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Joan Didion’s Life in Objects

AI isn’t choosing our artistic future, we are

We Don't Understand Computers (2017)

Python-FIDO2

SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica

WriteFreely: Open source federated microblogging platform

Novelty Automation

Star Trek (1964) [pdf]

AT Protocol Overview

Diode: Build, program, and simulate hardware projects in the browser

Minor Monarchs

Speeding up the Rust compiler without changing its code

Charles Dickens as Animal Novelist

Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

Visual Morphology of Vowels

Gaudí's Hanging Chain Models

Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Crushing Entrepreneurs

Stable Diffusion Prompt Book

Treasury Sold $3.4B in I Bonds This Week as Investors Rushed to Get 9.62% Rate

smolnes: A NES emulator in less than 5000 significant bytes of C++

Every day, I commit a new and more complicated version of some simple code

Layers of change: How buildings and software are alike

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

The Changing Fortunes of Japanese Camera Manufacturers

[ASAP] Perdeuteration of Arenes via Hydrogen Isotope Exchange Catalyzed by the Superbasic Sodium Amide Donor Species NaTMP·PMDETA

[ASAP] Spectroscopic and Kinetic Studies of the ClSO Radical from Cl2SO Photolysis

Bit Twiddling Hacks (2005)

Galactic settlement of low-mass stars as a resolution to the Fermi paradox

Elites tried to monopolize hunting

Emulator Performance: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript (2021)

Best practices in digitizing language data (2006)

Vim After 15 Years

Germany Is Dismantling a Wind Farm to Make Way for a Coal Mine

[ASAP] Single-Vesicle Infrared Nanoscopy for Noninvasive Tumor Malignancy Diagnosis

Show HN: Encrypt and hide files inside images

NEC PC 8201A

Employers should prioritize retention over hiring, study suggests

Stable Diffusion to 3D/WebVR, in the cloud, available now

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe

The Original Lego Patent (2015)

[ASAP] Polymethine Molecular Platform for Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes in the Second near-Infrared Window

Ask HN: What do you use for encrypting your personal stuff?

How to Make a Roguelike

My thoughts on the Framework laptop (from a professional kernel developer)

The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’

Ask HN: Is long-term employee commitment to the same company still appreciated?

[ASAP] Total Synthesis of (−)-Principinol C

[ASAP] Catalysis-Enabled 13-Step Total Synthesis of (−)-Peyssonnoside A

[ASAP] Elucidating the Roles of Local and Nonlocal Rate Enhancement Mechanisms in Plasmonic Catalysis

[ASAP] Au as a Surrogate for F: The Case of UAu6 vs UF6

Learning Electrodynamics does not have to be hard and boring

Natural gas is a fuel of the future

Ask HN: Is the World Going to Shit?

Coming Home to Vim (2010)

[ASAP] Nature of Cations Critically Affects Water at the Negatively Charged Silica Interface

When Is Short Tenure a Red Flag?

Tell HN: I was tired of being a perfectionist so I built an app within 24 hours

GlueSQL: A SQL database engine written as a library in Rust

BIM for Heritage: Developing a historic building information model (2017) [pdf]

Wong May updates the Tang Dynasty poets for the 21st century

How to Index Anything

Tuna

How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations

More Than 60k Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are Now Vacant

Social Engineering Dos and Don'ts

Fractional (YC W21) Is Hiring an iOS Lead

Susan Kare Designed User-Friendly Icons for the First Macintosh

Play against the computer – Connect Four game in JavaScript

Elizabeth Holmes 'gave me gobbledygook answers' back in 2014

Increasing evidence that bears are not carnivores

A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) soil moisture sensor

Soviet Argon-11S Computers for Space

Traff: A universal format for live traffic information

[ASAP] Asymmetric Photochemical [2 + 2]-Cycloaddition of Acyclic Vinylpyridines through Ternary Complex Formation and an Uncontrolled Sensitization Mechanism

Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer

[ASAP] Nanocluster Transformation Induced by SbF6– Anions toward Boosting Photochemical Activities

[ASAP] Length-Controlled Nanofiber Micelleplexes as Efficient Nucleic Acid Delivery Vehicles

[ASAP] A Multi-Objective Active Learning Platform and Web App for Reaction Optimization

[ASAP] Reassigning the Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions of Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite

[ASAP] Isoreticular Design of KTiOPO4‑Like Deep-Ultraviolet Transparent Materials Exhibiting Strong Second-Harmonic Generation

Does SharePoint destroy intranet design? (2010)

Wait vs. Interrupt Culture

Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business

Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s

Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards

John le Carré's private life, revealed in letters and a kiss-and-tell

[ASAP] Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed C(sp3)–C(sp3) Coupling between Aziridines and Acetals as Alcohol-Derived Alkyl Radical Precursors

