.org) Discuss

• FFMPEG from Zero to Hero
  (ffmpegfromzerotohero.com) Discuss

• ContentFly (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Managers and Product Designers
  (contentfly.com) Discuss

• Download the Entire Wikimedia Database
  (dumps.wikimedia.org) Discuss

• WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
  (sfwriter.com) Discuss

• Show HN: PrograMaker – Visual Programming Platform
  (programaker.com) Discuss

• Show HN: I made a note-taking app for roleplaying games like D&D
  (critical-notes.com) Discuss

• Tesla has closed its forums to launch a social platform and fans are not happy
  (techcrunch.com) Discuss

• A Brief History of Cryptocurrency as Payment (2020)
  (bakkt.com) Discuss

• What Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (1999)
  (hpmuseum.org) Discuss

• Building a Discord Bot Using Discord.js
  (smashingmagazine.com) Discuss

• Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres
  (citusdata.com) Discuss

• Dos.Zone – interactive database of DOS games
  (dos.zone) Discuss

• IBM Port-A-Punch: create punched card documents anywhere
  (tedium.co) Discuss

• White House Warns After Microsoft Accuses China of Hacking Its Mail Server
  (thenexthint.com) Discuss

• Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic so bad?
  (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) Discuss

• Animated Engines
  (animatedengines.com) Discuss

• The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (2015)
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring Technical Project Managers
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Virtual Particles: What are they? (2011)
  (profmattstrassler.com) Discuss

• Audio over Bluetooth: most detailed information about profiles and codecs (2019)
  (habr.com) Discuss

• Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life (2019)
  (lithub.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Lensflare – The Next Unsplash
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Delphi Method
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
  (macrumors.com) Discuss

• Here are the 'wrong' illustrations that got six Dr. Seuss books cancelled
  (nationalpost.com) Discuss

• Military Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
  (vice.com) Discuss

• Show HN: I built a service to share source code without signing up
  (harigami.net) Discuss

• Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
  (archive.vn) Discuss

• Why must we hate the things teen girls love? (2018)
  (mnn.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Cleaning Up Your Postgres Database
  (blog.crunchydata.com) Discuss

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

• Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Sirum (YC W15) Is Hiring Software and QA Engineers with Pharmacy Experience
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a macabre surgical arms race
  (atlasobscura.com) Discuss

• A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs
  (newyorker.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Tech posers of the Bauhaus
  (orgonomyproductions.info) Discuss

• Multiple GRUB2 vulnerabilities – 2021/03/02 rou
  (lists.gnu.org) Discuss

• The Sad Story of the Centris
  (512pixels.net) Discuss

Friday, 05 March 2021

• Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring Engineers in London to Enable Data Driven Biotechnology
  (notion.so) Discuss

• A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels (Creation of Amazon S3)
  (cacm.acm.org) Discuss

• Zero Data App
  (0data.app) Discuss

• Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is?
  (ai.stanford.edu) Discuss

• TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (2019)
  (righto.com) Discuss

• The Toit Programming Language
  (docs.toit.io) Discuss