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‘The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot’ Review: Keeper of the Flame

The American Prison System’s War on Reading

Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords

German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9

Silbo Gomero: ‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language

Google’s teaching AI to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ at the same time — here’s why that matters

Qualcomm’s betting on AI to take on Apple and Google’s chips

New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types

Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

Reducing an LTO Linux kernel bug with cvise

A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture

Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

[ASAP] Tunable Symmetry-Breaking-Induced Dual Functions in Stable and Photoswitched Single-Molecule Junctions

[ASAP] Tunable and Practical Homogeneous Organic Reductants for Cross-Electrophile Coupling

Dear CEO’s, you’re getting ripped off by legal AI scams

FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]

AWS Outposts

[ASAP] Controlled Synthesis of Well-Defined Polyaminoboranes on Scale Using a Robust and Efficient Catalyst

[ASAP] Cross-metathesis of Allenes. Mechanistic Analysis and Identification of a Ru-CAAC as the Most Effective Catalyst

[ASAP] Epitaxial Growth of Centimeter-Sized Lead-Free (BA)2CsAgBiBr7/Cs2AgBiBr6 Heterocrystals for Self-Driven X-ray Detection

[ASAP] Large, Tunable, and Reversible pH Changes by Merocyanine Photoacids

[ASAP] London Dispersion Helps Refine Steric A-Values: Dispersion Energy Donor Scales

Open source RISC-V GPGPU

I became the internet’s most notorious bike thief (stealing nothing)

Emacs Docs The modern documentation website Emacs deserves

Will Nix Overtake Docker

4x Smaller, 50x Faster

Workers Quit Jobs in Droves to Become Their Own Bosses

Long View: Is the World Deglobalising?

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

How to Read a Jellyfish's Mind

Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West

Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto

Researchers built an AI that automatically generates movie trailers

Researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring

Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

Show HN: An AWS Savings Plans Calculator

Robotic Kitchen Automation Levels

Does the right to bear arms cover AI guns and killer robots?

Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce

Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma

“It's not peaches and cream either for men”

Audio Distortion and THD Explained

Lego Technic 8880 Super Car

Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with html5 video tags

A father comforts his son on deathbed. The photo that changed the face of AIDS

Types for Tables: A Language Design Benchmark

The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics

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

Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead

Where in the Stack?

A Constitutional Convention is closer than you think

Anthocyanins

Designer Diary: The Seeds of Stardew Valley: The Board Game

How to Save a Ski Town

Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became the Norm Again

Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis

Flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted for “technical specifications”

Cupellation

Endianness, API Design, and Polymorphism in Rust

Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language

Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’

Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!

Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?

The Thinker and the Prover: Complete Threads One-Six (2020)

Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries

Proof of stake is a scam and the people promoting it are scammers

Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution

How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)

Z Library

Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls

Combat on carpet: Afghanistans war rugs

Aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images

Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

Mina: Cryptocurrency Protocol with a Succinct Blockchain

Rare Greek Variables

Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous Prophecy

A Utopia of Useful Things

A prioritised micro-batch scheduler in rust

Five Books That Changed My Career as a Software Engineer

My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours

Pop psychology has killed the villain

More Cash Invested in Stock in 2021 Than Two Decades Combined

Explainer: .DS_Store Files

Making a feedback form with state machines

Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?

The Myth of Multitasking (2008)

Bank Transfers as a Payment Method

Cupellation

Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with shortage of maple syrup

Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis

Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students

The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware (2020)

Go Where No Drone Has Gone Before

LemonScript: A typed programming language inspired by TypeScript and Python

What Happened to All the Diamonds in the Rough?

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineer

Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

Procrastination and the Extended Will [pdf]

Attacking Hardware AES with DFA (2019)

PyTorch: Where we are headed and why it looks a lot like Julia (but not exactly)

California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies

AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

Open-source home cloud OS allows you to run Docker applications without coding

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

New in C# 10: Easier Lambda Expressions

Omicron Variant: Early Analysis

Principles of Software Evangelism

[ASAP] Role of Order in the Mechanism of Charge Transport across Single-Stranded and Double-Stranded DNA Monolayers in Tunnel Junctions

[ASAP] The Molecular Path Approaching the Active Site in Catalytic Metal–Organic Frameworks

The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot

MyHDL: Using Python as a hardware description and verification language

A comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution of strict C programming

Deuterium molecules in superposition act as slits for classic quantum experiment

RasPBX Installation for Beginners

Understanding Kafka with Factorio

Ask HN: What is something important I should start doing in my 20s?

Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing

A Live Look at Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales on Shopify

GetElementById vs. QuerySelector

The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation

Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract falls short

'Art Is the Opposite of Spectacle': The Notebooks of Gabriel Orozco

Enigma Virtual Box – Application Virtualization System for Windows

An Odd Card Trick

Dead Ends of IT

Mystery NetBurst (2016)

From our worst month to our best: 4 lessons my startup learned the hard way

Poet Robert Bly has died

Umarell, men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Last year 90% of Black Friday deals were cheaper six months before sales event

What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important?

The Roborock S7 changed my mind about robot vacuums in tiny apartments

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

The Interactive Fiction Archive

Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free

Cisco iOS Scripting with Tcl

Museum of Plugs and Sockets

The Microwave Radio and Coaxial Cable Networks of the Bell System

Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2

The Chase for Fusion Energy

Gentle, a Personal History

Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures

SafeButler (YC S17) Is Hiring Marketing Manager

FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet

Decompressing a Gzip File by Hand

Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git

How to implement and use .noinit RAM

Greening of the Earth mitigates surface warming

The Joy of Cryptography

Ask HN: I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?

Rant: I'm Sick and Tired of Cryptobros

A Visual Intro to Large Language Models

Using TimescaleDB with PGO, the Open Source Postgres Operator

Getting Started with Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments

New emails released in the McDonald’s ice cream machine lawsuit

Breeding plants with genes from one parent

RustBelt: Logical Foundations for the Future of Safe Systems Programming (2019)

The New Ten-Factor Authentication Processes

How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of ghosting in the age of surveillance

Processing and P5 Got Newbies into Coding

Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Sales Representatives – Full Time Remote

My Favorite Math Problem

GoDaddy Breach Widens to TsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory and More

The curious tale of a Nintendo UK Hotliner during the console war era

California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court

Telegram requires developers to show ads

Use Cases: The purpose of your code

[ASAP] “Open” Nonporous Nonasil Zeolite Structure for Selective Catalysis

[ASAP] Selective Separation of Lithium Chloride by Organogels Containing Strapped Calix[4]pyrroles

Sonic: A fast JSON serializing and deserializing library

[ASAP] Cooperative Hydrogen-Bond-Donor Catalysis with Hydrogen Chloride Enables Highly Enantioselective Prins Cyclization Reactions

[ASAP] Real-Time Monitoring of Surface Effects on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Mechanism for Aprotic Na–O2 Batteries

[ASAP] Evidence for an Enzyme-Catalyzed Rauhut–Currier Reaction during the Biosynthesis of Spinosyn A

[ASAP] Highly Water-Permeable Metal–Organic Framework MOF-303 Membranes for Desalination

[ASAP] Facile and Reproducible Electrochemical Synthesis of the Giant Polyoxomolybdates

HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination

I Live in Arkansas. Why Is My State Telling Me Not to Boycott Israel?

No News Is Good News: A Critique of the One Billion Word Benchmark

Show HN: Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design

Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics

I Test in Prod

Wolf Game

Examples of the Importance of Context-Sensitivity in Data-Centric AI

Golang.org Is Gone

Probiotic that produces lactase enzymes directly in gut

Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-based development tools

SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web

Show HN: Janken – A rock paper scissors game

The case of Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate

Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]

Use Cases: The purpose of your code

The 2 Sigma Problem [pdf]

Study: Girls show more interest in STEM when they’re not fed harmful stereotypes

Rust-CUDA: Extremely fast GPU code fully in Rust

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?

