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How Masten Space Systems Is Using Ada and Spark to Land on the Moon's South Pole [pdf]

Sparta Was Much More Than an Army of Super Warriors

Coping with the Clutter of Houseplants

Enabling IPv6 Support for GitHub Pages

Mongolia’s Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts

During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means to Challenge Texts

AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services

The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021

DMV Approves Cruise and Waymo to Operate Commercial Service in Parts of Bay Area

Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason

Cruise gets permit to give driverless rides to passengers in San Francisco

SpiceDB Is Open Source

Silicon Lottery Closing Down

A meteor demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city possibly inspiring Sodom myth

Injecting environment variables into static websites using Nginx

Vodafone Idea Confident About 5G in India

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Slack is experiencing a service disruption

US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k

U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches

The Vanishing Climate Archives

Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)

When users never use the features they asked for

πfs – A data-free filesystem

Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA

“Systems vs. Goals” is silly

Pitch: Control Flow Negation Statements (2019)

Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

GPUs open the potential to forecast urban weather for drones and air taxis

Can You See Me Now? A measurement study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet

Gregory MS

Stripe launched 10 years ago today

How to fit any dataset with a single parameter

The High Cost of Surviving Rabies

Facebook's Mariana Trench Java static code analyzer

Flowistry helps you understand Rust programs with program analysis

5G Spectrum Bands That Indian Telecom Operators Will Want

Show HN: See HN, Twitter discussions and posts mentioning the page you are on

Questions as pot comes to work

Art or Heist? A Danish Artist Took $84,000 and Sent a Museum 2 Blank Canvases

Old Video Game Advertisements

Amplitude (YC W12) is going public

OnePlus Buds Z2 Might Feature ANC Support

Dude, Where’s My Stuff?

Substack (YC W18) is hiring engineering managers to build the future of writing

Podman in Linux

The last days of Tartessos

America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack

Exercise is neuroprotective, in part via Irisin (hormone released from FNDC5)

Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order

My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit

FCC just rolled out its updated broadband and LTE maps

Hypersonic HAWC Missile Flies, but Details Are Kept Hidden

5G Premium Spectrum Bands Unavailability Concern for SIA

OBS Studio 27.1.1

Oculus will allow sideloading and rooting to avoid e-waste

Refined Hacker News

The code worked differently when the moon was full

Consumers and Curators: Browsing and Voting Patterns on Reddit

The iPhone of Robotics: The killer product of robotics is hidden in plain sight

Technical deep dive into how OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE

Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data

Angellist: Stack

Show HN: Extract Table from Image

Procedurally generating a rounded box mesh

Facebook invests $50 mln to build the 'metaverse' in responsible manner

Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

Image Sharing. No Bullshit

Cloud Run Quietly Swaps Home Env Var in Docker

Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Sales Associates – Full Time Remote

ETH: $23M transaction fee sent to a miner

The Afterlives of E.M. Forster

U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks

Landslide Victory for the Communists in Graz

DoS Attacks against my Online Game

Imgur Acquired by Medialab

Unum: Interconvert numbers, Unicode, and HTML/XHTML entities

BSNL Cannot Jump to 5G Straightaway

Something weird is happening on Facebook

Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]

Retail jobs are treated as a temporary bridge to something better. But why?

Renters Now Rule the Suburbs in DC, Miami and Los Angeles

Google Is Appealing a $5B Antitrust Fine in the EU

Stamping Out Overflow Checks in Ruby

Essay: The Digital Death of Collecting

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

Skio (YC S20) is hiring founding engineers

Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code

Show HN: Generate shared 2FA codes for your entire team

Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15

COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure

New Myanmar’s junta has cut off internet/mobile in 22 townships

Armenia’s Warrior Queen

Moiré No More

Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind

Tech firms' nightmare: Vanishing green cards

“Death” one of 5 ways to lose at Chess, according to PGN standard

The loss of prolific contributors in Wikipedia

Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021?

Are There More Surviving Ancient Writings in Greek or Latin?

Many UK petrol stations run dry amid panic buying

Racketscript/Racketscript: Racket to JavaScript Compiler

Human Factors Design Guidelines for Multifunction Displays (2001) [pdf]

How I built forlater.email, my first big side project

Tesla offers ‘Full Self-Driving’ option, prompting criticism from regulators

How to Deal with Complexity Like a Pilot (Part 1)

Copyright claims on YouTube Bach videos

When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years

Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)

The Perfect Voxel Engine

Modern Communication: Sockets

Closest known relatives of virus behind Covid-19 found in Laos

What will programming look like in 2020? (from lambda-the-untimate)

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

Show HN: ML enabled creative tools for artists and designers

Bandwidth is experiencing a major outage

Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app

Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop

Thermal Grill Illusion

Code Review from the Command Line

Maybe the Spaghetti Code Conjecture Is False

Interview: Vox calls progress studies “one of the more intriguing intellectual

The Science of the Benefits of Religion

The Case for ‘Developer Experience’

OpenTTD 12.0-RC1

Antinets (a.k.a. analog Zettelkästen) and the power of tree structures

AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Through the Silicon Ceiling

A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

The Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation

Wyoming natural gas flared for cryptocurrency mining exempt from taxation

Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go

Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research

“Pay for success” contracts – a model to develop new therapies from old drugs

Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring Software Engineers

Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits

House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week

Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001)

America is substantially reducing poverty among children

New evidence of fabrications behind the Trump-Russia theory

Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep

Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US

5G in India Will Only be Successful If This Happens

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns

200k-Year-Old Hand Art Found Near a Tibetan Hot Spring

Sexy Cyncism and Nihilist Elitism

Nginx Playground

Android Auto Upgrades User Experience for Car Travellers

TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy

“Why should I use Nyxt if I can use Vimium?”

