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Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying

A guide to fun mathematics YouTube channels

William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)

It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware – ATC/OSDI 2021 Keynote

The Deployment Fidelity Problem

PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful

Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi

The U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote Bases 60 Years Ago

Why Erlang?

You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones

Retool (YC W17) is hiring engineers

Bharti Airtel Might Be Building Capacity for Vi Users

Adapting the OCaml Ecosystem for Multicore OCaml

System76 Pangolin “Linux-first” laptop with AMD internals now in stock

Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack

LiveCode drops its Open Source Support

Bootstrapping Data Labels

Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie

Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

Mythic Rolls Out M1000-Series Analog AI Accelerators; Raises $70M Along the Way

79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies

Startup Bootstrapping Plan

Implementing a class with void*

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Product Engineers

The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions

eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF

Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain

Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds

How the Airline Industry Got Wise to Seat Belts

Industry Towns – Where You Start a Company Matters

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Indian Telecom Operators Will be Ready for 5G

What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?

Freeing Your Goats

The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones

Facebook Is the AOL of 2021

Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard

Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)

Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)

The open calendar, task and note space is a mess

Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer

Fibonacci Sphere

5G In India: Up to 60% Spectrum May Go Unsold

Almost 600 Louisiana sites with toxic chemicals lie in Hurricane Ida's path

Write a System Call (2016)

Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

Clustering Algorithms with Python

Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game by Harry McCracken

Inspectify (YC S20) Is Hiring a Project Manager – Home Insights in Seattle

Seems like everyone is getting rich

Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse

Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

Open Source Illustrations Kit

Code-First vs. Product-First

Air Independent Propulsion Could Create Silent Killer Submarines

Programming, Math, Science: A list with links to useful resources

Patera – Dynamic Documents

Spherical Panoramas

The Orbit of Planet Nine

Backblaze: “Why does the private key still need to be sent to your datacenter?”

Esperanto Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip

Train Wheels Are Cones

8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)

5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks

A newfound biomolecule, consisting of RNA modified by sugars

Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring Software Engineers

Corporations Are Crappy Archivists

The 20“x24” polaroid instant camera

FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

EasyPost (YC S13) is building the logistics platform for ecommerce

Rivian Files for IPO, Seeking About $80B Valuation

Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00

Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots

Life After White Collar Crime

Inductive Reasoning Aptitude

Vega Strike

Getting started with large format film photography

Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old

Do You Need a Blockchain?

LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

David Foster Wallce – This Is Water

A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)

Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [livestream]

Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

“He who pays the piper calls the tune”: Funders suppress health trial findings

Show HN: Simple tool for creating commandline bar charts

Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial

Mental health impacts of a Big Tech job

The Problem of Effects (2020)

Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better

The Semiconductor Heist of the Century

Proxmox VE 7.0 Released

An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object

When correlation is better than causation

Cold Call

Reliance Jio Most Economical Operator In 28, 84 Days Plan Segment

Human Dx is hiring part-time community/growth team members

Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education

The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak, by Daniel Ingalls, 2021

An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming

The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets

LED Light Spectrum Enhancement with Transparent Pigmented Glazes (2016)

Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships

When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]

Turning satellite imagery into wall art

Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault

40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast

For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades

What Made Battle of Blair Mountain Largest Labor Uprising in American History

Bharti Airtel Records AGR Gain in Q4 FY21 While Jio, Vi See a Fall

Nauka's Troubled Flight–Before It Tumbled the ISS

Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++

The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Growth/Front End Engineer

Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

Apple has surpassed Facebook and Google in violating user trust

A New Look at the Hobo

I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

The Dual-Drive IDE Hell

TRAI Suggests Licensing Framework for Satellite Based Connectivity

More and More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving

Work Hard

Seeking Early Signals of Dementia in Driving and Credit Scores

Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property

Fox News Breaking News Alert

My Tungsten Cube

High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-Bit Floating Point

Simple Tips for Overcoming Procrastination

PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience

Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana

“Does Induced Demand Apply to Bike Lanes?” and Other Questions

Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]

Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering to Digitize $131B Parking

K/V Benchmark: PostgreSQL vs. Redis vs. Memcached

WTF Is Server-Side Conversion Tracking

My dead dad’s journal: How I finally met a man I knew for my entire life

Burning Out and Quitting

Responsibly recycle your used Dell and non-Dell equipment for free

An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior

Jsc: My New Best Friend

Panic Blog » the Story of Playdate

Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others

Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux – Ubuntu

Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions (2018)

Bashly – Create beautiful bash scripts from simple YAML configuration

Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time

Toledo’s Last Swordmakers

COAI Asks DoT to Redefine AGR, Remove Bank Guarantees

Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts

Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet

The Myth of a Superhuman AI

Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France

Abusing the Self-Clean Oven Mode to make the perfect Pizza

QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released

Hire for the Ability to Get Shit Done (2011)

Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire

The Case for a Shorter Workweek

API Tokens: A Tedious Survey

EA has made five of its accessibility patents free for any studio to use

Volley (YC W18) is the fast growing “Netflix of Voice” / Hiring 12 roles in SF

Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home without Apple noticing

SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI

Scylla – Real-Time Big Data Database

Googlespeak – How Google Limits Thought About Antitrust

Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

Lignum Nephriticum

How does one get close to mastering software engineering?

Nelua Programming Language

Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019)

I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up

Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game

How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

Apache Arrow Datafusion 5.0.0 release

Reliance Jio Might Place 5 Million Units of JioPhone Next Order With UTL Neolync

James Watt, Instrument Maker

Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

One man's immunity to ticks (2015)

Forging Ahead: The medieval industry of fake charters

John Carmack on SpaceX Starbase

Science Saturday: How disease, diet, and genomics interact with gut virome

darktable: An open source photography workflow application

Monumental Timekeepers

Tesorio (YC S15) is hiring – join our 100% distributed fintech team

How we paid for the War on Terror

Tech Interview Handbook

Notes on Living in Los Angeles

RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust

High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive, elimination of false-positives

A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

OCaml at Bloomberg

Vodafone Idea Is Getting Aggressive With VoWi-Fi Service

Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport

Apple's Workers Are Apple

How I Experience Web Today

Apple Workers Collecting Stories of Abuse, Injustice in Workplace

Gnome Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal

Why protecting privacy is a losing game today (2018)

PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained

Show HN: GLAuth 2.0 out, only a year late

Dancoland

How can we make air conditioners 33% more efficient? A revolutionary solution

BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking

Countering climate change with cool pavements

A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system

Test cross-architecture without leaving home

Kraftful (YC S19) hiring SDRs to build the software layer for the physical world

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Person from Porlock

On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech

Pam Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

One does not simply calculate the absolute value

I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks

The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

Market Share Priority for Indian Telcos

Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

How to Remember What You Read

Intel Brings Chiplets to Data Center CPUs

Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX

DeepfakeHTTP – Your 100% static dynamic back end

Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing a Dramatic Surge in New Covid Cases

New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

Apple exec: ‘we are the greatest platform for distributing child porn’

Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department

AtoB (YC S20) – Stripe for Transportation – hiring early engineers and operators

Schema on write is better to live by

A Game Art Trick: Don’t Starve, Diablo – Parallax 7

Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started

A Simple Interpreter in Python

Why Do the Children (Pretend) Play? [pdf]

Is Covid-19 making us irrational?

Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

An Introduction to AI Story Generation

DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)

EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

Urban Dictionary on Hacker News

Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021

We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys]

Chatroullete – Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us

FFmpeg for browser and node, powered by WebAssembly

View your browser's TLS fingerprint

Scratching the surface: perf stat and Hyper-Threading

Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas

Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees

Human in Robot Costume Good Metaphor for How Close Tesla Is to A.I

OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring a Head of Product Engineering

DevTools Leverage

macOS 11’s hidden security improvements

Top Two Indian Telecom Operators Revenue Market Share Will Keep Increasing