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The popularity of country music in rural sub Saharan Africa

Navigate ASTs with x-path-like queries

Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

FCC Closes Robocall Loophole

Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge

Brain-Machine Interfaces: Basic Science to Neuroprostheses and Neurorehab (2017)

Reverie Labs (YC W18) is hiring software engineers to develop cancer therapies

Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

The Myth of Making It (2019)

Development Environments

Archaeological analysis suggests warfare helped societies become more complex

Mechanical Engineering in Ancient Egypt, Part XII: Stone Cutting (2016) [pdf]

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn

Optical microphone can separate multiple instruments from afar

Canarytokens

The Pervasive Problem–and Far-Reaching Impact–Of Tree Poaching

The Rise and Fall of 6502 Gaming (2020)

Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning

How are images compressed? An explanation of JPEG [video]

Wear leveling in SSDs considered harmful

ROS – Robot Operating System

The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio (2013)

Drill Small, Precise Holes (2009)

Highlights from Git 2.37

The giant hangar poised for an aviation revolution

Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields

What's New in Python 3.11?

PyPI: Python packets steal AWS keys from users

BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) Is hiring a Growth Associate

‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace

Spiritual Bypassing (2011) [pdf]

Bayesian Workflow (2020)

Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon

Bob Stanley’s pre-history of pop breathes life into a lost musical era

AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

Interactive Unix – So Powerful It Can't Be a PC

How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices

Singapore Got Its Manufacturing Mojo Back

Benefits of Class-G and Class-H Boost in Audio Amplifiers [pdf]

Goldman Raising $2B to Buy Distressed Celsius Assets

Computer Simulations of Proteins Help Unravel Why Chemotherapy Resistance Occurs

At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now

Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?

Show HN: Domfetch.com - free tool to find expired domains with history

OpenWRT based travel router on APU2D4 (2019)

Show HN: Nerd Crawler – we monitor original comic art sites so you don't have to

Six things I do every time I start a Django project

Ferrari installed a 1MW fuel cell unit to expedite carbon neutrality

Advice for Academic Refugees

Timeline of “foundational” advances in homotopy theory?

Virtual Correspondence

Educational and Personal Robots from the 1940s to 1990s

Writing a Multilingual Book in Markdown

Dropbox Shop Beta

Mail Merge returns to Pages after nine years

Electrocuted birds are sparking wildfires

Jennifer Egan's Fiction and Visions of the Future

FixPhrase – open-source, patent-free what3words alternative

The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own Story

Edward Snowden on the crypto crash: ‘When the ground has cleared, things will grow again’

Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry

Pentaform launches AbacusBasic, the ‘world’s most affordable PC’

Mullvad is now continuously donating to Qubes OS

WebAssembly on Amazon Lambda: Lessons Learned

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer – Wendell Berry (1987) [pdf]

IBM’s human-centered approach is the only big tech blueprint AI startups should follow

Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build

Mighty: The Browser You Didn’t Know You Needed but Definitely Do

Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power

Shores of the Polar Sea (1878)

Why houses in Bermuda have white stepped roofs

Ask HN: Do you upvote direct replies?

Show HN: Open source GamePort adapter to connect old DB15 joysticks to USB port

Sufficiently Advanced Testing (2019)

Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

The Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1960) [video]

Show HN: I have created something new to make your browsing experience enjoyable

A New Satellite Tool Shows You How the Planet’s Landscape Changes Day by Day

[ASAP] Reversible Al Metal Anodes Enabled by Amorphization for Aqueous Aluminum Batteries

V Language Review (2022)

Software Engineering: The Soft Parts

Moth wing–inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough

Skio (subscriptions for Shopify, easy ReCharge migrations) is hiring in NYC

That Ol’ Thumb

Neuromorphic chip dramatically reduces power requirements for rolling robot

Show HN: Let's build an end-to-end encrypted data store

How to make sense of ancient Greek colours (2020)

Erik Brynjolfsson on automation, productivity, work, and the future

Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic

Chewed and Rolled: How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High

The Phone Booth of the Mind

[ASAP] Particle Swarm Predictions of a SrB8 Monolayer with 12-Fold Metal Coordination

CockroachDB's Consistency Model

[ASAP] Understanding Metal–Organic Framework Nucleation from a Solution with Evolving Graphs

Astronomers may have detected a ‘dark’ free-floating black hole

How Palo Alto Networks Replaced Kafka with ScyllaDB for Stream Processing

Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Software Engineers to Cure Cancer

Building a web application with Rust and WebAssembly

Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard

Writing Is Hard

What should you do with your stock options during a recession?