How Fast Do Algorithms Improve? [pdf]

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view

AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A – How AWS Signs and Verifies API Requests

The New Population Bomb

Apple's Texas-Sized Problem

Easy Anti Cheat on Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

Vodafone Idea Revamps Workforce Essentials Plans

Catala Lang: DSL designed for deriving implementations from legislative texts

What the Tibetan Book of the Dead Teaches Us About Life

Native-Land.ca – Our home on native land

gRPC for Microservices Communication

Book review: The Checklist Manifesto

Mozilla Says Chrome’s Latest Feature Enables Surveillance

Fourier Series Visualisation with D3

RedBalloon – The Free Speech Job Board

Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?

Peter Thiel, Scourge of Silicon Valley

Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and land information

Provision TLS certificates for your internal services

Tenderjit – A JIT for Ruby Written in Ruby

Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure

Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Ay Chavrusa, Ay Meesusa

Remote work is widening the skills gap

CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring first PM to make cryptocurrency accessible

JupyterLab Desktop App now available

Spotify Box

You don't need a math PhD to play Dwarf Fortress, just to code it

Google Drive of Historical Footage Locked and Flagged as Terrorist Activity

Lab-grown meat companies may be on a billion-dollar crash course with reality

Micro-Max, a 133-line Chess Source

Python extension language using accelerators

5G Bands In India That You Should Look Out For

Meritocracy Is Bad

How We Got to LiveView

Walking Trees, Parasitic Flowers, and Other Remarkable Plants

Goldman Sachs: Here’s How Oil Prices Could Reach $90 This Winter

Raspberry Pi KVMs Compared: TinyPilot and Pi-KVM v3

Who Is Driving the Great Resignation?

Midwestern Exposure: places where early women photographers could build a career

TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do

No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image

DOJ Sues to Block Domestic Alliance Between American Airlines and JetBlue

That Time I Told My Wife I Wanted to Quit My Job

A game master's framework for software development

Mux is looking for engineers with experience building WebRTC infrastructure

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin

Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS

Goats Became the Unconventional Weapon Against Wildfires

What Happened to Safe: Valuation Cap and Discount?

Roblox Introducing Age Verification System, Includes Government ID Scan

Django 4.0 alpha 1 released

MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated

“I quit”: Cory Doctorow on smoking, indifference, and denialism

Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress

Telcos Will Get Clarity Regarding Trusted List In October

Real World Database Latency

Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?

Taming Go’s Memory Usage, or How We Avoided Rewriting Our Client in Rust

Manyverse – A social network off the grid

Rome will be written in Rust

What's the deal with tab size (8 spaces) in the GitHub UI?

A function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to enable goto in Python

Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10

Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren’t made for this era

What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020)

Emacs Typing Tutor

OpenSSL 3.0 released; relicensed to Apache-2.0

Cortex (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Engineers to Solve Microservice Complexity

Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future

Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry

This implanted microchip may one day control your sleep

Reading Code Is a Skill

The Death Generator

Adguard Letter of Support to Quad9

High genetic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal neutralizing antibody escape

Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?

Let's Encrypt's old Root Certificate is expiring

“A calorie is a calorie” violates the second law of thermodynamics (2004)

A Mathematician's Guided Tour Through Higher Dimensions

Vodafone Idea Might Finally Get Fresh Capital from Promoters

Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021

Wcap: Simple and efficient screen recording utility for Windows

How to Ride a Motorcycle – 1942 British Military Training Film [video]

Tribler: Search and download torrents with less worries or censorship

20 kV Diode Teardown [video]

YouTube has a spam problem, and it's getting worse

A solution to Newcomb's paradox

“600-500 BC Etruscan” Ceramic Boar Vessel exposed as probable fake

PCB Metro Map

How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store

The Melodies of Subways Around the World

Show HN: I Built Four Eight-Foot-Long Handwriting Robots

The curious case of fake NASA geniuses

OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring a Product Manager

Private companies will launch a new fleet of moon landers

Category Theory

Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication

PenPot 1.8.0 Alpha

What Is Property Based Testing?

The Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning – and Now Won’t Leave

Process Intensity (1987)

The Combinatorial Object Server

Pakistani guy frauds $200M to AT&T with illegal unlock phones. Sentenced to 12Y

Games That Emphasize Emergent Narrative

128-bit RISC-V assembler

Generally Intelligent Is Hiring Machine Learning Research Engineers (Remote, SF)

How Marvel took over cinema and TV

Mice don’t get Alzheimer’s, so why test Alzheimer's drugs on them?

Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

Color Map Advice for Scientific Visualization

Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England? – Menu

Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring senior software engineers

Why the American Shoe Disappeared and Why It's So Hard to Bring It Back (2019)

Tired of dating apps, Vancouver man launches social experiment to find companion

Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main