Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Multiple US Navy Destroyers Swarmed by Mysterious 'Drones' Off CA Coast

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GPT-3 tries pickup lines

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How to price your SaaS product

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CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses

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Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections

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Donald Knuth’s Algorithm D, its implementation in Hacker’s Delight and elsewhere

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Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

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Hutter Prize

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The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness

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The Price History of Campbell's Tomato Soup

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Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors

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Slow Tuesday Night by R.A. Lafferty (1965) [pdf]

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Venus Could Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years

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Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring VP of Product Marketing

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Vim-gh-line: Vim plugin to open the current line on GitHub

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Does Media Coverage Inspire Copy Cat Mass Shootings?

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Maps Show How Dramatically Fertilizer Is Choking the Great Lakes

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Medium Editorial Team Update

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The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents

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FCC Reaches Out to Collect Consumer Broadband Availability Experiences

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This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Synth (YC S20) Is Hiring Rust Software Engineers

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Google for the Physical World

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Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking

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Show HN: Regular expression compilation visualized

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Before and after satellite imagery show early impact of NSW (Australia) floods

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Show HN: Reclist.me – Share your favorite books, podcasts, newsletters

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Darker Corners of Go

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I was threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site

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Project Pockit, a modular ARM computer runnig Linux

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John Cleese has an NFT bridge to sell you for $69.3M

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NSA Issues Guidance on Zero Trust Security Model

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Monday, March 22, 2021

Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10B

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A Brief History of the Hedge Fund

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DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights

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Z3 – ZFS to S3 Backup/Restore Tool

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Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG

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Archaeologists Solve Mystery of 5,600-Year-Old Skull Found in Italian Cave

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Substack's UI just cost me $2,023

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Setting Up Arch Linux with KDE Plasma in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Killing it: From handaxes to spears, no difference in hunting (2020)

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Is the Montreal Metro Profitable? (2017)

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Chip-starved automakers shudder at Renesas plant's 1-month halt

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How NetNewsWire Handles Threading

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Dear Young Artist [pdf]

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Counterfeit Mitutoyo digital calipers are sold on Amazon

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Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018)

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Is It Farewell to the Handshake?

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World’s “bluest” sky is in Brazil (2006)

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Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Regexploit: DoS-Able Regular Expressions

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‘Fierce Poise’ Review: A Splash of Helen Frankenthaler

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Work at YC and help YC startups hire great people

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Loopy Pipe Network Converts back-and-forth flow into one-way flow

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Nadine Strossen, former ACLU president, on canceling RMS

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Falling robots and human trust

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The Magic Kernel

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Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

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The Internet has been cut in Myanmar for the 36th consecutive night

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NYC Spent Half a Million Dollars per Inmate in 2020, Report Says

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The Swift Array Design (2014)

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Richard M Stallman Is Back on the FSF Board He Founded 35 Years Ago

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Multithreading for Game Engines

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Found in space: Complex carbon-based molecules

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Godot Engine Web Editor

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A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks an SEC First

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Clarifying memory management with page folios

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Bottled Authors: The predigital dream of the audiobook

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Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later

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Outgrowing Software

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George Bass has died

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Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs (2017)

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Brazil agency fines Apple $2M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box

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Iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

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The failed heir: The Hyper Neo Geo 64

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Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Show HN: Papercups – open-source alternative to Intercom

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A Short Cautionary Tale About Refactoring

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Saturday, March 20, 2021

A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning

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Blake 32

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Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface

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SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA

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How does my mind talk to my body? [audio]

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The Western Digital WD Black SN850 Review: A Fast PCIe 4.0 SSD

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Cryptography Behind the Top Cryptocurrencies

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What can we tell from the evolution of Han Chinese names?

