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What if JavaScript had a synchronous async flavor?

ASCII Play

JioFiber Offering Unique Benefit With 300 Mbps Plan

Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years

Air – Live reload when developing with Go

Twitter Suspends Science Writer After He Posts Results of Pfizer Clinical Test

Six corporations control 90% of America media

Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence

How hard is it to get counting right?

Compose.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer

Comma Three Devkit

The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles

Cy384/ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9

Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

The Bitcoin mine with its own power plant

Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv

Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)

Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases

One-Thousand Year-Old Plants

Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf]

Longest Possible Domain Name

Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds

Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]

Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? [pdf]

Warrior Eros

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018)

Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees return to NYC

Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

SoloSuit (YC W21) is hiring a remote, Senior Engineer

Information Geometry

Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?

Memory Management in Lobster

West Bengal Only State to See Net Positive in Wireless Subscribers

Most People Don't Understand How Bad Climate Change Already Is

The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

strcpy: A niche function you don't need

The Daunting Task of Writing Longhand And why you should do it

A Self-Verifying Theorem Prover (2009) [pdf]

Fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution

Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits

Yarn 3.0.0

Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge

What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose

Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles

“We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

Never Gonna Give You Up (by Rick Astley) reaches one billion views

Special intelligence: The exceptional life of Cora Du Bois (2016)

Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver

UpCodes is hiring our first PM to automate compliance for architects

Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI

Where Is the World’s Best Weather? (2020)

Event Horizon Telescope captures ‘beautiful’ images of second black hole’s jet

Facebook has sold 4M Quest 2 headsets in the US, recall docs reveal

T-Mobile Beats Verizon, AT&T to Offer Best 5G Services

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors

“I just got a copyright claim for TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD”

Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

You Can Be Shy and Still Be a CEO

So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming

ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking

Robinhood will fail again: stock trading is broken

The Playdate store is now open

Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition

Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with Git bisect run

The Twopenny Hangover

'Arthur,' the Longest-Running Kids Animated Series in History, Is Ending

Journey (YC W21) is hiring a front-end centric founding engineer

US home prices surge 17% in May, fastest in 17 years

Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans

What I Know About Cleaning and Seasoning Cast-Iron Skillets

Is Authorize.net Down?

Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

The Thermocline of Truth

M1 Commercial 5G SA Network Live Now

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down

Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln, sees need for boosters

Invasive Ad Targeting Is Bad for Journalism and Other High-Quality Publishers

Rio Tinto blew up 46,000-year-old Aboriginal caves in Western Australia (2020)

Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012)

Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32

Airtel and Vodafone Idea Rs 499 Corporate Postpaid Plans Compared

How Tracing Uncovers Half-Truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure

Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020)

Windows 96

We need to talk about testing

Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring our first analytics engineer

Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2021 Results

Handling 100 Requests per Second with Python and Django

Ericsson to Help Virgin Media O2 With 5G SA Network Deployment

Hack NFL data using Postgres (and maybe win your fantasy draft)

Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign

United States sells Wu-Tang album forfeited by Martin Shkreli

FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia

Fox News Breaking News Alert

TV Advertising Effectiveness: Generalizable Results From 288 Brands

Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

In Defense of Hard Counters in Real Time Strategy Games

A Soil-Science Revolution Upends Plans to Fight Climate Change

Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogrammetry

BSNL Should Be Privatised: CUTS International

Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025

The Insecurity Industry

Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?

Making The World's Most Detailed (Print) Maps

Was Jeanne Calment (longest living well documented person) actually two people?

