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Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies

Review of “Microservices: The Big Picture” on Pluralsight by Antonio Goncalves

Twitter has just 3 weeks to comply with India’s new IT rules

Hydrogen buses and trucks could be the future for sustainable road transportation

How to Speak Cicada

Making Wi-Fi serial console adapters with old portable routers

New report details Beijing’s foreign influence operations in Canada

Oceanbase, yet another open source HTAP database

AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

Pynguin – Allow developers to generate Python unit tests automatically

Sevenhugs exits the universal remote business

NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Explained

High-Resolution Photorealistic Image Translation in Real-Time

Caught in the Study Web

Why have cameras and lenses become so expensive?

The Anxiety of Influencers

What every programmer should know about memory [pdf]

Chinese ‘Artificial Sun’ experimental fusion reactor sets world record

Send in the bugs, the Michelangelos need cleaning

SXS switching cutover to ESS, live at Glendale CA central office (1984) [video]

Former National Security Advisor Encourages Military Coup in USA

Xiaomi shows off its ultra-fast 200W wired and 120W wireless chargers

Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying

Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)

After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism

Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU

The Myth of the Olympics (2004)

In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report

I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine

Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado

Returns to Scale in Broken Windows

TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption

Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

Jonbar Hinge

Naomi Osaka faces default from Grand Slam for refusing to speak to media

Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare

Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years

The New York Times Uses the Dark Patterns It Derides

Daniel Stenberg: curl doesn't qualify for TravisCI free tier

Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL

Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News

Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater

Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this

The Sidney Opera House construction: A case of project management failure

“Computer science is not about computers”

All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019)

Airlines Will Postpone Serving Alcohol Amid Surge of In-Flight Violence

The Mammoth Pirates

Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think

Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives

Voice over IP: Protocols and Standards (1999)

Renaissance Science – X: Introduction of Algebra to the European academic canon

GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG

Scottish Café

Firesign Theatre’s ‘Dope Humor of the Seventies’

Dark Patterns Hall of Shame

How Did Chop Suey Become a Staple of Chinese American Cuisine?

Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls

New York’s Hyphenated History

Joseph Weizenbaum’s Original ELIZA

The pandemic revives interest in a morbid French financial scheme

What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)

Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep

Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

Ask HN: How to cope with the death of a dear person?

Security Issues with LastPass on Android

Franz Kafka: Manuscripts, drawings and personal letters go online

WASM powered Jupyter (notebook) running in the browser

Yamaha MOTOROiD

Amazon offers 'wellness chamber' for stressed staff

Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

Alphabet moonshot Loon is jolted by layoffs

Making the hard problem of consciousness easier

Tab (YC W15) Is Hiring Junior Developers (London, UK)

Apple’s Auto Layout for JavaScript

Wrigley and others are suing over look-alike THC treats

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection

How peculiar it is: on Edward Gorey

Why Is JRuby Slow?

Greywing (YC W21) Is Hiring (Remote) Front End Lead Engineers

[ASAP] Switching on H-Tunneling through Conformational Control

[ASAP] Crystal Structure of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Maturase HydE Bound to Complex-B

Have I Been Pwned: Open-Source in the .NET Foundation and Working with the FBI

Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer

What’s Wrong with Bob Dylan’s Biographers?

Spectral Passages (2013)

Have I Been Pwned goes open-source and teams up with the FBI on leaked passwords

Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

Boring Avatars – react library to generate custom avatars

Oldest recovered TV images (2013)

Experiments validate the possibility of helium rain inside Jupiter and Saturn

Virtuozzo’s Mature Linux Distribution VzLinux Now Available to Public

Idiosyncrasies of the HTML Parser

Americans Are on the Move. Their Stuff Doesn’t Always Follow

WordPress is 18

The history of lab leaks

80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System

Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower

ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

Please, Think Critically About College Admissions

QUIC is now RFC 9000

Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Technical End User Documentation Writer

A six figure meme making job at a legit company

Battlefield of the Cold War: Nevada Test Site 1951 - 1963 [pdf]

Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii (2019)

First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years

[ASAP] Vibrational Perturbation of the [FeFe] Hydrogenase H-Cluster Revealed by 13C2H-ADT Labeling

[ASAP] Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Euphorikanin A

An utterly crushing day for Big Oil

IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both

Facebook will now shame pages that share misinformation repeatedly

Why Microsoft finally dumped Internet Explorer after more than 25 years

"Irssi does not take a political stance"

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Review

Technical documentation that just works

Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link

River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up

Functional Programming in Go with Generics

Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests

How to hide like counts on Instagram — for your own posts and others

LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month

OpenHD - HD video, UAV telemetry, audio, and RC control

Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024

The Ghost Subway Station in Paris Where Films Come to Life

A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem

Rainforest (YC S12) Is Hiring Remote Engineers, Product Designers and CSM

Iceland played an unexpected and crucial role in the Second World War

I still like C and strongly dislike C++

Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch

[ASAP] Visualizing the Dynamic Metalation State of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1 in Bacteria Using a Reversible Fluorescent Probe

Online video platform Vimeo plunges on Nasdaq debut following spin-off

‘X-ray vision’ tech could soon see through rubble and help save disaster victims

Freenode Ops Take Control of 700 Channels

Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection

The First Rule of Bite Club? Talk About It

The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)

Why WhatsApp is dragging the Indian government to court this week

An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

When Do Programmers Retire? Is 35 the End?

Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap

M1RACLES: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability

Clojure by Example

Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought

Streetmix – A fun little urban design playground

American Solitude: Notes Toward a History of Isolation

How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever

USB-C will soon be able to charge at 240W, more than 2x its current limit