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TSMC Completes Construction of 5nm Fab 21 in Arizona

I made a virtual bookshelf for book reviews

Large language models can’t plan, even if they write fancy essays

The Colditz Story (1955)

Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests

Using Nix on macOS

Samsung’s “repair mode” lets technicians look at your phone, not your data

Skills Every Programmer Should Consider Learning

Challenges of building a peer-to-peer replacement for the web

Pagefind: Static Low-Bandwidth Search at Scale

WordTeX – A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool (2018) [video]

A billion-dollar industry helping students at Australian universities cheat

[ASAP] Chemical Conformation of the Essential Glutamate Site of the ‑Ring within Thermophilic FoF1‑ATP Synthase Determined by Solid-State NMR Based on its Isolated ‑Ring Structure

The Kubrick Times

Anemometer: Types, advantages, disadvantages

IR Decoding with BPF

Using Google Analytics? you better start thinking about a plan B

Color.js Released

[ASAP] Ru-Catalyzed Hydroboration of Ynones Leads to a Nontraditional Mode of Reactivity

[ASAP] Intracellular Communication between Synthetic Macromolecules

[ASAP] Hidden Local Symmetry Breaking in a Kagome-Lattice Magnetic Weyl Semimetal

[ASAP] 105 K Wide Room Temperature Spin Transition Memory Due to a Supramolecular Latch Mechanism

[ASAP] A Concise Synthesis of Pleurotin Enabled by a Nontraditional C–H Epimerization

GL_EXT_fragment_shader_barycentric: Wireframe

The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB): It’s Real Now

[ASAP] Portable Models for Entropy Effects on Kinetic Selectivity

Google Delays Phasing Out Ad Cookies on Chrome Until 2024

[ASAP] Structure, Organization, and Heterogeneity of Water-Containing Deep Eutectic Solvents

Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips

Software Transactional Memory (1997)

Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearly 30 years

[ASAP] Oxygen-Stable Electrochemical CO2 Capture and Concentration with Quinones Using Alcohol Additives

We don't know how to fix science

Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site

The Last Public Payphone Kiosk on the Streets of New York

Epic Potery: Drinking with the Ancients

Google's Switch to Android Is on the App Store

Recording of the week: What does the UK sound like?

[ASAP] Enantioselective Reductive ‑Cyclization–Alkylation Reaction of Alkene-Tethered Oxime Esters and Alkyl Iodides by Nickel Catalysis

The Making of Lesotho's Robust Cycling Culture (2021)

Lessons from a Startup Pivot

[ASAP] Iridium-Incorporated Strontium Tungsten Oxynitride Perovskite for Efficient Acidic Hydrogen Evolution

I Raised My Kids on the Command Line and They Love It

Bison Roundup at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2021)

Building a tiny little broken calculator with parser combinators

A self-contained AVR programmer using an Arduino Uno

Honestly: Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?

[ASAP] Discovery of a Transferrin Receptor 1‑Binding Aptamer and Its Application in Cancer Cell Depletion for Adoptive T‑Cell Therapy Manufacturing

Earthgrid aims to rewire the USA using super-cheap tunnel tech

More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

Batman easter egg (click the bat signal)

Will a Nile Canal Project Dry Up Africa’s Largest Wetland?

OneSignal (YC S11) is hiring back end and full stack engineers

Spawned Shelter

The First Interview with the Panama Papers Whistleblower

Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking

Why Trauma Doesn’t Exist According to Adlerian Psychology

Soon, life for 40M people who depend on the Colorado River will change

Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when?

[ASAP] Confined Motion: Motility of Active Microparticles in Cell-Sized Lipid Vesicles

[ASAP] Magnetic Interactions in Substitutional Core-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons

[ASAP] Heteroanionic Control of Exemplary Second-Harmonic Generation and Phase Matchability in 1D LiAsS2–Se

Holm Oak in the Garden of Villa Il Balbianello, Lenno, Lombardy, Italy

Securing name resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP

Emirates statement on operations at London Heathrow

[ASAP] Kinetic Diagnostics and Synthetic Design of Platinum Group Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Using Reactivity Maps and Site Utilization Descriptors

InviZible

[ASAP] Combinatorial Synthesis and Screening of Mixed Halide Perovskite Megalibraries

[ASAP] Probing the Electronic Structure and Bond Dissociation of SO3 and SO3– Using High-Resolution Cryogenic Photoelectron Imaging

A framework for audio software development

[ASAP] Enantio- and Regioselective Ni-Catalyzed -C–H Alkylation of Pyridines with Styrenes via Intermolecular Hydroarylation

CD/DVD Format Descriptions and Other Details

[ASAP] Interconversion of Atomically Dispersed Platinum Cations and Platinum Clusters in Zeolite ZSM‑5 and Formation of Platinum -Dicarbonyls

Show HN: TrackObject – Drag-and-drop computer vision object tracking

[ASAP] Data-Driven Enhancement of ZT in SnSe-Based Thermoelectric Systems

Chasing Ghosts: Unlocking the mysteries of human hibernation

Engineers in Japan to build artificial gravity habitat on the Moon by 2050

Use `Python -m Pip`

Running WordPerfect for Unix on Modern Linux

[ASAP] Enzyme Responsive Rigid-Rod Aromatics Target “Undruggable” Phosphatases to Kill Cancer Cells in a Mimetic Bone Microenvironment

Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses

‘How to Tell a Story’ Review: Aristotle in the Writers’ Room

Snapchat for Web

Fizzy Change: The Sounds of Fermentation (2021)

Trilium Notes: note taking application for large personal knowledge bases

Ask HN: How to deal with children's online habits?

