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Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors

Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'

Any Encoding, Ever

Is Facebook's “Prophet” the Time-Series Messiah, or Just a Naughty Boy?

Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first free market more than 3K years ago

Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps

The Most Precious Resource Is Agency

Success in Reversing Dementia in Mice Sets the Stage for Human Clinical Trials

Supreme Authority: How Webster’s Dictionary Defined American Cultural Beliefs

Are Beliefs Like Clothes?

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

How to make almost any digital piano sound like the real thing

SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll

What’s an Intellivision Amico? Console’s leaky dev portal offers hints

Asking Developers to Do QA Is Broken. Here’s Why Anyone Should Own QA

Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring – Join Our 100% Distributed Fintech Team

Funazushi: The fermented predecessor of modern sushi

Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

Mux (YC W16) is hiring full-stack developers to focus on Elixir and TypeScript

Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave

Metaphors in Games (2016)

Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download

Breakthrough in 3D scanning means results are 4500% more accurate

MicroMac Technology (2000)

Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice

Designing like a joint cognitive system

Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame

NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised

Command Line Interface for Signal

Canada to Ban Sale of New Fuel-Powered Cars and Light Trucks from 2035

Reviving extinct species may soon be possible

Let's Build a Chip with Math

The web browser I'm dreaming of

Zero Knowledge

An Elixir adoption success story

Beets: the music geek’s media organizer

Show HN: A fun way to check Bitcoin’s price.

Storytelling – Mamet’s Conflict Airing Theory

Resistance and Voltage Dividers

Researchers translate a bird's brain activity into song

Show HN: A 13.3“ battery-powered e-paper picture frame to display digital art

Starlink Requires $30B Investment

BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) Is hiring a Principal Engineer

Windows 11 Will Leave Millions of PCs Behind, & MS Is Struggling to Explain Why

Incremental Note-Taking

What mRNA Is Good For, and What It Maybe Isn’t

A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Remote Senior Software Engineer

Cities Are Not Loud: Cars Are Loud – Not Just Bikes

Confessions of a serial startup software developer

Make Your Cluster Swim

There is no substitute for hard work

Simple Test Reveals If Your Mental Images Are More Vivid Than Other People's

Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home

Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels

YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch

The Sears Tele-Games Pinball Breakaway

Prefix Sums and Their Applications (1990) [pdf]

A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014)

One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held over 1B dead at 41

PastBook launches a Google Photos-esque, AI-assisted photobook app for iOS

Microsoft brings Xbox Cloud Gaming to PC and iOS, no invite required

A New Push to Make Ecocide an International Crime

Groundbreaking new bridge design could transform rail crossings across the UK

Show HN: Art Generator Neoplasticism

Nvidia Vid2vid-Cameo Demo

SIRUM (YC W15) is hiring to make access to medicine more equitable

Nullfs: A virtual black hole file system that behaves like /dev/null

Show HN: Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp

El Carro: Run Oracle Databases on Kubernetes

Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp

Big tech campus at old Fry’s north San Jose store site pushes ahead

Garage Door Monitor

The parallel universe of FireWire hubs

A rediscovered lost memoir about John Locke

Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

Math Rendering Is Wrong

Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine

The genius of William Shawn

I made Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer Emulator in C++

Near

Metformin trial reduces seizures and brain tumours in Tuberous Sclerosis

BLisp: A Statically Typed Lisp Like Language

We’re not yet ready for what’s already happened

Hiding in Plain Sight: Merle Oberon

Fiido D11 review: This folding ebike has good looks, low weight, and solid range

Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash

Substack (YC W18) is hiring engineers to build the future of writing

The wonderful world of Surreal numbers

One Year in Hell (2013)

Reverse-engineering the Final Fantasy: Theatrhythm track format

Google starts adding “no reliable sources” tag to some search engine results

Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood

Notes on streaming large API responses

The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture

Cellular: A command line elementary cellular automaton visualizer

Why YouTube isn't as addictive as TikTok

Austin Cyclists Split on Sharing Bike Lanes with Pizza Delivery Robots

Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Reveal Quantum Gravity

Designing Display Pixel Layouts for Under-Panel Cameras [pdf]

Advancing Bridge Inspection

Why Did We Ever Think the First Programming Language Didn't Matter?