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Skylab: The Myth of the Mutiny in Space

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A Guide to Writing Mathematics [pdf]

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Limitations of the Electronic Shutter Function (2016)

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Fantasy and the Buffered Self (2014)

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Amazon S3 Object Lambda

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My Dad Published Lolita

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Wells and Wellington Affair

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Permissionless Identities (2020)

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Cherokee Numerals

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Reinstating Net Neutrality in the US

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Friday, March 19, 2021

Misunderstanding Malthus’ mistake

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Differential Datalog

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Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)

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‘A Perfect World’ Around Every Miniature Bend

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CFTC Orders Coinbase Inc. To Pay $6.5M Penalty

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Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy

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DeepSource (YC W20) Is Hiring a Technical Lead (Language Engineering)

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New Intel “backdoor” – undocumented x86 instruction to alter microcode

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I don't care about cookies

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A Blight on Soviet Science

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Tesla's “Full Self Driving” Beta Is Just Laughably Bad and Potentially Dangerous

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Why use old computers and operating systems?

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Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round

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The true villain of Disney’s Frozen (2019)

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ML enhancement of extremely low light imagery

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It's Never a Bicycle Accident

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Stuff Your Logs

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What Did Sun’s OSPO Do?

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Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Lenders are turning to coercive loan apps that shut down smartphones

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John le Carré's crucial, covert collaborator

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Show HN: Freeciv-Web

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Go Statement Considered Harmful (2018)

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Missing baryons found in far-out reaches of galactic halos

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Longhouse lockdown: The Nias islanders of Indonesia

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Tracing the Sprawling Roots of Flash Preservation

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America’s Covid Swab Supply Depends on Two Cousins Who Hate Each Other

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Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 2: Successfully executing (some) instructions

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

The reason the local mall is failing (2018)

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The Adventurous Seafaring Women of the Age of Sail, in Their Own Words

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Greenwald: Yesterday, Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter

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A Walking Tour of 1866 New York: In the footsteps of 150-year-old guides (2016)

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How to Design Programs

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She Came to the US to Study with Only $300 – Now She’s a NASA Director

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The MANIAC 1 documentation (1954) [pdf]

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Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash

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Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives

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Project to recover XXDP, PDP-11's diagnostic OS

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Reverse Engineering a Docker Image

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Reddit investors adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Decentro (YC S20) Is Hiring Its Director of Engineering

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Fossils in an ice core rewrite Greenland’s icy past

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The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions

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Information Is Surprise (2015)

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We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR (Outside the Valley)

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José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

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Ghost Kernel

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All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty

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The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)

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This. Isn’t. Sparta. (2019)

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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MDfourier: An audio analysis tool for gaming hardware

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Scientists discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice

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Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos

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The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t

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Jello 3D Printer

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Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product

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Cosmic lens reveals faint radio galaxy

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The Culture Warped Pop, for Good

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Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

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AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

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Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring a Lead Ruby Engineer

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Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

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Boosting developer success on Google Play

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JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

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Structure of Fruit Fly Brain (2018)

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gRPC Is Easy to Misconfigure

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Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

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Audi abandons combustion engine development

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The Modern Java Platform

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New SWAT drone smashes windows, opens doors, and negotiates with suspects

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On the Impracticality of a Cheeseburger (2011)

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Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Why in the World Would You Own Bonds?

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The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout

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The Fight for Ethics in AI's Lossy Compression Problem

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Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

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Finding a standard dataset format for machine learning (2020)

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Jim McKelvey Interview, co-founder of Square

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Show HN: O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible

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GitHub Has a Permission Problem

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Chris Sacca Unretired

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Buildroot – Making Embedded Linux Easy

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Stacker (YC S20) is hiring engineers in Europe (remote)

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Electric car that charges itself

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Conan – A package manager for C/C++

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Kotlin Compiler Crash Course

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Rust Koans

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JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site

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It’s time to stop using SMS for anything

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Learning Without Burnout

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Psychic Numbing and Genocide

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Immutable Linux desktop with OpenSUSE and Snaps

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Accents, Dialects, and Discrimination

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Show HN: WebApp that blows water out of your phone's speakers

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Monday, March 15, 2021

We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)

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Brain’s ‘wiring insulation’ a major factors of age-related brain deterioration

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In Landmark Privacy Law, California Passes Regulation Banning “Dark Patterns”

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How C++ Resolves a Function Call

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Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized in DC as of Today

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Array Databases: Concepts, Standards, Implementations [pdf]

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Firefox plans to remove large URL bar

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Add a Dark Theme to a Ruby on Rails App

