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Why Did Garry Tan Block You on Twitter?

Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

Ask HN: Can iOS apps with access to all photos, bulk upload in the background?

A DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100

Researchers in Italy and Germany unveil neuromorphic approach to robotics

Saying Goodbye to My Parents’ Library

[ASAP] Precise Assembly of Proteins and Carbohydrates for Next-Generation Biomaterials

[ASAP] Directed Evolution of Flavin-Dependent Halogenases for Site- and Atroposelective Halogenation of 3‑Aryl-4(3)‑Quinazolinones via Kinetic or Dynamic Kinetic Resolution

How to Get into Tabletop RPGs

Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion

Mikhail Gorbachev has died

C++ compiler can dynamically inline functions at runtime

Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30

My Road to Lisp (2007)

List of Creepypastas

[ASAP] Preparation of Highly Reactive Lithium Metal Dendrites for the Synthesis of Organolithium Reagents

[ASAP] Bright, Modular, and Switchable Near-Infrared II Emission from Compact Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Diradicaloid Complexes

Bit twiddling with Arm Neon: beating SSE movemasks, counting bits and more

[ASAP] Design of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Heterostructured Semiconductors via High-Throughput Materials Screening for Optoelectronic Applications

Physics breakthrough could lead to new, more efficient quantum computers

Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?

Airline Wizz Air is charging £10 “System Surcharge” when using ad blocker (2020)

After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready to fly

Blood for Oil: The Quest for Fuel in World War Ⅱ (1993)

TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

Reading bits with zero refill latency

Presentation: Four programming languages from forty years ago (2018)

Could long Covid be linked to herpes viruses? Early data offer a hint

Denver Startup Week Is Coming Up in September

Cannot read clipboard from service worker in a MV3 chrome extension (2020)

Tachyum: 128 Cores at 5.7GHZ with two 1024 bit vector units each

Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach

The UNIX Programming Environment

Show HN: A piano chord reference tool

Volkswriter Deluxe – One of the first word processors for the IBM PC

Ask HN: How can I start a business to generate electricity?

Hyoka

DOE to invest up to $165M to advance domestic geothermal energy

[ASAP] Chalcogen Atoms as Electron Donors in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions

O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want

[ASAP] Peptidyl Prolyl Isomerase A Modulates the Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of Proline-Rich IDPs

[ASAP] Efficient, Selective CO2 Photoreduction Enabled by Facet-Resolved Redox-Active Sites on Colloidal CdS Nanosheets

[ASAP] Characterization of Binding Site Interactions and Selectivity Principles in the α3β4 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

[ASAP] Resolving Isomeric Posttranslational Modifications Using a Biological Nanopore as a Sensor of Molecular Shape

[ASAP] Discovery of XL01126: A Potent, Fast, Cooperative, Selective, Orally Bioavailable, and Blood–Brain Barrier Penetrant PROTAC Degrader of Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2

LastPass: Notice of Security Incident

Counterpoint: AI is far more dangerous than quantum computing

Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiers

[ASAP] Catalytic Lewis Base Additive Enables Selective Copper-Catalyzed Borylative α‑C–H Allylation of Alicyclic Amines

V-memo a new directive to improve your Vue 3 app performance

[ASAP] Quantitatively Determining Surface–Adsorbate Properties from Vibrational Spectroscopy with Interpretable Machine Learning

Can Types Replace Validation?

[ASAP] Chemoselective Covalent Modification of K‑Ras(G12R) with a Small Molecule Electrophile

Ask HN: Is Heroku DNS screwy for you?

Does syntax highlighting help programming novices? (2018)

Using Mushrooms for Fiber Dyeing

The Future of Nginx: Getting Back to Our Open Source Roots

Monitoring Tiny Lambdas

[ASAP] Exciton Diffusion and Annihilation in an sp2 Carbon-Conjugated Covalent Organic Framework

[ASAP] Total Synthesis of (+)-Mutilin: A Transannular [2+2] Cycloaddition/Fragmentation Approach

Kings Park Psychiatric Center – one last masterpiece

Using Mypy in Production

[ASAP] Correction to “Trilayer Metal–Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications”

Famicom Expansion Audio Double Play: Bases Loaded, and the Stereo Mod Revisited

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

NAC protects from lung emphysema but induces lung adenocarcinoma in mice

A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

An encrypted ZIP file can have two correct passwords – here's why

Gavin Newsom’s Next Political Test Is an Injection-Site Bill

Gauss's Day of Reckoning

Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats

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

The Merge is approaching, and comes with changes to Ethereum

Let's Try Gnome Boxes

Fan-Out Packaging Gets Competitive

Nvidia Kaolin Wisp: a PyTorch library to work with neural fields

Galaxy S23 will be equipped with 200-megapixel camera

[ASAP] High-Entropy Intermetallics Serve Ultrastable Single-Atom Pt for Propane Dehydrogenation

640by480: Instagram Clone for Vintage Digital Cameras

Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance

How to Make a CubeSat

App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

How to lose access of our your servers on DigitalOcean

Drawing Filled Quadrilaterals and Triangles

[ASAP] Dye-Sensitized Multiple Exciton Generation in Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots

[ASAP] Peroxy Intermediate Drives Carbon Bond Activation in the Dioxygenase AsqJ

Managarm: August 2022 Update

[ASAP] Crystallization-Enabled Henry Reactions: Stereoconvergent Construction of Fully Substituted []‑Asymmetric Centers

