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9 underrated marketing tips that turned Slack into a software giant

Report: Podcasts have grown 129,000% (yes, percent) in the last decade

Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Strikingly (YC W13) is hiring product designers and engineers in Shanghai

Rethinking of CGI as a selfhosted lambda server

Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer

Programming as Theory Building – Peter Naur

The 5.7 kernel is out

America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

Is this the most orderly nation?

Prowords

Mimir – A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Imager, Spectrometer and Polarimeter

Anonymous returns: Hacker group targets police and Trump administration

Website Will Selfdestruct

San Francisco Startup Brex Lays Off 62 Employees

An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]

The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos

Hacker News Security

Unity MMORPG Boilerplate - Multiplayer in Unity Made Easy

How to write an Amstrad CPC emulator

Beekeeper Studio is a free and open source SQL editor and database manager

Show HN: Open GIF Search

A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere

StoneCutter: A Very High Level Instruction Set Design Language

Why Artificial Brains Need Sleep

My Messy Analytics Breakup

After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californians are getting infected

Show HN: Caldera – Phoenix LiveView for Node and React

Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories

Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

I Can't Breathe

The Myers diff algorithm that is used in Git (2017)

Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

Making a SNES game in 2020 (using modern tools)

The Unix Operating System (1982) [video]

The extra $600 in unemployment insurance has been effective

Cracking WordPress passwords with 20 lines of Go

Nukemap

US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high

Operation of a silicon quantum processor unit cell above one kelvin

Powers of Two (2017)

Blood of recovered Covid-19 patients is becoming a hot commodity

SQLite Turns 20

What did Schrodinger's Cat experiment prove? (2013)

Google delays Android 11 Beta Launch Show, says 'now is not the time to celebrate'

The Frameworkless Movement

ESA's Solar Orbiter will pass through comet ATLAS' tail on May 31-June 1

Licenses in a Subscription World

World's deepest octopus captured on camera

Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed

What is emergence?

Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police Department

The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH

SpaceX Starship SN4 launch vehicle prototype explodes after static engine test

[ASAP] Mesoscopic to Macroscopic Electron Transfer by Hopping in a Crystal Network of Cytochromes

[ASAP] Enzymatic Primary Amination of Benzylic and Allylic C(sp3)–H Bonds

[ASAP] Development and Mechanistic Interrogation of Interrupted Chain-Walking in the Enantioselective Relay Heck Reaction

[ASAP] Enantioselective Reductive Coupling of Imines Templated by Chiral Diboron

[ASAP] Metal–Organic Frameworks Integrate Cu Photosensitizers and Secondary Building Unit-Supported Fe Catalysts for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

[ASAP] 2-Butene Tetraanion Bridged Dinuclear Samarium(III) Complexes via Sm(II)-Mediated Reduction of Electron-Rich Olefins

[ASAP] Two-Phase Synthesis of Taxol

[ASAP] Proton–Electron Transfer to the Active Site Is Essential for the Reaction Mechanism of Soluble ?9-Desaturase

[ASAP] UV Light Generation and Challenging Photoreactions Enabled by Upconversion in Water

How to avoid stereotypes when designing for global markets

U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China

Maigret’s Room

Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook

Twitter now lets you schedule tweets — here’s how

Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third

Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity

Satire sites run fake headlines about Mark Zuckerberg to test Facebook

Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row

“GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners”, Brown et al. 2020 (OpenAI)

1989 California Medfly Attack

GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners

OpenSSL 3.0

What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)

Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function is about to die in SSH

The Epic Games Primer

Mux (YC W16) is hiring engineers to work on cloud video infrastructure

Deno Is a Browser for Code

Chromebooks managed through Google Family Link can now install any extensions

How to start a Google Meet session from Gmail

The Writings of Leslie Lamport

Google Voice added to Gmail web app, now lets you transfer calls on all platforms

[ASAP] Highly Enantioselective O–H Bond Insertion Reaction of a-Alkyl- and a-Alkenyl-a-diazoacetates with Water

8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

From punch cutters to number crunchers (2017)

The “OO” Antipattern

Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter fact-checked Trump’s false voting claims

Editing plant chromosomes using molecular scissors

SpaceX and NASA’s crewed mission postponed until the weekend due to bad weather

Draft of Executive Order on Online Censorship [pdf]

“Maxwell's equations of software” examined (2008)

Circle Medical (YC S15) is hiring an iOS engineer in Montreal

OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight

Poems of my Father #3 – The First Snowfall

The Puritan Bohemian

Show HN: Simple-blogger – blog generated from GitHub project READMEs

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2

An English Clergyman’s Advice for Quarantine

We reduced AWS costs by 67% on our streaming data pipeline

Google Chat's desktop application is now a Progressive Web App

The Day AppGet Died

Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller

Regexes vs. Combinatorial Parsing

[ASAP] Visible-Light-Induced Radical Carbo-Cyclization/-Diborylation through Triplet Energy Transfer between a Gold Catalyst and Aryl Iodides

[ASAP] Singlet Fission in a Pyrrole-Fused Cross-Conjugated Skeleton with Adaptive Aromaticity

How countries are using genomics to help avoid a second coronavirus wave

macOS Catalina 10.15.5

Don’t confuse following your gut with your ego — or your business will fail