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Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash

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Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete (2017)

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The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption

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Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring to Make Developers More Productive (Remote, UTC ± 3h)

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Generate Complete Sets of Serial Numbers for OS X-KVM, Docker-OS X, OpenCore

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Facebook has 10k engineers working on AR/VR

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Swap Curve Fitting

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Legislative Performance Futures – Incentivize Good Laws by Monetizing the Future

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IPFS Local Offline Collaboration Sig

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Trader Joe’s $2 wine became a best-seller

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Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust

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Software engineers make the best CEOs, at least when measured by market cap

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New Bare Hash Map: 2X-3X Speedup over SOTA

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2D Graphics on Modern GPU (2019)

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Creating an Excel Add-In in D

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Blender website under maintenance due to hacking attempt

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What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?

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Sunday, March 14, 2021

How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language

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Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

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Al Jaffee turns 100, and Mad magazine salutes its legendary artist

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The Part Time Creator Manifesto

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The odd couple: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Waste of Daylight

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Satellite Imagery Shows Northern California Kelp Forests Have Collapsed

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Build your own “data lake” for reporting purposes

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Immortal Technologies (2006)

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Tim Wu: Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Wrong about Platform Immunity

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Flexport is hiring engineers in Amsterdam

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WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed German communications laws

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Tuna’s Last Stand

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Ask HN: Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?

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Dancing on a Volcano

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Stargazers Map

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Trader gets painted stones instead of $36m of copper

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Piracy, Overcoming Gravity, and the Digital Edition

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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery

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Fitting Cubic Bézier Curves

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Wayland in 2021

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John Muir in Native America

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I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries

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A Medieval Woman Wore ‘Birthing Girdle’ to Protect Herself During Labor

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Open Source clones of popular sites (e.g. Airbnb, clubhouse)

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Ask HN: Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018

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Tesla says “Full Self-Driving” software doesn't make cars autonomous

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The Short Story Priesthood

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Multigenerational LRU: more performant, versatile, straightforward than Linux's

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Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch

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Career levels, designation, momentum, etc. (2018)

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Graham Greene Against the World

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Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles?

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Google slams Microsoft for trying ‘to break the way the open web works’

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Synth Playground

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Ask HN: How to get a Logo/ Corporate Designs in 2021?

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Translating Newton’s Principia

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Grand Theft Auto: Rockstar Leeds founder Gordon Hall dies aged 51

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Ask HN: What happens when someone copies an NFT onto another blockhain?

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Blueberry Medical (YC W18) Is Hiring

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China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach

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OnlyFans snipe domain from Notify, a small startup

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Web Crawler Latency Experiment

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printvideo.com

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Friday, March 12, 2021

Speed of Rust vs. C

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RethinkDB: We Failed

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Overview of Early Electric Cars

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AFL++ Fuzzing Framework

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Dentists and midwives giving shots, 4,000 troops to help: How Biden is expanding COVID-19 vaccinations - USA TODAY

Dentists and midwives giving shots, 4,000 troops to help: How Biden is expanding COVID-19 vaccinations  USA TODAYView Full Coverage on Google News

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L.A. County to reopen indoor restaurants, gyms Monday after California meets COVID-19 vaccine target - KTLA Los Angeles

  1. L.A. County to reopen indoor restaurants, gyms Monday after California meets COVID-19 vaccine target  KTLA Los Angeles
  2. LA County Likely To Moving Into Red Tier Monday: Indoor Dining To Return, Movie Theaters To Reopen  CBS Los Angeles
  3. Placer, Tuolumne, Amador, Colusa among 13 California counties moving to red tier  KCRA Sacramento
  4. L.A. County to reopen indoor dining, gyms, museums and other sectors on Monday  KTLA 5
  5. California to hit critical milestone for reopening today  CalMatters
  6. View Full Coverage on Google News


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U.S. joins a trio of countries in pledging millions of vaccine doses to other nations - Washington Post

