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Sunday, 25 October 2020

• Show HN: A map of wheelchair accessible places
  (wheelmap.org) Discuss

• California Middle-Schooler Threatened with Jail for Missing 3 Zoom Classes
  (dailywire.com) Discuss

• YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository
  (gitlab.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: Which general programming language is good for learning/exploring math?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

Saturday, 24 October 2020

• The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19
  (nature.com) Discuss

• Lloyd's Coffee House
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• It’s in the Air: The Corsair HS70 Wireless Headset and Linux
  (boilingsteam.com) Discuss

• A Tree That Owns Itself (2018)
  (thetreeographer.com) Discuss

• Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportable, 4G LTE Equipped
  (news.acer.com) Discuss

• Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub
  (forum.palemoon.org) Discuss

• SK-Intel NAND deal points to wider shake-up of chip sector
  (asia.nikkei.com) Discuss

• Origami Simulator
  (origamisimulator.org) Discuss

• Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
  (equipmentjournal.com) Discuss

• Cross-Border Payments – A New Beginning
  (imf.org) Discuss

• Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
  (gamespot.com) Discuss

• Pandoc – A universal document converter
  (pandoc.org) Discuss

• Boston Dynamics Spot Measured Background Radiation in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
  (ukrinform.ua) Discuss

• Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust
  (tech-blog.sonos.com) Discuss

• My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
  (blog.johannes-mittendorfer.com) Discuss

• We studied what happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles
  (universal-sci.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Space Engine – The Universe Simulator
  (spaceengine.org) Discuss

• Show HN: Implement a retro game in JavaScript with MakeCode Arcade style sprites
  (codeguppy.com) Discuss

• Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture
  (susam.in) Discuss

• How to Live with Dying
  (theamericanscholar.org) Discuss

• YC Gaming Startups Are Hiring (Job Expo with Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch)
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible
  (righto.com) Discuss

• The four dangerous animals of product development
  (ochronus.online) Discuss

• ØMQ – The Guide (2011)
  (zguide.zeromq.org) Discuss

• Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life
  (smh.com.au) Discuss

• I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
  (varsity.co.uk) Discuss

• Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
  (prog21.dadgum.com) Discuss

• GDB 10.1
  (lists.gnu.org) Discuss

• Static single assignment for functional programmers
  (wingolog.org) Discuss

• The Ghidra Book
  (nostarch.com) Discuss

• 'changeme' is valid base64
  (blog.3fx.ch) Discuss

• The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread
  (science.sciencemag.org) Discuss

• September 2020 least deadly month ever in Sweden
  (cornucopia.cornubot.se) Discuss

• Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
  (blog.cloudkernels.net) Discuss

• Redefining Software Quality
  (gojko.net) Discuss

• An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you
  (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Discuss

• Understanding static single assignment forms
  (blog.yossarian.net) Discuss

• A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64
  (freeze64.com) Discuss

• Gitlab was down
  (status.gitlab.com) Discuss

• Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
  (gresearch.co.uk) Discuss

• Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption
  (stingle.org) Discuss

• Faasd – Lightweight Serverless for Raspberry Pi
  (blog.alexellis.io) Discuss

• 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete
  (petapixel.com) Discuss

• EM Information Theory of Consciousness
  (academic.oup.com) Discuss

• A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• Utubster downloads YTB playlists, MP4 videos and MP3s from almost any website
  (utubster.com) Discuss

• What If There _Is_ Life on Venus?
  (sapiens.org) Discuss

Friday, 23 October 2020

• Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point
  (cnx-software.com) Discuss

• A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
  (blog.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Lessons from six months at Shopify
  (alexdanco.com) Discuss

• Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• Language Design with Leo White
  (signalsandthreads.com) Discuss

• Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins in Search for 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims
  (npr.org) Discuss

• Old Laptops as Secondary Monitors
  (rgoswami.me) Discuss

• Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response
  (timesunion.com) Discuss

• GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
  (blog.printf.net) Discuss

• Local Solar Time
  (jefftk.com) Discuss

• The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it
  (forbes.com) Discuss

• Debugging async generator errors in Rust
  (meltware.com) Discuss

• Jerry, Inc. (YC S17) Is Hiring a Data Engineer in Toronto
  (apply.workable.com) Discuss

• LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)
  (andregarzia.com) Discuss

• Hermione Lee on How to Write a Life
  (newstatesman.com) Discuss

• The Right to Read (1997)
  (gnu.org) Discuss

• Palo Alto Tiny BASIC in the Browser
  (troypress.com) Discuss

• The Children of the Opera
  (newcriterion.com) Discuss

• A Brief History of Surgeons
  (laphamsquarterly.org) Discuss

• Gravimetric Radar: Gravity-Based Detection of a Point-Mass Moving in Static Back
  (arxiv.org) Discuss

• Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training
  (sergeykish.com) Discuss

• Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser
  (hubs.mozilla.com) Discuss

• Rejuvenating Autoconf
  (lwn.net) Discuss

• Better Than JSON?
  (wiki.alopex.li) Discuss

• Four features that justify a new Unix shell
  (oilshell.org) Discuss

• Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil
  (blog.trailofbits.com) Discuss

• Dover (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a truly modern recruiting agency
  (dover.io) Discuss

• Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software
  (labcodes.com.br) Discuss

• Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN
  (wzrd.ai) Discuss

• Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping
  (latimes.com) Discuss

• Master of Magic
  (filfre.net) Discuss

• Deprecating SHA1
  (mailarchive.ietf.org) Discuss

• War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)
  (acoup.blog) Discuss

• Boswell's Life of Johnson
  (fantasticanachronism.com) Discuss

• How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers
  (moritz.systems) Discuss

• In Love with the Louvre
  (newyorker.com) Discuss

• CSS Spider – fast and easy way to check, copy and edit CSS
  (cssspider.fresalabs.com) Discuss

• Electoral College Decision Tree
  (observablehq.com) Discuss

• Fixing the D3-zoom API for my use-case
  (blog.scottlogic.com) Discuss

• Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year
  (cointelegraph.com) Discuss

• The Age of Scurvy (2017)
  (sciencehistory.org) Discuss

• Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier
  (sciencemag.org) Discuss

• On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
  (ruzkuku.com) Discuss

• Understanding static single assignment forms
  (blog.yossarian.net) Discuss

• Researchers provide most complete record yet of Earth's last magnetic reversal
  (phys.org) Discuss

• Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests
  (livescience.com) Discuss

• How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Business Operations – Tech Stack
  (about.gitlab.com) Discuss

• From Vector Spaces to Periodic Functions (2019)
  (susam.in) Discuss

• How Humans Judge Machines [pdf]
  (static1.squarespace.com) Discuss

• Plausible Analytics Isn't GDPR Compliant
  (blog.paranoidpenguin.net) Discuss

• Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars
  (phys.org) Discuss

• Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf]
  (courses.csail.mit.edu) Discuss

• Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
  (thefuntastic.com) Discuss