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Tuesday, 20 April 2021

• President of Chad Killed on the Battlefield
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”
  (phoronix.com) Discuss

• Keeper Tax w19 just raised $13m, hiring first PM
  (notion.so) Discuss

• We need to know the origin of Covid-19
  (desmoinesregister.com) Discuss

• Munin Website Redesigned
  (munin-monitoring.org) Discuss

• Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Prolog for Beginners
  (coursera.org) Discuss

• Show HN: The simplest React state manager now at stable release
  (simpler-state.js.org) Discuss

• No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms (2018)
  (bbc.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore
  (shepherd.com) Discuss

• PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
  (pspad.com) Discuss

Monday, 19 April 2021

• Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Stamper
  (p5stamper.com) Discuss

• Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)
  (accessibleaudio.co) Discuss

• The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
  (vitling.xyz) Discuss

• Buying an MP3 Player in 2018
  (techspot.com) Discuss

• Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
  (devrant.com) Discuss

• IBM employee forced to stop kernel work for using personal email address
  (git.kernel.org) Discuss

• OpenSSH 8.6 Released
  (lwn.net) Discuss

• Walter Mondale Has Died
  (axios.com) Discuss

• Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist
  (erikbern.com) Discuss

• Book review on the history of modern Singapore
  (lrb.co.uk) Discuss

• Herman and the Serpent
  (northandsouth.co.nz) Discuss

• You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)
  (zackkanter.com) Discuss

• What is the hardest language in the world to lip-read? (2020)
  (atlasobscura.com) Discuss

• Volumio – The Audiophile Music Player
  (volumio.org) Discuss

• Capitol Police officer suffered two strokes after riot, died of natural causes
  (washingtonpost.com) Discuss

• Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics
  (nature.com) Discuss

• The “Granny Knot”
  (fieggen.com) Discuss

• Is this regulation a real threat against free speech?
  (edri.org) Discuss

• Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
  (autonews.io) Discuss

• J2 open processor: an open source processor using the SuperH ISA
  (j-core.org) Discuss

• Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader
  (tnhh.net) Discuss

• Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Content Writing for SaaS Companies – A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
  (yourcontentmart.co) Discuss

• Tail latency might matter more than you think
  (brooker.co.za) Discuss

• How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
  (stackoverflow.blog) Discuss

• Huawei ‘may have eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network’s calls’
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
  (retroviator.com) Discuss

• Firefox 88.0
  (mozilla.org) Discuss

• Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)
  (arstechnica.com) Discuss

• Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store
  (macrumors.com) Discuss

• The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
  (theringer.com) Discuss

• SmartFarm device to harvest air moisture for self-sustaining urban farming
  (news.nus.edu.sg) Discuss

• Prions Are Going to End the World
  (countere.com) Discuss

• Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
  (washingtonmonthly.com) Discuss

• Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
  (truzzi.me) Discuss

• Coalition of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters
  (ft.com) Discuss

• Gandi.net Major Outage
  (status.gandi.net) Discuss

• Stanford A grim correlation between violence and inequality
  (news.stanford.edu) Discuss

• What's in the Box?
  (fasterthanli.me) Discuss

• Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention
  (gov.uk) Discuss

• India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
  (atlasobscura.com) Discuss

• The Muse (YC W12) is building out our design team – come join
  (themuse.com) Discuss

• Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
  (francoisbest.com) Discuss

• Mars Helicopter Ingenuity test flight altitude graph
  (imgur.com) Discuss

• Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
  (bbc.com) Discuss

• Start a Business from Plastic Waste
  (preciousplastic.com) Discuss

• Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI
  (humio.com) Discuss

• Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency
  (bankofengland.co.uk) Discuss

• Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans (2013) [pdf]
  (iacr.org) Discuss

• Product placements may be added to classic films
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• Immigration Policies an Ongoing Concern to AI Researchers
  (unite.ai) Discuss

• Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
  (ndss-symposium.org) Discuss

• IPTIA Fidonet/Usenet Message Archive
  (ipingthereforeiam.com) Discuss

• Why Specifications Don't Compose
  (hillelwayne.com) Discuss

• Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
  (mvanga.com) Discuss

• Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization
  (symphony.iohk.io) Discuss

• Curl those funny IPv4 addresses
  (daniel.haxx.se) Discuss

• Bits (YC S20) Is Hiring a Lead Designer
  (ycombinator.com) Discuss

Sunday, 18 April 2021

• Connectors That Changed the World
  (outfunnel.com) Discuss

• My Love Affair with Dozens (1972) [pdf]
  (dozenal.org) Discuss

• US West prepares for possible first water shortage declaration
  (apnews.com) Discuss

• Spring in the Middle Ages
  (medievalists.net) Discuss

• Cost Of Goods Sold
  (every.to) Discuss

• Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?
  (eyeondesign.aiga.org) Discuss

• DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi
  (ruha.camera) Discuss

• In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ the contradictions made the man
  (washingtonpost.com) Discuss

• Job board to work on problems like climate change and food insecurity
  (goodjobs.careers) Discuss

• Patent Loving Judge Keeps Pissing Off Patent Appeals Court, Doesn't Seem to Care
  (techdirt.com) Discuss

• Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces
  (usatoday.com) Discuss

• Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU
  (lwn.net) Discuss

• Unsettling capital letters
  (art-by-kaine-shields.tumblr.com) Discuss

• ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving
  (archivebox.io) Discuss

• MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland
  (jeffgeerling.com) Discuss

• AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison
  (tomshardware.com) Discuss

• Connecticut inn has hosted sea-chantey singalongs for half a century
  (atlasobscura.com) Discuss

• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III
  (rosenzweig.io) Discuss

• Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor
  (starboard.gg) Discuss

• Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges
  (gekkio.fi) Discuss

• On the Epidemiology of Influenza (2008)
  (virologyj.biomedcentral.com) Discuss

• What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
  (scientificamerican.com) Discuss

• Edward Snowden NFT Sells for $5.4M in Ethereum
  (decrypt.co) Discuss

• Show HN: hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions
  (hackernews.roundtable.audio) Discuss

• PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]
  (adobe.com) Discuss

• Mice fed fast food get noticeably stupider, scientists warn
  (futurism.com) Discuss

• Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report
  (nltimes.nl) Discuss

• Ask HN: Considering colocated hosting over cloud, what should I know?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Smartphones can detect solar storms
  (academictimes.com) Discuss

• Paternoster Lift
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Turning an iPad Pro into a classic Macintosh
  (blog.gingerbeardman.com) Discuss

• Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale
  (ideas.lego.com) Discuss

• Public-ownership rental as a third option to renting or owning a house
  (theatlantic.com) Discuss

• Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?
  (nber.org) Discuss

• Reverse-engineering a vintage comparator chip
  (righto.com) Discuss

• Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recluses (2018)
  (nationalgeographic.com) Discuss

• SketchDeck (YC W14) is hiring engineers to launch a new product
  (apply.workable.com) Discuss

• Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture
  (fastcompany.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
  (aidmin.io) Discuss

• Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir
  (dashbit.co) Discuss

• $7.6B in crypto long positions liquidated in 1 hour as Bitcoin plunges to $52k
  (theblockcrypto.com) Discuss

• Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board
  (vote.debian.org) Discuss

• Sex Workers Explain Why the Safe Tech Act Will Break the Internet
  (vice.com) Discuss

• Wireless USB
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth
  (scitechdaily.com) Discuss

• Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
  (click2houston.com) Discuss

• Wikimedia: wprov
  (wikitech.wikimedia.org) Discuss

• China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan for a New Internet
  (justsecurity.org) Discuss

• How Developers Choose Names
  (arxiv.org) Discuss