Happiness Is Two Scales

[ASAP] Room-Temperature Grafting from Synthesis of Protein–Polydisulfide Conjugates via Aggregation-Induced Polymerization

The World of Egyptian Demons

One Page Dungeon

[ASAP] Generation and Aerobic Oxidative Catalysis of a Cu(II) Superoxo Complex Supported by a Redox-Active Ligand

My ETH Wallet is wrongly sanctioned

[ASAP] Water-Soluble Self-Assembled Cage with Triangular Metal–Metal-Bonded Units Enabling the Sequential Selective Separation of Alkanes and Isomeric Molecules

[ASAP] A Borane Lewis Acid in the Secondary Coordination Sphere of a Ni(II) Imido Imparts Distinct C–H Activation Selectivity

[ASAP] Tröger’s Base Network Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (TB-PIMs) with Tunable Pore Size for Heterogeneous Catalysis

[ASAP] Experimental Observation of the Resonant Doorways to Anion Chemistry: Dynamic Role of Dipole-Bound Feshbach Resonances in Dissociative Electron Attachment

[ASAP] Pseudo-Isolated α‑Helix Platform for the Recognition of Deep and Narrow Targets

The AI Art Apocalypse

[ASAP] Correction to “Tailoring Reaction Selectivity by Modulating a Catalytic Diad on a Foldamer Scaffold”

A catalogue of optimizing transformations [pdf]

[ASAP] An Enantioselective Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling To Form Axially Chiral Biphenols

Timelock Encryption made possible and easy to use

[ASAP] Visualizing “Alternative Isoinformational Engineered” DNA in A- and B‑Forms at High Resolution

A Farmer’s Hunch Led to a Lost Monastery and a Neolithic Surprise

Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)

Quorn Fermentation and Evolution in Fermenters

The Art of Effective Trolling

Automation of Canon camera using their WiFi-based Camera Control API (CCAPI)

Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed national hero

A software engineer's circuitous journey to calculate eigenvalues

Skio (YC S20) is hiring in NYC – subscriptions for Shopify, ReCharge migrations

Programming and Writing

Modern Malaise

Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

Speedcubing kid can skip last layer by learning 3915 algorithms for every case

Twingate Architecture Overview

[ASAP] Structure Matters: Asymmetric CO Oxidation at Rh Steps with Different Atomic Packing

Code Free or Die(): Why Hackers Are So Often Libertarians (2008)

[ASAP] A Chemical Proteomic Map of Heme–Protein Interactions

Scientists Protest Censorship in Cosmology

Building certified concurrent OS kernels

Build your own EV charging solution

[ASAP] Site- and Enantioselective Manganese-Catalyzed Benzylic C–H Azidation of Indolines

[ASAP] Probing the Dynamics of Low-Overpotential CO2‑to-CO Activation on Copper Electrodes with Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy

[ASAP] Mechanistic Investigations of the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Enamides with Neutral Bis(phosphine) Cobalt Precatalysts

[ASAP] Passive Macromolecular Translocation Mechanism through Lipid Membranes

[ASAP] Kinetically Controlled Structural Transitions in Layered Halide-Based Perovskites: An Approach to Modulate Spin Splitting

Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews

Going, going... Goethe?

Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers

Adding Auditing to Pip

Creating the Catalog, Before and After FRBR (2017)

We thank Miss Mary Tsingou (2020)

Show HN: 1024, a 2048 Puzzle Game

The Disappearing Modernists

[ASAP] Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Polarity, Rigidity, and Disorder in Condensed Phases

UK government again plugs strike-busting dream of driverless subway trains

Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died

The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion

The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use

[ASAP] Machine Learning Yield Prediction from NiCOlit, a Small-Size Literature Data Set of Nickel Catalyzed C–O Couplings

Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (2012) [pdf]

[ASAP] Fully Automated Unconstrained Analysis of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data with Machine Learning

Ask HN: Is the adoption of electric cars too fast to be sustained?

Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing

Kikkuli, 1345 BCE: Training the Chariot Horse

Code.golf – Solve problems in the least number of characters

Ask HN: Best free software to read text aloud

Emacs Manual for ITS Users (1981)

Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft

IonQ Aria: Practical Performance (Part One)

Ask HN: More “experimental“ UIs for editing/writing code?

E Pluribus, Network – Arista Networks, That Is

45 SF traffic cops issue just 10 citations combined a day

[ASAP] Selective Potassium Chloride Recognition, Sensing, Extraction, and Transport Using a Chalcogen-Bonding Heteroditopic Receptor

[ASAP] Effects of the Separation Distance between Two Triplet States Produced from Intramolecular Singlet Fission on the Two-Electron-Transfer Process

Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy

[ASAP] Photoinduced Oxygen Transfer Using Nitroarenes for the Anaerobic Cleavage of Alkenes

Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineers in the US

Some notes on DynamoDB 2022 paper

AllegroServe, a web server written in Common Lisp

[ASAP] {ScGd} Heterometallic Rings: Tunable Ring Topology for Spin-Wave Excitations

[ASAP] Highly Stable and Selective Sensing of Hydrogen Sulfide in Living Mouse Brain with NiN4 Single-Atom Catalyst-Based Galvanic Redox Potentiometry

[ASAP] Valence-Inverted States of Nickel(II) Complexes Perform Facile C–H Bond Activation