You vs. A Billionaire: compare your income

Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans

The 3 things an AI must demonstrate to be considered sentient

Kodable (YC IK12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to help us teach kids to code

Is linguistic inflation insanely awesome? (2012)

The Maraschino Mogul (2018)

Invasive Jumping Worms (2020) [video]

What does the Turing test really mean? (2009) [pdf]

Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite

Sophisticated Sudokus as Playful Proof Practice

Short-sightedness was rare. In Asia, it is becoming ubiquitous

Overthinking

Choosing Insecurity (2017)

Foone reverse engineering Skifree (Twitter thread)

Google Will Eat Itself

GPT-3 may be a squirrel

BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) Is hiring a Principal Engineer

Remotely mind-controlled metasurface via brainwaves

Web Push for Safari

The lost elegance of computation with Conal Elliott [audio]

WT.Social

A query database collection for use with laravel pipeline

Charles Petzold: Adventures in Electronic Music: Beeps, Bloops and Klangs (2011)

Examples of Barbell Strategies

‘Fantastic giant tortoise,’ believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos

Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

“Hamlet” by T. S. Eliot (1919)

Non-Stationary A/B Tests

How to Do What You Love (2006)

Group of white and Asian parents sue BPS over exam school admissions policy

TBD Web5

Suboptimal naming conventions

Google sets new record for calculating pi — but what’s the point?

Always Own Your Platform (2019)

Raising exceptions or returning error objects in Python

Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes

Bridging the Synchronization Gap on Linux

Quiescence Search

Tesla investigation deepens after more than a dozen US ‘Autopilot’ crashes

LTSpice Tutorial

Colombia shares unprecedented images of treasure-laden wreck

Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems

How Street Dogs Spend Their Days

Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

El Ajedrecista

How does a logic gate in a microchip work?

[ASAP] Nitrogen-Embedded Quintuple [7]Helicene: A Helicene–Azacorannulene Hybrid with Strong Near-Infrared Fluorescence

Embodiment Is Indispensable for AGI

[ASAP] N‑Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Gold Nanoclusters with Organometallic Motifs for Promoting Catalysis

[ASAP] Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons as Multitalents of Present and Future Materials Science

[ASAP] Microenvironment-Sensitive Fluorescent Nucleotide Probes from Benzofuran, Benzothiophene, and Selenophene as Substrates for DNA Polymerases

Enabling Developer Mode on a Device

[ASAP] Affinity-Based Profiling of the Flavin Mononucleotide Riboswitch

Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console

[ASAP] Inositol Hexakisphosphate (IP6) Accelerates Immature HIV‑1 Gag Protein Assembly toward Kinetically Trapped Morphologies

In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021)

Seeing the Clouds with the Cloud

Fine dining faces its dark truths in Copenhagen

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?

Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines

StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser

King Phallus (1965)

The Origin of Unix Pipes (1964)

On Stretch Rap (and containers and shipping)

Ask HN: Anyone else quickly losing confidence in Amazon?

Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

Skio (subscriptions for Shopify, easy ReCharge migrations) is hiring in NYC

OVHcloud fire class action reaches 140 clients, seeks more than €10m

Formal Methods Only Solve Half My Problems

GPT-4chan

[ASAP] Functionalization of Diamine-Appended MOF-Based Adsorbents by Ring Opening of Epoxide: Long-Term Stability and CO2 Recyclability under Humid Conditions

InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Dev Contests to Crisis

You have to follow your instincts in this business

Quitting Twitter? What People Say About Life After Social Media

Ask HN: What does your Mom tell people about your work or employment?

Update on Hiring Plans

Aptible (YC S14) is hiring for our secure, compliant PaaS alternative to Heroku

Fixing Social Media with Data Trusts

[ASAP] Synthesis of Pleuromutilin

Async destructors, async genericity and completion futures

[ASAP] ZnCl2 Mediated Synthesis of InAs Nanocrystals with Aminoarsine

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird

[ASAP] An Air-Rechargeable Zn/Organic Battery with Proton Storage

JXA’s Parenthesis Paradox