  1. U.S. joins a trio of countries in pledging millions of vaccine doses to other nations  Washington Post
  2. Senior Biden officials to confront Chinese counterparts in Anchorage on U.S., ally concerns  Yahoo News
  3. Sullivan: Tariffs not a focus in next week's China talks  POLITICO
  4. The Biden administration’s first showdown with China  The Washington Post
  5. Biden Steers Off a Blunt Anti-China Message With Asian Allies  Bloomberg
  6. View Full Coverage on Google News


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Dow Jones Hits Record High As Nasdaq Gets Slammed; Bond Yields Jump - Investor's Business Daily

  1. Dow Jones Hits Record High As Nasdaq Gets Slammed; Bond Yields Jump  Investor's Business Daily
  2. S&P 500 retreats from record highs, Nasdaq dips at opening trade  CNBC Television
  3. Nasdaq Slips As Biden Stimulus Raises These Fears; Dow Rallies; Warren Buffett Stock Crumbles  Investor's Business Daily
  4. U.S. stocks close mixed as Dow notches fifth straight record high  Reuters
  5. 6 Reasons You Must Be in Stocks Right Now  InvestorPlace
  6. View Full Coverage on Google News


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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos snubs Bernie Sanders' invite to hearing on income inequality - Fox Business

  1. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos snubs Bernie Sanders' invite to hearing on income inequality  Fox Business
  2. Amazon Union Fight Heats Up At Bessemer Warehouse In Alabama  NPR
  3. Marco Rubio endorses Amazon unionization effort, bringing bipartisan support  CNBC
  4. Sen. Marco Rubio: Amazon should face unionization drive without Republican support  USA TODAY
  5. AFL-CIO knocks Rubio's Amazon union op-ed | TheHill  The Hill
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iPhone 13 Models Will 'Likely' Have Touch ID Under the Display - MacRumors

  1. iPhone 13 Models Will 'Likely' Have Touch ID Under the Display  MacRumors
  2. iPhone 12 — Cook | Apple  Apple
  3. Stunning iPhone 13 Pro video shows off huge upgrades  Tom's Guide
  4. Apple needs to bring back the Rose Gold iPhone  iMore
  5. Barclays analysts say iPhone 13 will ‘likely’ include in-screen Touch ID this year  9to5Mac
  6. View Full Coverage on Google News


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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

The verdict is in: People who've had COVID-19 need just one shot, researchers say

Giving people who've already had COVID-19 a second dose may be a waste, since the first one already acts like a booster.


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The Pentagon signs two contracts with SpaceX for 159 million dollars

This is the second agreement reached by the Department of Defense and Elon Musk's company.


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Chatbot startup Heyday raises $5.1M

Montreal-based Heyday announced today that it has raised $6.5 million Canadian ($5.1 million in US dollars) in additional seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Steve Desjarlais told me that the startup's goal is to allow retailers to support more automation and more personalization in their online customer interactions, while co-founder and CMO Etienne Merineau described it as an "all-in-one unified customer messaging platform." It then uses artificial intelligence to determine whether it's a customer service or sales-related interaction, and it automates basic responses when possible.


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The company behind the Brabham supercar is getting into the electric bus business with a former Tesla executive - Startup Daily

The South Australian group behind the manufacture of the Brabham BT62 supercar is positioning itself to become a major producer of electric buses for the emerging Australian market. Co-located with sister company Brabham Automotive in Adelaide, South Australia, BusTech Group is gearing up to produce at least 60 electric buses for the NSW Government over... Read more »


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Massive camera hack exposes the growing reach and intimacy of American surveillance

A breach of the camera start-up Verkada "should be a wake up call to the dangers of self-surveillance,” one expert said. “Our desire for some fake sense of security is its own security threat.”


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New ‘Limit App’ targets social media users between 18 and 25 — and kicks them off when they turn 26

Scott Avy is not an ageist. He's just trying to limit the age range for people who can use his new social media product, which is fittingly called Limit App. Limit App is aimed at people between the…


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Twitter plans to roll out Twitter Spaces to everyone in April

It could also have a 'Tip Jar' to help creators make money.


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Audio cassette tape inventor Lou Ottens dies aged 94

The Dutch engineer's invention transformed the way people listened to music in the 20th century.


