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Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI

The Lost History of the ‘City’ of Brooklyn

Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head

'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs in medicine

Reasons to Learn Redux as a JavaScript Developer

Chinese Scientist Accused of Smuggling Samples, Amid Crackdown on Research Theft

Ask HN: How do you responsibly report security bugs to open-source projects?

Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

I asked a hacker to spy on me via my Amazon account

How to stop AI from perpetuating harmful biases

A music player for the TS80 soldering iron

Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is

U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Declines to Smallest in Three Years

Happy 10th Birthday, Krebsonsecurity.com

Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?

Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)

Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries to Protect Swatting Targets

Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?

Amazon is about to host a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters

The Four-Inch Flight – A Lesson from History

Xinu Is Not Unix

Verdigris: Qt Without Moc

Unblocking Xbox clips and the future of shareable gaming

The battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age

The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out

Becoming a CEO

Too Much Crypto [pdf]

KernType – A Kerning Game

Huawei’s Revenue Hits Record $122B in 2019 Despite U.S. Campaign

How to recognize an alien when you see one

[ASAP] Electron Transfer Reorganization Energies in the Electrode–Electrolyte Double Layer

Listening Back Browser Add-On Tranlates Cookies into Sound [video]

Deep learning approach demonstrates improved accuracy of screening mammography

Researchers observe brain-like behavior in nanoscale device

The Red and The Black

What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

Adaptive Loading – Improving web performance on low-end devices

Our favorite things on the internet in 2019

The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse

X-Ray Fourier Ptychography

CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping

The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress for decades

German expressions that don’t exist in English and their wisdom

Empirical Comparison of DOS Kernels (2015)

The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones

Chips Are Getting Noisier

Tarot for Hackers

The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

The Security Architecture of Qmail (2004) [pdf]

Super-soldier T-cells fight cancer better after a transformational DNA delivery

Andrew Taylor: I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill

Show HN: Chromda – Serverless Website Screenshots

Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)

Video: A Language for Making Movies

Quanta’s Year in Math and Computer Science (2019)

How writing began, and other unexpectedly funny stories about cuneiform [video]

Taking a look at a covert CIA virtual fencing solution [video]

Fixing employee access should be your top security priority in 2020

The Bastard Operator From Hell

I pimped up my house with these cool LEDs and I’m still a loser

Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?

My Decade in Google Searches

Tell HN: Space Launch Now – Spaceflight News and Events

Stroom is a highly scalable data storage, processing and analysis platform

A look inside TSMC

The Ecosystem Is Moving

Build an Ioniser in Under $10

Wisdom (albatross)

Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst

YouTube seeks 'responsibility'

SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs

Atomic-Array Optical Clock with Single-Atom Readout

Uncover, Understand, Own – Regaining Control over Your AMD CPU [video]

Chinese criminal gangs spreading swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs

These prosthetics designers harness AI to assist India’s amputees

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine

Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

FreeDB Is Shutting Down

YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]

Research: DNA pinpoints region in northern Botswana as humanity’s birthplace

Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust

Pro-Indian 'fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe'

Interactive Lorenz Attractor

The 20 biggest tech flops of the 2010s

Why tennis balls are yellow or green

To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down

First-ever electric motorbike made in Nepal

Optimizing for the Speed of Light

Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]

From the iPhone 4 to the S7, these are TNW’s most beloved phones of the 2010s

A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines

Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

Esterel – Synchronous programming language for complex, reactive systems

Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products

Show HN: Localdots – HTTPS domains for localhost with autoconfig and hot reload

Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev

Variable Fonts: The Future of Web Type (2016)

Genetically modifying mosquitoes to prevent disease carries unknown risks