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Eon: Extensible Object Notation

Truly Headless Draw.io Exports

Don't Waste the Good Days

HD floppies, RLL encoding, disk density auto-detection and other fun

Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures

How Y Combinator Changed the World

Python module for parsing Apple Numbers .numbers files

Show HN: Browser based deep fakes in pure JavaScript

United States IPv6 adoption over 50%

The Clojure Mindshare (2019)

The Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980

[ASAP] Electrochemistry for the Chemoselective Modification of Peptides and Proteins

Tesla recalls nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S cars

The curious history of the clothespeg (2016)

Vector Supercomputers

Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything else

Crimes of Fashion: Clothes in early modern England

[ASAP] Reductive Radical Annulation Strategy toward Bicyclo[3.2.1]octanes: Synthesis of ent-Kaurane and Beyerane Diterpenoids

The Scalar Fallacy (2011)

The Flaw of Averages (2002)

You can't copy code with memcpy; code is more complicated than that

From the File of Bad Ideas: Banning unknown drugs with "Machine Learning"

An Unintended Solution for Includer’s Revenge / Counter (hxp 2021)

Cyberattack on one of Norway’s largest media companies shuts down presses

Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go

The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area

Rounds of the Prado

How should NASA break the news if it discovers alien life in 2022?

Revealed: Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops

Energy Efficiency of Modern Codecs

5-dimensional analogue of Rubik's cube

[ASAP] Enhanced Light Emission through Symmetry Engineering of Halide Perovskites

Front-Electric Sustainer Gliders

[ASAP] Versatile Fe–Sn Bonding Interactions in a Metallostannylene System: Multiple Bonding and C–H Bond Activation

Debugging Unaligned Project Teams

Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor (2008)

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

Ask HN: How do you use HN?

Wordle

The Absurdity of Renting a Car Will No Longer Be Tolerated

Robert Graves in the Great War (2018)

Show HN: PiTheremin

Simple server alerts on a need-to-know basis

Pixor: Real-Time 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds

Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

Better SQL JOINs

Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder

When a web PKI certificate won't cut it

Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects

Could we stop building so many damn staircases?

Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes

All the giant companies used ffmpeg

Thanks to the Chip Shortage, Texas Instruments Is Worth $170 B

London Beer Flood of 1814

KiCad 6.0.0

Legal Drafting and Computer Programming

A rogues’ gallery of monster-sized gas giants

Google's removed all mentions of an Intercept investigation from Search

U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts

How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs

The roots of the National Cancer Act

Cornell McRay T'Racing

[ASAP] Domain Wall Dynamics in a Ferroelastic Spin Crossover Complex with Giant Magnetoelectric Coupling

Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship

NumberCruncher Reloaded

Show HN: Embed your source code in PNG files

Jean Gebser: The Ever Present Origin (1949)

The Death of John Berryman (1996)

How IPFS is broken

Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class (2011) [pdf]

Intuitive Advanced Cryptography [pdf]

Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans

BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a head of marketing

The Prisoner-Run Radio Station That’s Reaching Men on Death Row

Ask HN: Working with large code base for the first time

2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade

The Great SPAC Scam: SPACs a Great Deal for Sponsors, but Not Others

Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week

Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified

Show HN: Aftertext

PostgreSQL's Missing DateDiff Function

My career of treating patients has ended

Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022

Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way)

A simple proposal to humankind. Global Peace Dividend

Celebrating 20 Years of Cube: An in-depth interview with Aardappel

BlackHole Audio Driver

Self arrest on the slippery slope of addiction

Telling the time with computer vision

Beanstalk: A Decentralized Credit Based Stablecoin Protocol

Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's

Self-Organizing Teams

Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist

Alpha Fold promises to revolutionize biochemistry

The Dead Sea of West Texas

Show HN: IR stove thermometer, firmware in Rust

Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking

Thread Safety in C++ and Rust

Why Not Rust? (2020)

[ASAP] Phosphorene Nanoribbon-Augmented Optoelectronics for Enhanced Hole Extraction

What Children Lose When Their Brains Develop Too Fast

Toba Catastrophe Theory

I created Traddit, a Reddit client that cuts through FUD and eliminates FOMO

Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes

Gene discoveries give new hope to people who stutter

Princeton-Radboud Study on Privacy Law Implementation

[ASAP] A General, Multimetallic Cross-Ullmann Biheteroaryl Synthesis from Heteroaryl Halides and Heteroaryl Triflates

What's it like to star in a flop?