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Study: It might be unethical to force AI to tell us the truth

Until recently, deceit was a trait unique to living beings. But these days artificial intelligence agents lie to us and each other all the time. The most popular example of dishonest AI came a couple years back when Facebook developed an AI system that created its own language in order to simplify negotiations with itself. […]


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PS5 restock: Sony Direct out of stock in 33 minutes – here's where to go next

Update: the next PS5 restock is happening tomorrow. Here's how to get in on the big console drop.


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Phishing Scams May Be Worse Than Ever This Tax Season | Tech.co

April 15 is the deadline for filing federal income tax returns. Here's why tax scammers are likely to be out in full force this year.


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How Roblox built a $30 billion company on kid-friendly gaming

Roblox just became Wall Street’s hottest new tech stock — but your kid was probably a fan already. The Silicon Valley company behind a massive world of social video games went public


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iQoo Neo 5 specs confirmed ahead of March 16 launch

Powered by Snapdragon 870


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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Piers Morgan leaves UK morning show over Meghan Markle furor: What happened?

The British TV personality said he "doesn't believe a word" the duchess says, then stormed off the set and later quit his job.


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Security firm probes hack of '150,000 cameras'

Bloomberg reports the hack exposed camera feeds showing the insides of offices, hospitals and businesses.


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Of course John Legere bought an $888,888.88 NFT from Steve Aoki

What’s John Legere doing with his time off? Buying NFTs, naturally


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OnePlus co-founder's 'Nothing' startup reveals first product: Transparent earbuds

Is it breathalyzer? Or a whistle? No, the first product from OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei's new Nothing startup is a pair of wireless earbuds encased in a transparent shell.


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Deportations are down nearly 60% since Trump's final months in office

In February, ICE arrested about 2,500 people, down from an average of 6,800 arrests per month in the final weeks of the Trump administration.


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Twitch might be testing a streamer scoring system to facilitate ad sales

The Brand Safety Score popped up in the internal Twitch API.


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Zego, the tech-enabled commercial motor insurer, raises $150M at $1.1B valuation

Zego, the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Leading the London-based company’s C round — giving it a $1.1 billion valuation and a unicorn status — is DST Global. Other […]


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WeWork, Softbank, Victoria 147 and ASEM launch program to accelerate the growth of startups led by women in Mexico

This initiative was born in response to the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 has had mainly on working women in the region.


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All the Best Rokus Are On Sale Right Now

If you've been looking for a better TV setup, our favorite streaming devices are discounted.


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Got a COVID vaccine early? Congrats, now it's time to advocate for health equity.

By volunteering at a mass vaccination site, I got a shot of the Pfizer vaccine, and a dose of reckoning with my own privilege.


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Google Meet is getting a small but useful new feature for large scale video calls

Setting up breakout rooms in advance can help Meet users save valuable time


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Fever scanner company reverses decision, saying tool cited in FDA warning will continue to be sold

The company had previously said it was "retiring” the device while it looked into the FDA’s concerns.


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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity on suborbital flight

With backing from NASA, Blue Origin will upgrade its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to provide lunar levels of gravity for future experiments.


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Samsung will host another Unpacked event on March 17th

New Galaxy A-series phones will likely be announced


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How long will the Hubble Telescope last?

The 31-year-old telescope has just gone into safe mode once again—a reminder that it's likely on its last legs.


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Biden Is Assembling a Big Tech Antitrust All-Star Team

Appointing Lina Khan to the FTC would add an anti-monopoly crusader to a crucial position—as does Tim Wu’s installment at the National Economic Council.


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Culture Amp and Atlassian are in the top 10 on Fast Company’s list of the world’s most innovative companies - Startup Daily

Australian workplace tech powerhouses Atlassian and Culture Amp have been included in the top 10 for Fast Company’s annual list of the world’s most innovative companies. Unsurprising, project management tool Asana, Zoom and Slack take out the top three spots following a year where remote work and communication came to the fore, with Atlassian recognised... Read more »


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The Sonos Roam is a $169 Bluetooth speaker with some cool tricks up its sleeve

It’s official: Sonos today unveiled the Roam, a small Bluetooth speaker promising big sound and unique features to help it stand out from the crowd. The announcement was nearly completely spoiled by leaks, but it’s nonetheless an important new product for the audio company A smaller and lighter follow-up to the excellent Sonos Move, the […]


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Critics blast Biden administration for denying entry to thousands of people still affected by Trump's 'Muslim ban'

The Diversity Visa program is intended to offer a legal path to citizenship for groups of people underrepresented in the traditional immigration pool.


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Songclip raises $11M to bring more licensed music to social media

The team behind Songclip thinks that social media could use more music. Yes, music is a big part of the experience on a handful of apps like TikTok and Triller, but Songclip co-founder and COO John vanSuchtelen told me, “That is not the end of how music is going to be a feature, that is […]


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In a first for Europe, Passion Capital will crowd-fund part of its new $62M fund from retail investors

Passion Capital, one of the UK’s first early-stage VCs, is to crowd-fund the final stage of its latest £45 million fund ($62.5m), Passion Capital Fund III. TechCrunch understands this is the first time retail investors have been invited to become LPs in a VC fund, at least in Europe. The move is a highly unusual one for a VC, where LPs are normally drawn from Pension funds and family offices, rather than the ‘person on the street’.


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You're Less Likely to Be Happy Once You Start Making More Than This Amount, Studies Say

Money doesn't make you a more generous person or buy more happiness, according to researchers.


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Monday, March 8, 2021

Twitter reacts to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Oprah interview

The internet went wild over the charged Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview.


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The Surface Laptop 4 may arrive in April with both AMD and Intel options

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 is an excellent laptop, but some people lamented that it was only available in an AMD configuration for the 15-inch model. Worry not, for it seems the Surface Laptop 4 may allow you more choice between Team Red or Team Blue. The rumor comes courtesy of German site WinFuture, which has […]


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Tom and Jerry accidentally became the Snyder Cut for a hot minute

The Snyder cut of Tom and Jerry


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A billionaire has been trying to sell his Versailles-inspired mansion for nearly 8 years — and it's finally set to sell at a 47% discount. Look inside the Manhattan townhouse.

Originally listed for $114 million in 2013, the Upper East Side townhouse is now set to sell for roughly $60 million.


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SpaceX Plans to Beam Its Starlink Internet to Vehicles | Digital Trends

SpaceX wants to beam internet from its Starlink satellites to vehicles on Earth, including aircraft, ships, large trucks, and RVs.


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Zack Snyder's 'Justice League' cut leaked early on HBO Max

The Snyder Cut of 'Justice League' leaked, but HBO Max pulled it before anyone could finish all four hours.


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Max Q: Starship’s good landing (and less good post-landing)

Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox. Sometimes even the biggest successes look like failures on video. That’s the theme of this week, because the biggest news by far was SpaceX’s test launch of its latest Starship prototype in […]


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Intel wants to make cloud encryption tougher than ever

Fully homomorphic encryption enables encrypted data to be processed without being decrypted


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2022 Kia EV6 electric crossover teased with sleek looks and flush door handles

Kia's first dedicated EV will debut later this month, riding on the Hyundai Motor Group's new E-GMP platform.


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SpaceX seeks FCC’s OK to extend Starlink satellite service to vehicles, ships, planes

SpaceX wants the FCC to authorize the operation of equipment extending the company’s Starlink satellite internet service to aircraft, ships and moving vehicles.


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Zoom founder Eric Yuan transfers $6bn of his shares

His personal wealth soared as the video conferencing platform became a household name during the pandemic.


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We all hate Facebook. So why aren't we deleting our accounts?

"I do not enjoy the platform at all."


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Dell’s new G15 is a speckled gaming laptop coming to China first

Paintless models are also available


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Apple may announce AirTags and new iPads as soon as March 23

According to a couple of leakers with solid track records, including Chinese leaker ‘Kang’ (via @DuanRui1205) and John Prosser, Apple may hold its next event as soon as March 23. Incidentally, that’s the same day OnePlus is set to launch its new phones. Apple is expected to announce its long-awaited AirTags — a fancy item-tracking system […]


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In the US, vaccinated people can gather indoors, the CDC says.

What new CDC guidance says about indoor gatherings, and what we still don't know.


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