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Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up

A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems

Astronomers close in on new way to detect gravitational waves

Why China’s Communist approach to AI is a blueprint for second place

Online archives where scientists post research spark information revolution

FunctionStomping – A new shellcode injection technique

State of the Web: Static Site Generators

Seattle Telecommunications History Museum

Why I won’t use Let’s Encrypt

Ulysses at 100: The Birth of the Modern

Should I build a Tesla coil for a science fair?

Mix and Match Mental Models

Sendxmpp as a Replacement for Mail(1)

Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches

Play Chess, Earn Money • Powchess.com

Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues

Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions

r/antiwork’s train wreck Fox News interview shows moderators aren’t leaders

A man who gave himself away (2016)

The 4 biggest science breakthroughs that Gen Z could live to see

David Chalmers considers the possibilities of VR

Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix

Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Xcode Through the Years

A Democratic Scandal Is Unfolding in Denmark

Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers

GPT-3 implicitly favor text written by authors from powerful social positions

A brief history of El Salvador’s crypto feud with the IMF

Six Architects on their Dream Desks

Phishing in organizations: Findings from a large-scale and long-term study [pdf]

Asimov, Programming and the Meta Ladder

Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’

The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back

A trick to have arbitrary infix operators in Python

Silicon fluorescence from microcracks in cement, revealing signs of damage

Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs

How Slow Is Select *?

Ketogenic Diets and Chronic Disease: Benefits vs. Risks

Don't let computers generate your advertising or things like this will happen

FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle

Sibyl – Prediction Service at DoorDash

[ASAP] Chiral Generation of Hot Carriers for Polarization-Sensitive Plasmonic Photocatalysis

[ASAP] Pickering Interfacial Catalysis for Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation in Oil Foams

[ASAP] Boosting the Optoelectronic Performance by Regulating Exciton Behaviors in a Porous Semiconductive MetalOrganic Framework

[ASAP] Mechanistically Guided Workflow for Relating Complex Reactive Site Topologies to Catalyst Performance in CH Functionalization Reactions

[ASAP] An Ionic Cluster Strategy for Performance Improvements and Product Morphology Control in Metal-Catalyzed OlefinPolar Monomer Copolymerization

Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

Measuring HF noise around a city

Going Online Like it’s 1979: The Atari 800

Who Founded Venice? (2021)

How the Gut Differentiates Artificial Sweeteners from Sugars

[ASAP] Short-Range Backbone Dihedral Rotations Modulate Internal Friction in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready

Show HN: Perspec – Scriptable desktop app to correct the perspective of images

Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral

Myths About Cooking Steak That Need to Go Away (2013)

Pydantic

Goodbye Outstandem

A night with the freegans

Soviet Military Maps of North America and UK

Any single galaxy reveals the composition of an entire universe

Two Phase Commit

Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown

Internet connectivity knocked out in Yemen after airstrike

[ASAP] Merging Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT) and Copper Catalysis for the Modular SuzukiMiyaura-Type Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Iodides and Organoborons

Consistency Sin

[ASAP] Both Charge-Regulation and Charge-Patch Distribution Can Drive Adsorption on the Wrong Side of the Isoelectric Point

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics

[ASAP] Combining Valence-to-Core Xray Emission and Cu Kedge Xray Absorption Spectroscopies to Experimentally Assess Oxidation State in Organometallic Cu(I)/(II)/(III) Complexes

Let the Wild Rumpus Begin

AI could end foreign-language subtitles

What it means to teach gifted learners well

The problem of de-synchronized metronomes

Xerox PARC Mesa Programming Language 5.0 (1979) [pdf]

A Civil War – Inside Switzerland’s Astonishingly Polite Armed Conflict of 1847

Did Elon Musk forget about OpenAI or is he just trolling his dumbest fans?

Turning a GitHub Page into a Progressive Web App

NASA: Tonga blast was 10 megatons, more powerful than a nuclear bomb

Action: the first dynamic interface builder (1988) [video]

Show HN: SlateJS(rich text editor) Svelte view layer

Samsung’s Exynos 2200 brings raytracing to phones — here’s why that matters

Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins

Facebook, Merck and CDC Foundation, whose sponsor includes Pfizer, form alliance [pdf]

Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists

North Pole Solar Eclipse Excited Auroras on the Other Side of the World

Why giving AI ‘human ethics’ is probably a terrible idea

Those computers in your head

Can NFTs be art? Wikipedia isn’t sure — and crypto bros are terrified

Cain's Jawbone

Detic - Detecting Twenty-thousand Classes using Image-level Supervision

Show HN: WallSmash – An Infinite Brick Breaker Game

Schedules of Reinforcement (2021)

Show HN: Hatchet – Extracts unique unsubscribe links from mailing lists in Gmail

Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

Making Your Game Go Fast by Asking Windows Nicely

Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution

History of Pepper

Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

HTML Is/as a Programming Language

The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

Curse of the Colonel

[ASAP] Superradiance and Directional Exciton Migration in MetalOrganic Frameworks

New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is a form of learning

[ASAP] Thermoelectric Performance of the 2D Bi2Si2Te6 Semiconductor

Netflix raises prices for the 6th time since 2014

What’s New in SQLite-Utils

[ASAP] Phase Transition to Heptagonal-Cluster-Packed Structure of Gold Nanoribbons

Interlock/Apozy (YC W17) Is Hiring

Slackware Linux 15.0 RC3

Nominative determinism in hospital medicine, by Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb

In Praise of Search Tools

Alternative DNS Roots

My process for building a feature

[ASAP] Understanding Ir(III) Photocatalyst StructureActivity Relationships: A Highly Parallelized Study of Light-Driven Metal Reduction Processes

Best Wordle Guessing Strategy

[ASAP] A Photoreactive Iron(II) Complex Luminophore

Dear websites, please stop asking me to download your mobile app

The specs behind the specs – a deep-dive on ASN.1

[ASAP] Superatom Regiochemistry Dictates the Assembly and Surface Reactivity of a Two-Dimensional Material

Nigeria lifts Twitter ban from midnight, government official says

Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books

Astronomers discover a strange galaxy without dark matter

[ASAP] Taming the Chlorine Radical: Enforcing Steric Control over Chlorine-Radical-Mediated CH Activation

[ASAP] A Comprehensive Discovery Platform for Organophosphorus Ligands for Catalysis