The Case for Energy Optimism

Tails 5.5

How to Become a Pirate Archivist

How to hide your IP address: a field guide to VPNs, proxies, & traffic relaying

Web workers are not the answer

[ASAP] Evidence for Water Antibonding Orbital Mixing in the Hydrated Electron from Its Oxygen 1s X‑ray Absorption Spectrum

On the supposed “nihilism” of the Mango Markets arbitrageur

A simple web hook that forwards prometheus alerts over XMPP

Chaos theory eliminates quantum uncertainty

The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file formats

DarkForestSim: A Netlogo Simulation of the Dark Forest Hypothesis

Annie Ernaux’s Justly Deserved Nobel

Fungi Foragers Freaked

E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

Cork is making a comeback

Show HN: Stable Diffusion Without Filters

Random walk in 2 lines of J

Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

Telegraphs and Typewriters (2015)

Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial

Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built

Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong

Show HN: Find any smart contract on Cookbook

[ASAP] A Motor-Based Carbonaceous Nanocalabash Catalyst for Deep-Layered Bioorthogonal Chemistry

Deep language algorithms predict semantic comprehension from brain activity

Digging into a QEMU problem of slow data copying

A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem

Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere

Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence

A Capitol Orchard: Botanical Networks and the Creation of a Japanese Neo-Europe

AltaRock Energy Melts Rock with Millimeter Waves for Geothermal Wells (2020)

[ASAP] Adaptable Eutectic Salt for the Direct Recycling of Highly Degraded Layer Cathodes

Age and Authenticated Encryption

DoS attack against Diffie-Hellman protocol

Hegel – An advanced static type checker for JavaScript

[ASAP] Depside Bond Formation by the Starter-Unit Acyltransferase Domain of a Fungal Polyketide Synthase

[ASAP] Lattice Strain and Schottky Junction Dual Regulation Boosts Ultrafine Ruthenium Nanoparticles Anchored on a N‑Modified Carbon Catalyst for H2 Production

Projectional Editing (2008)

We built voice modulator to mask gender in tech interviews. Here’s what happened

[ASAP] Methane Activation by a Mononuclear Copper Active Site in the Zeolite Mordenite: Effect of Metal Nuclearity on Reactivity

Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in Houston Suburbs

Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar (2020)

JEP draft: 64 bit object headers

Emulation on the M1 iPad Air [video]

Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’

New Patterns for Apps

[ASAP] Real-Time Detection of Hydroxyl Radical Generated at Operating Electrodes via Redox-Active Adduct Formation Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Knock: Convert ACSM files to PDF/EPUBs with one command on Linux

PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools

Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets

Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers

Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino

Linvo-Scraper: LinkedIn Automation Bot

MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

Ask HN: Are EGPUs for M1/M2 MacBook's Possible?

Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB

Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln

Are hospitals overtreating patients nearing the end?

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Pro

How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet

Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

4x4 ASCII Font

Media lying about climate and hurricanes

Working Arrangement

The Fakoo Alphabet

[ASAP] Charge Delocalization and Vibronic Couplings in Quadrupolar Squaraine Dyes

After cutting radar, Tesla now dropping ultrasonic sensors from its EVs

BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely

Upgrade to Linux

What color is your markup?

AMD Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

Paris Métro paper ticket reaches end of the line after more than 120 years

The non-linear workdays changing the shape of productivity

We’re adding barcodes to our regular stamps

Open Source Firmware Conference 2022 [videos]

IEEE-754 Analysis

Jq Internals: Backtracking

JSX Mail: Ending All Your Problems When Creating Email Templates

How to Choose a Radon Fan (2018)

Micron picks Syracuse for computer chip plant that would bring up to 9k jobs

Templating in HTML

The Lilium Jet

Tesla removes Ultrasonic sensors in favour of Tesla Vision

Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature

Epic-Kitchens Dataset

[ASAP] Medium-Chain Lipid Conjugation Facilitates Cell-Permeability and Bioactivity

Signals in Prod: Dangers and Pitfalls

Xonsh: I don't remember how to write a for loop in Bash

'A fluke': The oldest webcam is still watching over San Francisco

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

Publishers Lose Their Shit After Authors Push Back on Their Attack on Libraries

Identity and Access Management Workforce Planning

New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'

The Libertine’s Voice: The Life and Love Poems of John Donne

Build your fanbase using the K-pop method

BBSing at 300 Bits per Second

Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs

Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?

Gambler’s Ruin Problem [pdf]

230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establish Extraterritoriality

Padlet Is Hiring in SF to Build Software for a Good Education

TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use the App

Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (Ca. 1902)