EDF shares plunge after faults found at French nuclear power reactor

[ASAP] Cation Dimerization in a 3d1 Honeycomb Lattice System

Azul introduces remote compilation for Java

[ASAP] Synthesis and Structure–Activity Characterization of a Single-Site MoO2 Catalytic Center Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide

[ASAP] Multicolor Photoactivatable Raman Probes for Subcellular Imaging and Tracking by Cyclopropenone Caging

The empathy gap, or why good-seeming ideas fail

[ASAP] A Reactive, Photogenerated High-Spin ( = 2) FeIV(O) Complex via O2 Activation

Dungeons and Dragons Is a Case Study in How Capitalism Kills Art

[ASAP] An Adamantane Capsule and its Efficient Uptake of Spherical Guests up to 3 nm in Water

ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit

Intel says the metaverse requires a 1000x boost in computing power

Chiselstore: an embeddable, distributed SQLite for Rust

The future of artificial intelligence is self-organizing and self-assembling

[ASAP] Mechanistic and Electronic Insights into a Working NiAu Single-Atom Alloy Ethanol Dehydrogenation Catalyst

The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Cyclical Linked List

[ASAP] Infinitene: A Helically Twisted Figure-Eight [12]Circulene Topoisomer

Attacking Natural Language Processing Systems with Adversarial Examples

Google is building a new OS for its next ‘innovative AR device’

New-Age Bullshit Generator

Gaming on Wayland

A Safer San Francisco

When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court

1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit (2012)

[ASAP] Synthesis and Applications of Polysubstituted Bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes

[ASAP] Photocatalyzed Triplet Sensitization of Oximes Using Visible Light Provides a Route to Nonclassical Beckmann Rearrangement Products

[ASAP] Correction to “Significant Improvement of Unipolar n-Type Transistor Performances by Manipulating the Coplanar Backbone Conformation of Electron-Deficient Polymers via Hydrogen Bonding”

The messy future of social media

Using WebScript

Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

Sonic the Hedgehog for Commodore 64/128 + REU

Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

Decontextualizer

[ASAP] BesC Initiates C–C Cleavage through a Substrate-Triggered and Reactive Diferric-Peroxo Intermediate

Peloton’s response to Sex and the City is suspiciously perfect ‘fastvertising’

I Think about Writing

[ASAP] Nickel-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Coupling of Redox-Active Esters with Aliphatic Aldehydes

The Hazards of Industrial Research

[ASAP] Total Synthesis of Dalesconol A by Pd(0)/Norbornene-Catalyzed Three-Fold Domino Reaction and Pd(II)-Catalyzed Trihydroxylation

Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it

Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer

Show HN: FileFlows – file processing Docker application

Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015)

George Orwell Outside the Whale

[ASAP] N-Heterocyclic Carbene Stabilized 1-Bora-1,3-butadienes

UniFi Network Application 6.5.54

[ASAP] Electrochemical Dearomatization of Commodity Polymers

The Millennium Simulation Project

Antwerp: The Glory Years

Learning how to ride a bike

Ask HN: Why were a few rank numbers black on the homepage?

Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism

When bad software requirements happen to good people (2011)

Researchers identify characteristics of memory-sensitive neurons

The Trees That Miss the Mammoths (2011)

Why does Minnesota sometimes get colder than the North Pole?

iPhone 14 Pro leaks say the notch is dead, but I doubt it

Icon Programming Language – A brief introduction (1993)

Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

Kropotkin escapes from prison

Serialized roaring bitmaps in Golang

The HTTP of VR

Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity

[ASAP] A Successive Conversion–Deintercalation Delithiation Mechanism for Practical Composite Lithium Anodes

An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture

Show HN: Deeplinks.js – Simple deep links to selections of text on your website

More information about proposed amateur TV experiments [video]

Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible in research model

Codifying humanity: Why AI sucks at content moderation

The Afterlife of Georges Braque

Web3 Is Not Decentralization

One Year of Writing Fault

The Filing Cabinet: a vertical history of information

Apple Open Source

An update on 0day CVE-2021-43798: Grafana directory traversal

Fibers under the magnifying glass [pdf]

A Spouse Divided: Two new Dostoevsky biographies

Decoding DART

Mundaneum

Neuralink and Tesla have an AI problem that Elon’s money can’t solve

Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB

[ASAP] Spotlights on Recent Publications

Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

C++ in the Linux Kernel

Runc/libcontainer: insecure handling of bind mount sources

SpotifyWrapped: Spotify Turned User Listening Stats to a Free Ad Campaign

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It

How to make all your WhatsApp messages self-destruct by default

Advent of Code 2021 using SQL (PostgreSQL-flavored)

“I lasted three minutes at Amazon.”

SuperTokens (YC S20) Is Hiring for devrel roles (remote)

Elegant PCB Business Card Made with Inkscape, KiCad and Svg2Shenzen

Apple is running out of time to deliver on its 2021 promises

Klog retrospective: One year into my open-source time tracking project

The Google Pixel’s new Snapchat shortcut kinda feels like bloatware