Debian for Mobile

How to Make Cyanotypes

Tesla Q2 2021 earnings release - Big profit beat

Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more than it sounds

Jupiter (YC S19) |Front End Engineer (SF/Remote)| Build Grocery Content Shopping

How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter

Hastening Linux process cleanup with process_mrelease

Git-blame-someone-else: Blame someone else for your bad code

Why can't software engineers work from home most of the time? (2016)

NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia Power Systems

Apple fixes an in-the-wild exploited 0-day (iOS 14.7.1)

Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent

Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans (2018)

Citizen pays New Yorkers $25 an hour to livestream crime scenes

Amid massive hospital sell-off, corporate giant continues suing patients

A rusty green early ocean? (2017)

Map[string]interface{} in Go: a user's manual

Ttfautohint – a 99% automated font hinting process

BSNL Short-Term Plans Better Than Airtel, Jio, Vi Offerings

Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it's downright lethal

Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.

Pronouncing Non-English Names for English Speakers

Transliterating Old-School Basic

Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code

Ampache: An open source web based audio/video streaming app and file manager

The argument for switching off lights at night

Paperspace (YC W15) is hiring Engineers to build a modern MLOps platform

Why are used cars so expensive right now?

Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim

Pre-crime: Sheriff’s letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’

The Assange Case Is Collapsing – But It Remains a Travesty of Justice

UK Weather: Flooding in London after heavy rain

Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Satiety

Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

16/30 Google results contain SQL injection vulnerabilities

Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam

Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

Tour of the Sacred Library

America's “Friendscape” Crisis

Reliance Jio Much Ahead of Airtel, Vi to Offer 4G+ In India

Gas Engines, and the People Behind Them, Are Cast Aside for Electric Vehicles

China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul

A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System

Apple, Facebook, Google Broke the Mobile Browser Market Undermining User Choice

Half of US states now using facial recognition to vet unemployment claims

GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. This will cause no issues

The Highest Forms of Wealth

Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool

CO₂ Coin: Decentralized Carbon Capture Blockchains (2021)

What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2

Cheapest Energy Storage Could Be New Iron-Air Battery

Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer

Steven Weinberg 1933-2021

Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) is hiring: C/C++ Systems Engineer to work on our fuzzing engine

LeVar Burton: 'Jeopardy ' host gig began 'scary,' ended fun

28 Books recommended by open source technologists

Amazon Echo Dot Does Not Wipe Personal Content After Factory Reset

Ask HN: What Technologies Are Used for Google Doodle Champion Island Games?

Inserting 130M SQLite Rows per Minute from a Scripting Language

NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers

Oregon Trail Generation

CudaText: Alternative open source version of Sublime Text

Reliance Jio Is the Only Company That Offers This Plan

Striking to End Suicide Shifts, Frito-Lay Workers Ask People to Drop the Doritos

How to spot a good fake ID

A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub

Truman Capote and 1950s personality research (2018)

Bezos and Branson not yet astronauts, US says

A 3°C world has no safe place

Modern C++ for C Programmers

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov

Gordian Software (YC W19) is hiring back end engineers

My Steam Game Revenue Stats

Tropical Rainforest Index

The Antikythera Mechanism – World Archaeology

The Grayness of the Origin of Life

Feynman vs. the Abacus

Apple’s Spatial Audio and Lossless Is Finally Available on Android

Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light

Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment

Researchers are pulling movements out of microfilm with digital history

Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA ‘Borgs’ Blur Boundaries

The Dig

Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Zip – How not to design a file format

Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds

Algorithmic Botany, Biological Modelling and Visualization Software

Hacker News in the Style of Teletext

It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

CIA Director Says He Is Escalating Efforts to Solve 'Havana Syndrome' Mystery

The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp

EasyPost (YC S13) is hiring to build the logistics platform for ecommerce

iDOS 2 will be gone soon

Translating Jabberwocky into Japanese

Disinformation: It’s History

The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop

A priest was outed for using Grindr, experts say it’s a warning sign for privacy

California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment

Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices

Show HN: Google Alerts for your favorite people

Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

4.6B-year-old meteorite found

Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself

The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

Copper Penny Sorter

Wi-Fi to Be Free in This Indian State as per the Government