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Degenerate matter: How reality deals with uncertainty

The First Romantics

Improving color quantization heuristics

Worker Tools: Tools for Writing HTTP Servers in Worker Runtimes

[ASAP] Host–Guest Chemistry in Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Interactions with Polyoxometalates and Mechanism of Encapsulation

Canary Tokens

Power on the moon: What will it take to survive the lunar night?

How Novell Netware lost the battle against Windows NT (2013)

Control Pandas, Polars, or SQL from One DSL

[ASAP] From Divalent to Pentavalent Iron Imido Complexes and an Fe(V) Nitride via N–C Bond Cleavage

Golang is evil on shitty networks

Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user experience, performance

Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks

How to Identify a Scientific Fact

How I found my house through 6 degrees of separation

Renewables 2022 – Analysis and forecast to 2027

Ask HN: Tutorials written with heavy dependencies

Hiding in Plain Sight

What Is the Secret of Chernivtsi?: A Conversation with Ihor Pomerantsev

The New Tech Worldview

[ASAP] Modular Synthesis of Unnatural Peptides via Rh(III)-Catalyzed Diastereoselective Three-Component Carboamidation Reaction

The 68k Wars: The Age of Multimedia (2017)

Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (2021)

How RISC-V Timer Interrupts Work

Ask HN: Elevator Pitch for a Polymath?

Weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites

[ASAP] QM/MM Modeling of Vibrational Polariton Induced Energy Transfer and Chemical Dynamics

6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked

Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics

Choctaw and Irish History

Are You Really Losing Weight?

Acquia Cloud Next, a journey in platform modernization

[ASAP] Structural Framework-Guided Universal Design of High-Entropy Compounds for Efficient Energy Catalysis

A Visual Guide to UseEffect

In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another

Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope

Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (1999)

MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom

Monet’s Garden in Giverny

[ASAP] Catalyst-Free Decarboxylative Amination of Carboxylic Acids in Water Microdroplets

A Marine Biologist Remixed Whalesong

California’s population shrinks for third straight year

Bitmap Logic Simulator – Game

Libstdc++ Gets C++20 Chrono

Deadly sharp points found in Idaho could be first American-made tools

Walk as Spreadsheet (2021)

The Frequent Fliers Who Go to Extremes

Jukebox Sample Explorer

Particle Lenia: Self Organising Particles

[ASAP] Tandem C/N-Difunctionalization of Nitroarenes: Reductive Amination and Annulation by a Ring Expansion/Contraction Sequence

PicoCAD – A tiny modeller for tiny models

Show HN: My bookmarks of HN and who I'm following

Password Requirements: Myths and Madness

Inauguration of mainland Europe's first satellite launch complex

The Archipelago That Baseball Built

Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

The End of Programming

Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars? (2021)

Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code

Global Chipmakers to Spend US$500B

Chronic exposure to synthetic food colorant Red 40 promotes colitis in mice

Show HN: How to use ChatGPT+ARKit to script experiences with natural language

People took some potassium and lost some weight

Being Glue: Tanya Reilly

Devbox 0.2.0: Automatic Nix Installer, Plugins, and Background Services

In Kyrgyzstan it’s common to kidnap your future wife

Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture

Ryugu isotopes suggest it formed close to comets along with some unique minerals

The Force Engine v1.0 Released

Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp

Implementing ‘Strlen’ Using SVE

American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021

Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals” – News

Toyota chief says ‘silent majority’ has doubts about pursuing only EVs

Time rules everything around you. It's also an illusion

Introducing The Flickr Foundation

The Unluckiest Man in Movie History (2000)

[ASAP] Turning Enantiomeric Relationships into Diastereomeric Ones: Self-Resolving α‑Ureidophosphonates and Their Organocatalytic Enantioselective Synthesis

Mathematician withdraws preprint 24 years after initial submission

Scientists may have found the first water worlds

Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

Capture the flag using OSINT techniques (2019)

Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history

California pulls the plug on rooftop solar

Courtly Love Can Be Deadly

Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

Show HN: Mimosa – Collaborative brainstorming with AI suggestions

From Ben Franklin, a Gift That's Worth Two Fights (1990)

The Suppressed Electrodynamics of Ampère-Gauss-Weber (2001)

Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad – The Future of Flexible Companies

Things I want from Devs as SRE/DevOps

Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting

Maryland couple fights home owners assoc. and wins ushering in new state law

Twitter restored ElonJet account

“We’ve updated our policy to prohibit sharing someone else’s live location.”

