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Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions

It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is

The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years

Origins of ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by lidar

Fish freshness analysis with electronic tongue (2008) [pdf]

Pidgin – West African lingua franca (2016)

OmniDB – Open-Source Collaborative Environment for Database Management

Multipath Extensions for WireGuard [pdf]

Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager – so you can avoid them

4.3M Americans quit their jobs in August

Generally Intelligent Is Hiring Machine Learning Research Engineers (Remote, SF)

How the Maestro Got His Hands Back

Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities

The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images

Xt_sslpin: TLS Cert Pinning with Netfilter

It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is

Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?

Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception

Live Not by Lies (1974)

Open-source is eating the world: Ex-Firebase investor co-leads a $10m see (cont)

Hexing the Technical Interview (2017)

Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter

Death by Bureaucracy

Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tackle climate change

The AWARE Development Plan

The Long, Hidden History of the Viking Obsession with Werewolves

Hemingway Editor

I Miss the Old Internet

How Long Does It Take Ordinary People to “Get Good” at Chess?

Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?

Explaining Ruby Fibers

Flexport Is Hiring Engineers to Help Us Uncork Global Supply Chains

Ithkuil IV Language FAQ

Considerate Book Pricing

Developer's resume with fake buzzwords gets 90% replies, the actual one gets 0%

Fundamentals of Piano Practice

How I motivate myself to write

Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars

Is Genetics “Dark”?

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms – Russian Dog Head Experiment [video]

Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models

How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling

Path (YC S19) Is Hiring Founding Engineers

More than a third of white students lie about their race on college applications

Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch

Unique Astrolabe Discovered in Galicia's Viveiro Estuary

OpenWorm

Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph

Aurora Forecast

“Metaverse” creator reacts to Facebook name change

An Early-16th-Century Prayer Roll and the Holy Rood of Bromholm

Apple’s explanation for no Face ID on the MacBook Pro is nonsense

Vimconf 2021 – Oct 29, 30

Anatomy of a STARK

Katerra wanted to transform construction. It burnt $2B and shut down

Tadayuki Watanabe disproved a major conjecture about spheres

Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish

Roblox has been down for over 24 hours

Circular Harmonics

Don't rush to solutions

Why flat-Earthers are a clear and present threat to an AI-powered society

The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world

Why Is Houseplant Advice So Bad?

The Resurrection of Bass Reeves

Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

Better Operator Precedence

Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand

TSMC founder questions US move to rebuild chip supply chain

Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit

Byberry Mental Hospital, Philadelphia's House of Horrors

The Art of Hand-Carving Headstones Isn’t Dead Yet

Potato Toys (1931)

Here’s how Android ’12L’ makes tablets and foldables better

Seemingly Impossible Functional Programs

Stratechery – An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse

Keyence, the Japanese world-beating firm you've never heard of

A return to the general-purpose database

55 GiB/s FizzBuzz

Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots

Practical Time Machines

Earn.com will ruin email if it succeeds (2018)

The Animated Guide to Symex (Emacs Structural Editing with Lisp)

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

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Why are our brains shrinking?

URI-Based Integration

[ASAP] Electrochemical Storage of Atomic Hydrogen on Single Layer Graphene

[ASAP] Steric Effect Tuned Ion Solvation Enabling Stable Cycling of High-Voltage Lithium Metal Battery

The Codeless CTO

End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police

Expectations for Generics in Go 1.18

Jerry (YC S17) is hiring a senior software engineer

There Is No Bottom When It Comes to Section 230 Reform Proposals

MicroBooNE experiment’s first results show no hint of a sterile neutrino

Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science (2011)

Online GIF Tools – Simple, free and easy to use GIF utilities

No YAML

The Robot and the Baby (2004)

OpenTelemetry

Radio Station WWV

Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies

Artificial intelligence sheds light on how the brain processes language

Compute vs. Hardware

Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit

Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?

URI-Based Integration

How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS

Skio is hiring founding engineers (just raised $3.7m)

Paxos automatically determined safe and secure

One Typed Page

Giant, free index to world's research papers released online

Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops for Minuscule Cosmic Particles

Affordable 70 MPH electric motorcycle is already here and no one noticed

Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer

Hertz agrees to buy 100k Teslas

Retrieve a random Wikipedia page

Scientists think they can finally speak to whales. Maybe they shouldn’t?