Where is there more livestock than people?

Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Neural Network Loss Landscapes: What do we know? (2021)

Schönhage–Strassen Algorithm

Git log is not a changelog

Herbert W. Franke has died

Tool for euclidean geometry aware of logic

Show HN: PyCircTools – Build digital circuits using Python

Success stories are just propaganda (2017)

What I learned from trying to hang Socrates

The Logic of Envy

Show HN: Eesel – Federated search without API integrations

[ASAP] Controlled Selectivity through Reversible Inhibition of the Catalyst: Stereodivergent Semihydrogenation of Alkynes

Focusing sound precisely can knock over one Lego minifig among many (2021)

[ASAP] DNA Bending Force Facilitates Z‑DNA Formation under Physiological Salt Conditions

Scathing study exposes Google’s harmful approach to AI development

Formally Verifying Industry Cryptography

[ASAP] π‑Clamp-Mediated Homo- and Heterodimerization of Single-Domain Antibodies via Site-Specific Homobifunctional Conjugation

Lessons from Writing a Compiler

[ASAP] Correction to “Modular and Facile Access to Chiral α‑Aryl Phosphates via Dual Nickel- and Photoredox-Catalyzed Reductive Cross-Coupling”

[ASAP] NMR Experiments Provide Insights into Ligand-Binding to the SARS-CoV‑2 Spike Protein Receptor-Binding Domain

When Rustc Explodes

[ASAP] Multi-Redox Responsive Behavior in a Mixed-Valence Semiconducting Framework Based on Bis-[1,2,5]-thiadiazolo-tetracyanoquinodimethane

A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

[ASAP] Super-Assembled Chiral Mesostructured Heteromembranes for Smart and Sensitive Couple-Accelerated Enantioseparation

How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops

Cloud Streets (2006)

SL (Steam Locomotive)

The World War II Frogmen Who Trained in Secret Off the California Coast

[ASAP] Adaptor-Specific Antibody Fragment Inhibitors for the Intracellular Modulation of p97 (VCP) Protein–Protein Interactions

[ASAP] Catalytic Chemo‑, Regio‑, Diastereo‑, and Enantioselective Bromochlorination of Unsaturated Systems Enabled by Lewis Base-Controlled Chloride Release

Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison

Getting the Most from Your Logs

Florida police department diverting calls to mental health staff

Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (2017)

[ASAP] Sorting Nanoparticles by Valency with DNA Barcoding

Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts

Love Song to Costco

Logging Performance Comparison

Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyper-Fast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory

The secret stretch of coastal France that's nicer than Nice

Cissbury Ring: Neolithic flint-mines in the digital age

Agiler: An adaptive heterogeneous tile-based many-core arch for RISC-V

Fun with lifetime-extended results of assignment

Apple, Google’s Mobile Browser Dominance to Be Investigated

Show HN: Maze Generation Visualization

3 ways next-gen academics can avoid an unnecessary AI winter

Picbreeder

Elon Musk terminating Twitter deal

On the Disassembly Line

[ASAP] Catalytic Asymmetric Axially Chiral Allenyl C–P Bond Formation

[ASAP] One-Step Synthesis of β‑Alkylidene-γ-lactones via Ligand-Enabled β,γ-Dehydrogenation of Aliphatic Acids

[ASAP] Evidence for the Chemical Mechanism of RibB (3,4-Dihydroxy-2-butanone 4‑phosphate Synthase) of Riboflavin Biosynthesis

Automatic Astro Compass Type MD-1

Why ‘facial expression recognition’ AI is a total scam

EU moving closer to Facebook ban

[ASAP] Cubic Stuffed-Diamond Semiconductors LiCu3TiQ4 (Q = S, Se, and Te)

TensorFlow Lite for Commodore 64

[ASAP] Mechanochemical Enhancement of the Structural Stability of Pseudorotaxane Intermediates in the Synthesis of Rotaxanes

Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size

[ASAP] Ga+‑Chabazite Zeolite: A Highly Selective Catalyst for Nonoxidative Propane Dehydrogenation

Show HN: We created a password and data manager for teams

[ASAP] Dicarbofunctionalization of [1.1.1]Propellane Enabled by Nickel/Photoredox Dual Catalysis: One-Step Multicomponent Strategy for the Synthesis of BCP-Aryl Derivatives

No Language Left Behind

New EU rules on car speed limiters coming into force

Psychology and the Instrument Panel (1953)

[ASAP] Engineering Water Molecules Activation Center on Multisite Electrocatalysts for Enhanced CO2 Methanation