The Delight of Edward Hopper’s Solitude

Violent Ends: Early modern methods of execution

Tailscale/golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets

Jaxga: Geometric Algebra Library for Jax

The Pirahã are off by one (2020)

I Built a Wildlife Pond – here's what happened

Danske Bank pleads guilty to fraud on U.S. banks in multi-billion dollar scheme

Base components are still useful, just not in your UI library

Geoff Dyer: The essayist on not having a career James Surowiecki

Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me

Taking jigsaw puzzles to infinity and beyond

Pluralsight lays off 400 employees – 20% workforce

Privacy advocates are aghast at UK’s anti-encryption plans

What is negative engineering?

“What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?”

Astronomers Just Confirmed the Most Ancient Galaxies Ever Observed

Tell HN: Amazon shows different (worse) pricing when logged in

‘Diablo IV’ developers work long hours, bracing for impending release

Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

Hackers earn $989,750 for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto

Ask HN: Have you ever used an image consultant?

Zero-Cost Well-Defined Signed Integer Overflow in C++

Copyright denied as pose lacks originality

Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT

Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit

Amtrak asks fed regulators to investigate Union Pacific handling of Sunset Ltd

Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement

The Limits of Going Direct

I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?

A Faster Horse: Infrastructure was the cloud’s first act. What’s its second?

Damnit I slipped and (mostly) built an Amiga 500

A startup’s cooling chip may surge processor power

Taking a Walk Across the Internet

Weighted blanket raises pre-sleep salivary melatonin concentrations in adults

The Nature of Poly-Existentials

Identical twins aren't that identical

Memories: First exposure to computers

Theranos exec Sunny Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison

[ASAP] Sulfenyl Chlorides: An Alternative Monomer Feedstock from Elemental Sulfur for Polymer Synthesis

What's Great about Julia?

Beware of the Perfect Gentleman

Emanote – Haskell-powered structured view of your plain-text notes

McDonalds Event Driven Architecture

European scientists are developing nuclear waste batteries for use in space

A tale of two particles: Not all radioactivity is risky or harmful

OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit

A mediocre Dutch artist cast 'the forger's spell' (2008)

Ask HN: Are Protonmail.com Addresses Snubbed?

VCs using scouts means founders get the short end of the stick

[ASAP] Plate-like Guanine Biocrystals Form via Templated Nucleation of Crystal Leaflets on Preassembled Scaffolds

In an interview, SBF admits involvement in Alameda's largest uses of funds

“corner crossing”, legally gray method of traversing checkerboard of public land

The Trusted Platform Module Key Hierarchy

Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors

Weather CLI Tool

Digital Mobile Radio

Show HN: Mini Christmas Trees with addressable LEDs and RP2040-based controller

Magma: Open-source carrier-grade wireless networking platform for rural areas

Ask HN: Best books read in 2022

Robot Gift Guide 2022

A History of Encabulation

The World Cup of Microsoft Excel

Evidence of an oceanic impact and megatsunami on Mars

Driver Verifier– tracking down a mis-behaving driver

Speech by Chair Powell on inflation and the labor market

Kerouac's Quest

[ASAP] Polymer Molecular Weight Determination via Fluorescence Lifetime

Machines and Chaos

An A to Z of keys and keyboards: (macOS) Startup and login

CoreML Stable Diffusion

European MRI study provides experimental evidence indicating our brains are quantum

Eating Well Is a Portal into Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”

[ASAP] Tröger’s Base Chemistry in Solution and in Zr(IV)-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks