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I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write

American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates

William S. Burroughs in New York

Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring

Why printers add secret tracking dots

Ian Manuel, Survivor of Excessive Child Punishment, Tells His Story

Creating a DOOM-inspired aesthetic with PlayCanvas – an interactive article

An Elastic Model of the Holding Power of Rock Climbing Anchors

What if JavaScript had a synchronous async flavor?

FBI Seized $900K from Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says

ASCII Play

Air – Live reload when developing with Go

Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years

Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence

Six corporations control 90% of America media

A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison (2020)

Can your PC handle Windows 11? Here’s how to find out

How hard is it to get counting right?

Cy384/ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9

Compose.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer

The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles

Comma Three Devkit

Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch Covid. None of them helped

Founder of EV startup Nikola charged with misleading investors

“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism. “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’

Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?

Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details

Information Geometry

Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018)

Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? [pdf]

Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]

Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

Warrior Eros

Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly

I Am Parting with My Crypto Library

The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

SoloSuit (YC W21) is hiring a remote, Senior Engineer

Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employees debate remote work

Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees return to NYC

Memory Management in Lobster

Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

Cash Flood Drives Use of Fed Reverse Repo to Record $1T

Descriptorless Files for Io_uring

Worlds Apart: Technology, Remote Work, and Equity

Stat of the day: 38% of remote workers work from bed

JPG vs. RAW: Get it right the first time (2009)

Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient

The Next Generation of Boats

Pleasure Domes and Postal Routes

Document Database Transaction Models

Never Gonna Give You Up (by Rick Astley) reaches one billion views

One Tenth of a Second

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

AWS Support for Internet Explorer 11 Is Ending

Special intelligence: The exceptional life of Cora Du Bois (2016)

UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application

The Windows 11 beta is finally out — here’s how to install it

Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver

Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles

A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI

Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

“We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”

UpCodes is hiring our first PM to automate compliance for architects

Where Is the World’s Best Weather? (2020)

Automated Configuration and Selection of SAT Solvers [pdf]

Dean Preston is holding SF back

Switching from GMP to GCC's __int128 reduced run time by 95% (2016)

How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf]

Calculus Made Easy

The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture

Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs

First detection of light from behind a black hole

Potoooooooo

Spiritual Bypassing

Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with Git bisect run

Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

Amiga at NASA (1999)

Dusty Hill of ZZ Top Dead

Journey (YC W21) is hiring a front-end centric founding engineer

Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans

The Twopenny Hangover

What I Know About Cleaning and Seasoning Cast-Iron Skillets

US home prices surge 17% in May, fastest in 17 years

Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

'Arthur,' the Longest-Running Kids Animated Series in History, Is Ending

In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (1984)

[ASAP] Beyond Radical Rebound: Methane Oxidation to Methanol Catalyzed by Iron Species in Metal–Organic Framework Nodes

[ASAP] [Pt2Cu34(PET)22Cl4]2–: An Atomically Precise, 10-Electron PtCu Bimetal Nanocluster with a Direct Pt–Pt Bond

[ASAP] Interconvertible Living Radical and Cationic Polymerization using a Dual Photoelectrochemical Catalyst

Facebook creates new unit to build a “metaverse”

'No-code' startup Bubble raises $100 mln in round led by Insight Partners

A/B testing and the historic lift paradox

Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion

KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer

Co-working with friends over video in virtual gather.town office

Non-Standard Analysis in ACL2 (2001) [pdf]

How Tracing Uncovers Half-Truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure

Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020)

Review: The MaxPro is a full gym that fits in a backpack — with one important quirk

Here’s why thousands of Activision-Blizzard employees are planning to strike

Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

Windows 96

We need to talk about testing

Mapping Modal Filters and LTNs

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring our first analytics engineer

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues

Light-to-moderate drinking tied to lower risk of heart attack and death

Turn off autofill in your password manager

Sirum (YC W15) Is Hiring a Lead Engineer to Improve Medicine Access

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers [pdf]

Index machine: an open source pick and place machine

Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born

Counterfactuals are not causality

Lying, corrupt, anti-American cops are running amok with AI

Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025

The Insecurity Industry

Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment

Was Jeanne Calment (longest living well documented person) actually two people?