The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses

First stage POWER9 Firefox JIT passes tests

Microservices Architecture on Google Cloud

Intel Software Defined Silicon: additional CPU features after license activation

The Stroad

Combining Classic and Modern: A New Approach to Camera Simulation

Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes?

Boar Bot 2.0

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

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

The Race to Make Better Qubits

Cop/Out

The many gifts of awkward SILENCE

I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (2019)

Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (1999)

Tesla, electric SUVs get poor scores from Consumer Reports

The Snowflakes as Code Antipattern

Neri Oxman's Synthetic Apiary

WeWork and Adam Neumann: Scam or Genius? 5 Lessons Learned

There are infinite worlds to explore

Writing Is Networking for Introverts

Japanese Dome House

Explanations for the Havana Syndrome

Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop

Discover Slitaz, a 50MB Lightweight Desktop Operating System

Mikroelektronik Karl Marx U552C

MacPaint and MacWrite First Public Demo (1984) [video]

WiFi Dabba, Inc. (YC W17) Is Hiring

LLVM relicensing update and call for help

Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups

American Hippopotamus

[ASAP] Light-Induced Formation/Scission of C–N, C–O, and C–S Bonds Enables Switchable Stability/Degradability in Covalent Systems

[ASAP] Manganese(I)-Catalyzed H–P Bond Activation via Metal–Ligand Cooperation

[ASAP] Slow Auger Recombination of Trapped Excitons Enables Efficient Multiple Electron Transfer in CdS–Pt Nanorod Heterostructures

[ASAP] Symmetry-Guided Synthesis of -Bicarbazole and Porphyrin-Based Mixed-Ligand Metal–Organic Frameworks: Light Harvesting and Energy Transfer

Cocoa Text System

Advent of Code 2021

Yara Birkeland, the World’s First Autonomous and Emission-Free Containership

Uncompromising: Ludwig Hohl

Overview of new features in Apache HTTP Server 2.6

Saturday Night’s All Right: The invention of payday

An Introduction to Lagrange Multipliers

What it's like to ride 900 km in a day

The history of Flash games in China

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules

Oil 0.9.4 – User Feedback

Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose

Classes in D with betterC

Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny

Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever (2012)

Amazon Ion – a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format

Luis Soriano Had a Dream, Two Donkeys, and a Lot of Books

Modern mainboard for traditional T60 ThinkPad

Surely You're Joking, Comrade Beria

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineer

The Origins of Raoul Duke

Model-Based Testing

Show HN: WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator

The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: How It Works, How to Fight Back

Friend Groups

Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands

A smart collar for cows could revolutionize farming

Talk with the Hand – On the expressive art of chirology

AI can’t tell if you’re lying – anyone who says otherwise is selling something

Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations

Tesla servers throwing 500 errors. People unable to unlock their cars

[ASAP] Metallocalix[4]arene Polymers for Gravimetric Detection of Nitrosodialkylamines

Google SAPI: Generate sandboxes for C/C++ libraries automatically

Breaking Bad: The Incomplete History of the St. Albans Bible (2019)

A Xiaomi Phone Might’ve Shipped with a Censorship List in Europe. Now What?

FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data

Xeact 0.0.69: A Revolutionary Femtoframework for High Efficiency JavaScript Dev

Elicit

Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?

Duff’s Device in 2021

Fintech and Accessibility: The need and market for interdependent technology

Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for users in South Korea

A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks

Think Different – Think Users

Addressing Common Concerns with a World Without Timezones

HomeBrew Computers Web-Ring

Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero

Save the planet Program in C, avoid Python, Perl

SRE Toolkit: Failure Domains

Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

Futurists have their heads in the clouds

Notes on Web3

Debugging a weird 'file not found' error

Show HN: I made a drag and drop website builder that works on mobile

Vimium C – Extension to navigate website by keyboard shortcuts

The DOI System

Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features

Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family

[ASAP] Building Endogenous Gene Connections through RNA Self-Assembly Controlled CRISPR/Cas9 Function

[ASAP] Polyhedral Micromotors of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Symmetry Breaking and Propulsion

[ASAP] Sequestration of Proteins in Stress Granules Relies on the In-Cell but Not the Folding Stability