4 improvements Google Maps should make for cyclists

Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home (Part 4 – Quadrature Controllers)

Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe

Maybe we need a moral panic about Facebook

Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross

A small Documerica Twitter bot

Wikivoyage has disappeared from DuckDuckGo

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (2006)

France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon

Announcing Vitess 12

Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning

Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Default Remote and Hiring

Why Lisp? (2015)

My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”

Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip

Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring an Integrations Engineer

I’m not a pilot, but I just flew a helicopter over California

System sniffs out hardware trojans in electromagnetic emissions

An Atlas of the Cosmos (2020)

Waiting for apt locks without hacky Bash scripts

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin unveils plans to occupy space

Jury hands victory to Facebook and Oculus VR founder in Rift ownership trial

macOS Monterey

Misskey: Alternative Fediverse software that also uses ActivityPub

The Opera Game

Tinysheet

BillionToOne (YC S17) is hiring a senior data scientist

My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)

The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text

A cactus that came back from being endangered

Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results

EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board

PiBox Mini – Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server

Resonate: A music streaming service structured as a cooperative

The Big Facebook Leak

MTA tests new subway map that evokes jettisoned 1972 version

Rewriting Reddit (2005)

On Impact-Effort Prioritization

Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills

Across Kazakhstan by rail

Show HN: Online editor to create animated SVG

Fork Freshness: Discover Active Forks of Abandoned GitHub Repositories

The World of Cricket Fighting

Latin by the Dowling Method

Signed Integers Are Asymmetrical

Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

The Mysterious Case of Mr. X

Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta due to bugs

We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018)

To learn a new language, read its standard library

Exosuit Designed in Woodruff School Helps with Awkward Lifts

Community Banking and Fintech

Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart

Tesorio (YC S15) is hiring – join our 100% distributed fintech team

A new history of the race to decipher DNA

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

Understanding the reasoning behind the four agile values

Indexing the Creator Economy

Idiomatic Clojure without sacrificing performance

How Thai food took over America (2019)

A Man, a Dog, a Walk Around the World

Prosecutors uncover money-laundering operation between US and Dubai

Goodnight Dune

Space-Related Applications of Forth (1998)

UK: Students could be prevented from taking university courses deemed low value

San Fransicko: A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco

Generally Intelligent Is Hiring Machine Learning Research Engineers (Remote, SF)

Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?

Trapped in amber: Fossilized dinosaur-era crab bridges evolutionary gap

Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)

Your Phone Is Listening and It's Not Paranoia (2018)

.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI

Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

Coaching Paradox

No time to die: An indepth analysis of James Bonds exposure to infectious agents

Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry

Go the F to Sleep

Microsoft re-adds .NET hot-reload

Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring Head of Eng to Digitize $655B Parking Industry

Introduction to keywords via understanding searcher psychology

The Art of Deception, Lighthouse score edition

Leaving Google (Golang Team)

GPT Code Clippy, the Open Source Version of GitHub Copilot

The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes

IBM PS/2 Keyboard Modification

What's the Deal with Fictional Influencers?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics

Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter

Stayflexi (YC W21) Is Hiring

Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis

The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge

Truth as Transcendental: Ontological Foundations

Fastmail is having problems again

Triumph at Saturn [video]

Intel Betting the Farm

Google channels Big Tobacco with dystopian research censorship

Fake shutters make me angry

Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed but underrated among informed

The Hidden Costs of Living Alone

Not Belonging to the World: Hannah Arendt Holds Firm

Qventus (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer

Convert macros to functions in the Python C API

NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised

[ASAP] Alkyl–Aryl Cation Mixing in Chiral 2D Perovskites

[ASAP] Renal-Clearable Molecular Probe for Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging and Urinalysis of SARS-CoV-2

[ASAP] Targeted Delivery of mRNA with One-Component Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers

Fastmail currently down/under attack

Against the herd: trader Mark Spitznagel on contrarian investing

State Plates Project

New 16-inch MBP with M1 Max to feature High Power Mode for intensive workloads

Run Your Favorite 8-Bit Games on an ESP32 (2020)

Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool

The new MacBook Pros look amazing, but I just want a MacPad

Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care?

How the Kodak Brownie Changed Privacy Rights

Propositional logic exercises with the lean theorem prover

Scientific Notation Bug in MySQL Left AWS WAF Vulnerable to SQL Injection

Intel researchers propose HTTPS Attestable to secure web workloads via SGX

Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters

Altitude and Child Development

BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla for LFP batteries

ContainIQ (YC S21) Is Hiring eBPF and Kernel Engineer (Remote)

New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web

YouTube will be removed from Roku as of December 9th existing users unaffected

'High Power Mode' Coming to 16-Inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max, Apple Confirms

Cold outreach strategy that works (2020)

Merge YJIT: an in-process JIT compiler

You can now test a handful of Android apps on Windows 11

Social media’s ‘queer tax’ is exhausting, unfair, and unavoidable