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3 biggest post-corona trends shaping the future of work

Oops! Apple let a piece of Mac malware run without warning

How Predictable Is Fiction?

A Neural-Based Program Decompiler (2019)

Understanding How the Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm Works

FreeCol: Turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization

Applebot

The database I wish I had

The Puzzle Toad

The Ecommerce Surge

MIT Drake

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? (2018)

Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet

I tried a hand sanitizer-spraying watch and have never felt less clean

An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia

Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives?

Hapax Legomenon

A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from Z to Shining Z

Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/Ubuntu

Motorola releases Android 10 kernel code for Moto E 2020 and One Fusion

'Visitor sharing' feature for Google Drive exits beta for G Suite subscribers, making it easier to share content

Writing a Lisp to x86-64 compiler

Win “Active Hours” underscores how you’re not in control of your devices (2016)

The next standard iPad might finally ditch its bezels

Visualizing TSNE Maps with Three.js

Cloudlfare's Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage

FB Executive Supported India’s Modi, Disparaged Opp. In Internal Messages

Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?

Meeting lengths are changing during coronavirus remote work

Sum Types in Julia and Rust

High-tech tracking reveals ‘secret world of birds’

Self-driving cars learn to read the body language of people on the street

LineageOS 16.0 arrives for Pixel 2 and 2 XL, 17.1 coming soon for more Pixel phones

Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?

Physics Is Cool

K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

Klipsch's excellent-sounding T5 true wireless earbuds are just $79 on Amazon

An overview of the science on function length

Waiting for Gödel (2016)

Last Week on My Mac: Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?

Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones

The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet

Banks create money out of thin air, but it's less impressive than it sounds

Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace

The rise and fall for the American R&D lab

Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

Secrets of Elite College Admissions

Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner

Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++

Guaranteed Optimization: Proving Nullspace Properties of Compilers (2002)

Colorblind travelers can take in fall's true colors with special new lenses

Nagara Rimba Nusa: A Take on Indonesia's New Capital City

Releasing Pleroma 2.1.0

So you want to roll your own crypto?

Griffon: a desktop application development platform for the JVM

New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra

Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research

TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database [pdf]

Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design

A Command Line vs. GUI Meeting

Lord of the Manor: a medieval city builder game

Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

Deep Dive into PHP 8's JIT

How to Pick a Quack: Data

Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown

Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving

Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers

I just got a COVID-19 test — who now knows I got it?

How to Start a Shopify Store in Just 5 Simple Steps

Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift

Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps

The Ekranoplan Is Stranded Off a Beach

The Dark Core of Personality

A broken algorithm that poisoned American transportation

The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the liability system (2012) [pdf]

How to Fix Gimbal Lock in N-Dimensions

Malloc Geiger Counter

GH Archive

Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016)

Life Is Short

Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock

Lynn Conway, transgender pioneer of VLSI design methodology

Facebook Says Apple Blocked It from Informing About App Store 30% Fee

Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes

American Academy of Sleep Medicine: Eliminate daylight saving time

Flexport is hiring employees all over the world

Show HN: GoFlip – Convert videos into Flip-Book-like versions of themselves

Google Pay starts testing NFC-based card payments in India

Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon dropping overages for Texas and Louisiana residents after Hurricane Laura

Pardon the Intrusion #25: Ransomware goes pro

Convicted of Sex Crimes, but with No Victims

Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’

Bro, This Is Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know

Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk

Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here

Has to Be a Joke, Because If It’s Not

Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture

Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom

Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model

Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas

Apple to start requiring written consent for third party API usage in apps

New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review

Clearly Zoom still don't understand GDPR

In Ashgabat

[ASAP] A Fluorogenic Trehalose Probe for Tracking Phagocytosed

[ASAP] Transition-State Vibrational Analysis and Isotope Effects for COMT-Catalyzed Methyl Transfer

[ASAP] Na Doping in PbTe: Solubility, Band Convergence, Phase Boundary Mapping, and Thermoelectric Properties

[ASAP] Precise Dimerization of Hollow Fullerene Compartments

[ASAP] Atomistic Insights into the Stability of Pt Single-Atom Electrocatalysts

[ASAP] Unsaturated Alcohols as Chain-Transfer Agents in Olefin Polymerization: Synthesis of Aldehyde End-Capped Oligomers and Polymers

Gamescom opening night is all about Star Wars and VR

Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look

TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions

Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation

Show HN: Computer Music with Python

Photon – a live demo of a natural language interface to databases

Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it

Set the default branch for newly-created repositories

Nobel Noblemen

Henry Zhu: A leap of faith, Committing to open source

Live View of Hurricane Laura

The Selectric Typewriter

The Potentially Revolutionary Celera 500L Aircraft Officially Breaks Cover

Andy Matuschak's Notes

[ASAP] Direct Synthesis of Cyclopropanes from -Dialkyl Groups through Double C–H Activation

[ASAP] 13C Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Spectroscopy Shows Acetyl-CoA Synthase Binds Two Substrate CO in Multiple Binding Modes and Reveals the Importance of a CO-Binding “Alcove”

[ASAP] A Porphyrinic Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Tailoring the Spacing between Active-Sites through Chain-Based Inorganic Building Units

Securing Lasting Freedoms for All

D3 6.0

Pachama (YC W19) seeks ML and SW engineers to solve climate change

The Illusion of Control in Web Design (2018)

Why Johnny Won't Upgrade

Show HN: Teal – a serverless VM and programming language

How Drakeo the Ruler recorded an amazing-sounding album from jail

A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating

Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs

radEventListener: Client-side Framework Performance

Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%

A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)

Tesorio Is Hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer and Senior Product Designer

New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion

PCI Express Retimers vs. Redrivers: An Eye-Popping Difference (2019)

Lightmatter's Mars SoC Bends Light to Process Data

My AI Timelines Have Sped Up

Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects

Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

You want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip

Thiel Fellow startup Luminar, developing LIDAR, valued at $3.4B in IPO

Vanta (YC W18) is hiring as we build simple security and compliance for startups

Practical tips for better microcopy

The Fitbit Sense is a smartwatch that can track your stress levels