APSE – A Personal Search Engine

Why DeFi is not a Ponzi Scheme

Compile your software

Debian for Mobile

Making The World's Most Detailed (Print) Maps

Jupiter (YC S19) is hiring a front-end engineer (SF/remote)

How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter

How to Make Cyanotypes

Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?

Time Travel: Running Python 3.7 on XP (2018)

Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more than it sounds

The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

Is Aging Inevitable?

Macro Edit: Democratizing Automation

No, a supercomputer won’t make your code run faster (2017)

Pronouncing Non-English Names for English Speakers

Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it's downright lethal

Doodle Champion Island Games Begin

Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.

1997: Achaea

The Hyper-Specialist Shops of Berlin (2019)

Transliterating Old-School Basic

Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code

The argument for switching off lights at night

I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi

Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim

Ampache: An open source web based audio/video streaming app and file manager

Paperspace (YC W15) is hiring Engineers to build a modern MLOps platform

UK Weather: Flooding in London after heavy rain

The Assange Case Is Collapsing – But It Remains a Travesty of Justice

PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: IBM Clone Computer

Pre-crime: Sheriff’s letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’

Why are used cars so expensive right now?

UK councils to display EU flags after UK dips into Covid recovery cash

To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook

Why Elite Romans Decorated Their Floors with Garbage

Apple, Facebook, Google Broke the Mobile Browser Market Undermining User Choice

Ivermectin Shows Us the Consequences of Politicized Science

Gas Engines, and the People Behind Them, Are Cast Aside for Electric Vehicles

A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System

Half of US states now using facial recognition to vet unemployment claims

China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul

CO₂ Coin: Decentralized Carbon Capture Blockchains (2021)

Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer

The Highest Forms of Wealth

Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool

Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2

GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. This will cause no issues

Cheapest Energy Storage Could Be New Iron-Air Battery

Amazon Echo Dot Does Not Wipe Personal Content After Factory Reset

28 Books recommended by open source technologists

Steven Weinberg 1933-2021

Inserting 130M SQLite Rows per Minute from a Scripting Language

Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) is hiring: C/C++ Systems Engineer to work on our fuzzing engine

New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots

LeVar Burton: 'Jeopardy ' host gig began 'scary,' ended fun

Ask HN: What Technologies Are Used for Google Doodle Champion Island Games?

How did you validate your webapp product/market fit?

Open Decision-Making

What did the ancient Romans eat?

pieces.app

A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub

Too much coffee can cause brain to shrink, raise risk of dementia by 53 percent

How to spot a good fake ID

Truman Capote and personality testing in the 1940s (2018)

Bezos and Branson not yet astronauts, US says

Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)

A 3°C world has no safe place

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov

5 games that might not suck so much if they got modern remakes

Gordian Software (YC W19) is hiring back end engineers

My Steam Game Revenue Stats

Tropical Rainforest Index

The Antikythera Mechanism – World Archaeology

[ASAP] Synthesis as an Expanding Resource in Human Milk Science

[ASAP] Enantioselective and Diastereodivergent Synthesis of Spiroindolenines via Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Cycloaddition

[ASAP] Pyrrole-Embedded Linear and Helical Graphene Nanoribbons

[ASAP] Strongly Red-Emissive Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)2]3+ Surpasses [Ru(bpy)3]2+

[ASAP] Dirhodium(II)/Xantphos-Catalyzed Relay Carbene Insertion and Allylic Alkylation Process: Reaction Development and Mechanistic Insights

Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code

RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%

SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners

Zip – How not to design a file format

Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds

Hacker News in the Style of Teletext

It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

Algorithmic Botany, Biological Modelling and Visualization Software

CIA Director Says He Is Escalating Efforts to Solve 'Havana Syndrome' Mystery

The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]

Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA

Disinformation: It’s History

This startup replaces your entire live-streaming production crew with AI

Apple is removing DOS emulator iDOS because it runs executable codes

The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp

0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011)

EasyPost (YC S13) is hiring to build the logistics platform for ecommerce

Translating Jabberwocky into Japanese

[ASAP] Transition Metal Ion FRET in the Gas Phase: A 10–40 Å Range Molecular Ruler for Mass-Selected Biomolecular Ions