Harvesting Active Directory credentials via HTTP Request Smuggling

I spent 5 years writing my own operating system

The Hills Are Alive with the Flows of Physics

Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds

YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative

The School for Sysadmins Who Can’t Timesync Good

Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)

Detection Script to help identify why your PC isn't Windows 11 ready

ATM NFC Hack

AMD Quietly Launches Recycled Xbox Series X APU as 4700S Desktop Kit

Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring Product Managers

The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

Starting with Kafka

Goodbye C++, Hello C

Gloss3D – an open source 3D Modeler for Linux and Windows

Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?

Why Geology Is Our Destiny

Game Theory Through Examples [pdf]

MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Correctly implementing a spinlock in Modern C++

The Death of Alpha on NT (1999)

Queer in tech: Why remote work is necessary no matter how great your office is

Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?

Cats and the Good Life

Weather Forecasting Tricks Series: Timing a Front (2004)

Ask HN: What's your experience working for a YC backed startup?

Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Why the text terminal cursor is important for Accessibility

Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [pdf]

U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but no aliens

OneSignal (Messaging and Push Notification APIs) is hiring a full stack engineer

2400 of 10k Substances in Plastics May Persist, Bioaccumulate and Be Toxic To Us

Final Fantasy Remasters Reignite Controversies over Pixel Art

Does God Control the Weather? (2004)

The Miami condo collapse is a devastating reminder of America's landfill problem

OpenTrees: A data vis of millions of publicly maintained trees around the world

GPBoost: Combining Tree-Boosting with Gaussian Process and Mixed Effects Models

A bit of background on compilers exploiting signed overflow (2016)

Show HN: DNS-powered website with no back end

For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing

The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay

JWT Tokens are NOT safe

Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown

Password with Argon2 Algorithm, the Winner of the Password Hashing Competition

Cupcake - A Rust library for lattice-based additive homomorphic encryption

Windows 11 will run Android apps thanks to Amazon and Intel

EvalAI: An Open-Source Alternative to Kaggle

Smoothstep Integral

Windows 11 announcement: Everything you need to know

U.S. government prepares to issue landmark report on UFOs

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

The Rich, Weird, and Frustrating World of Depression-Era Travel Guides

Tiny Acquisitions: Buy and sell tiny projects that are worth less than $5k

Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange

Mobile NixOS for Phones and Tablets

Parentheses Are Just Typechecking

AtoB (YC S20) – Stripe for Transportation – hiring early engineers and operators

McKeeman Form

How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs

Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?

P4: Open-Source Programming Language for Protocol-Independent Packet Processing

Meritocracy and Its Defects

Tucson copter cop says mysterious, ‘sophisticated’ super-drone ‘like no other’

The Health Benefits of Coffee

Facet.space — A new space for remixable pro image editing

Opinion-Driven Design

Joan Didion’s Long View

Review: Genelec’s 8341A is pretty much the ‘perfect’ bookshelf speaker (if you’ve got $6K)

Will Work for Air-Conditioning

Ask Dang: What are some statistics about the HN community?

Rainforest (YC S12) Is Hiring Senior Engineers, Globally and Remote

AGQA: A Benchmark for Compositional, Spatio-Temporal Reasoning – Sail Blog

Pulling GitHub into the Linux kernel process

Homotopy Type Theory

Lego Island Rebuilder

YouTube: “Older Unlisted videos will be made Private unless you opt out”

FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

Synthetic Minds (YC S18) is hiring a compiler engineer for program synthesis

Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted

Unravelling the Enigma of Bird Magnetoreception

Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat

Is the pandemic accelerating automation? Don’t be so sure

Effects of cat ownership on the gut microbiota of owners

The Teamsters Announce Coordinated Nationwide Project to Unionize Amazon

New Kind of Paper

Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)

The string type is broken (2013)

Digitising Rural Land Records, One Drone at a Time

Why Success is more Luck than Hard Work

Facebook turns WhatsApp into a shopping hub with virtual storefronts

Racing Game in ClojureScript

The “self-made” myth: Why hard work isn’t enough to reach the top

Effects of cat ownership on the gut microbiota of owners

Roamkasten – a practical how-to guide to optimize Zettelkasten in Roam Research

What Is Ranked-Choice Voting and Why Is New York Using It?

Ignore the Kingman at your own peril

The Silence Barrier [pdf]

Curiosity Damned the Cat

Intel restructures and creates new business units and leadership roles

SafeButler (YC S17) Is Hiring a Marketing Associate

How Online Dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting[pdf]

Saffron as an Antidepressant

Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma

Kats: One stop shop for time series analysis in Python

Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]

Ask HN: Please help me get in touch with Apple's email privacy engineers

US Navy set off a 40k-pound explosive on its new supercarrier

Apple Daily to shut in days unless government agrees to plea to unfreeze assets

'game of life' with rules to enable evolution

GAN Theft Auto

Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever

Ditching OpenPGP, a new approach to signing APT repositories

Turning a Classic CRT into a Smart TV

What it felt like to be awake during invasive brain surgery

Rocky Linux 8.4 GA

Review: The Tenways ebike is a lightweight, stealthy steal for under $1500

Raiders player Carl Nassib comes out as gay, first active player in NFL history

All music used by government services must feature Quebec artists

Ask HN: A good Linux laptop below 1000€

Name and Shame: LoanStreet (NY) cheated me out of equity

Ever-increasing home values are a Ponzi scheme

Facebook welcomes Team Trump back with open arms and wallets

Bright (YC W15) Is Hiring

Pfizer to Pay $2.3B for Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History

Machine Learning Cohorts: A Synthesis

Towing a Tesla at 70 MPH replenishes battery at fast charger rates

New York congressman puts forward federal right-to-repair bill

Policies that make the poor less poor

HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swapping

I Found Myself in the Game Industry (2013)

Japan government backs 4-day workweek

Mindat.org, the largest open database of minerals, rocks, and meteorites

The “API Mandate” memo at Amazon

The Ice-V: a simple, compact RISC-V RV32I implementation in Silice

‘Undreamed Shores’ Review: The Women Who Changed Anthropology

Curcumin: A bioavailable blocker of TNF and other pro-inflammatory biomarkers

Subset Vector Quantiser

China beats US in patent filings for second straight year

Gramps – Free Genealogy Software

Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind

Learning to love a rigid and inflexible language

Imp: A full-stack relational language built around incremental maintenance

What Is Going on at Yale Law School?

Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain

Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering to Scale Product

Constraints (1981) [pdf]

Baby Boom or Bust?

Gossip Dissemination

XUAN-Bike: Self-riding, riderless bike

A compact quantum-computer that fits in 19-inch server racks

As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales

How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It

Joining CSV and JSON data with an in-memory SQLite database

Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) [video]

Moonshot to establish software development centre in Irish capital

The EU: Made in America

The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly

Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

Renoise – a DAW with a tracker-like interface

New Machine Learning Gems for Ruby

Korea revokes approvals for 1,700 communication equipment, devices

Deep reinforcement learning will transform manufacturing as we know it

Why Covid-19 may now feel like a 'bad cold' – with headache, runny nose

A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone

A quest for safe text formatting API

Taxes Are for the Little People

“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”

Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

Community Phone Company (YC W19) Is Hiring

When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death

Thoughts on managing engineering teams

No, millennials don't have it worse than previous generations

Confessions of a bitter cripple (2015)

Adafruit interviews Siemens SupplyFrame, the future of Hackaday, Tindie and more

Kazakhstan’s forest is the birthplace of modern apples

BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes

Minimum Viable Self

Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

America, Stop Moving West

America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government

Fly Straight, Dammit (2019)

Excess deaths and SARS-CoV2 vaccinations in Scotland

In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (2015)

High-Throughput Random Number Generation Using Quad Row Activation in DRAM Chips [pdf]

Ask HN: What does an ML Engineer do?

Verkle Trees

SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (1978)

I Know the Secret to the Quiet Mind. I Wish I’d Never Learned It

EasyPost is building the logistics platform for ecommerce

Vespucci – OpenStreetMap Editor for Android

So You Want to Write a Book: The Proposal

[ASAP] Correction to “Chemical Synthesis and Biological Evaluations of Adiponectin Collagenous Domain Glycoforms”

[ASAP] Snapshots of Ce70 Toroid Assembly from Solids and Solution

Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product

DenoDB

The Siberian unicorn lived at the same time as modern humans

Hello, World! Welcome to the Offbeat Computation Club!

Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind

Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a VP of Product Marketing

HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law

HBO Max accidentally sent a Integration Test email to many people

Ribosome – A simple generic code generation tool

Useful and useless code comments

Apology

Ring provided 100 LAPD officers with free devices to influence adoption

The Document Culture of Amazon

25 Micro-Habits of Effective Managers

I wish I could write this well

Biochemical Pathway Maps

Uefa warns teams could be fined if they move drinks at news conferences

Still Farther South: Poe and Pym’s Suggestive Symmetries

Draftbit (YC W18) Is Hiring Senior Engineers (Reason, React Native, GraphQL)

[ASAP] Norstictic Acid Is a Selective Allosteric Transcriptional Regulator