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German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9

Silbo Gomero: ‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

Cancer therapy from Princeton holds potential to switch off major cancer types

AWS Outposts

Reducing an LTO Linux kernel bug with cvise

6kW OzInverter – DIY Pure Sinewave Inverter

UI/UX Designer at Nimble (YC S17) – P/T with F/T option

An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation

New research links potentially toxic fat-protein complexes to Alzheimer's

Proposed Bill to Outlaw Bots from Scalping Online Goods [pdf]

Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses

AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications

FBI access levels to different messengers

DESQview/X: The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

The US C-Band Spectrum Saga, Explained

Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air

Jio, Airtel, Vi Asked DoT More Time for 5G Trials, But Why

Back End Developers on Hackathons Are Not Needed

AWS Redshift Serverless

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought

Researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring

Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto

Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce

Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma

Show HN: An AWS Savings Plans Calculator

“It's not peaches and cream either for men”

Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout

Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management

AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion

Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)

Digging for Utopia

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (2014)

Breakthrough, PhD student creates a simple, cost-effective laser on silicon

BSNL Withdraws 100GB at Rs 499 Plan, Introduces New Quarterly Payment Scheme

Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi

The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3

Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs

Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with html5 video tags

A Constitutional Convention is closer than you think

Anthocyanins

Naval said to productize myself. WTF does that mean?

How to Save a Ski Town

Designer Diary: The Seeds of Stardew Valley: The Board Game

Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became the Norm Again

Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?

Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language

Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!

Update on Omicron

Why don’t we just open the windows? covid19 prevention lost in translation

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’

The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)

McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

Labors of Love: Translations of Dante

BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K

The Fuel of Philosophers

Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

A prioritised micro-batch scheduler in rust

Rare Greek Variables

A Utopia of Useful Things

BSNL Worthy Prepaid Plans Under Rs 300

Five Books That Changed My Career as a Software Engineer

More Cash Invested in Stock in 2021 Than Two Decades Combined

My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours

Explainer: .DS_Store Files

Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?

The Myth of Multitasking (2008)

Tell HN: GitHub is down again

Spirituality Shaped Leonard Cohen

SQLite 3.37 Is Released

Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

Godot Engine – Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)

Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture

2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed

Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf]

India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence

Code with Engineering Playbook

Pinning in Plain English

California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies

PyTorch: Where we are headed and why it looks a lot like Julia (but not exactly)

Omicron Variant: Early Analysis

New in C# 10: Easier Lambda Expressions

EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft

Teach Yourself Computer Science (2020)

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

Skio (YC S20) Is Hiring

Repairing an HP 3478A Multimeter with a Hacksaw

Games for IBM AS/400

The Internet Is Held Together with Spit and Baling Wire

Samsara S-1

$200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here

Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language

Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

Two years and 300K downloads since The Program audio series' launch on HN

Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks

I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

Crypto’s hottest game is facing an economic maelstrom

Ericsson, Porsche Enter Into Partnership For 5G Future

Wi-Fi 6: A Much-Needed Upgrade

A Live Look at Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales on Shopify

'Art Is the Opposite of Spectacle': The Notebooks of Gabriel Orozco

Canada tells Boeing its bid for C$19 bln fighter jet contract falls short

Work from Home Broadband Plans from Airtel, Jio, BSNL, Vodafone Idea

An Odd Card Trick

Dead Ends of IT

Umarell, men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Last year 90% of Black Friday deals were cheaper six months before sales event

Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring Software Engineers

What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge

B.1.1.529

PHP 8.1.0 Release Announcement

The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere

Check Point discover vulnerabilities in chips embedded in 37% of smartphones

Amazon Linux 2022

Sending mobile push notifications to yourself

Oppo Reno7 Series Launched With Powerful Chipsets, Better Cameras

Ask HN: What are the early signs of singularity?

Nearly two-thirds of Gen Z think they’ll become crypto millionaires

Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning

Poco X4 Could Launch in India Soon, Spotted at IEMI Database

SafeButler (YC S17) Is Hiring Marketing Manager

Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git

Ask HN: I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?

How to implement and use .noinit RAM

Getting Started with Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments

Greening of the Earth mitigates surface warming

Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain

YC Founders Online at YC's Winter Job Expo on Thurs Dec 2nd

A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

Two Norwegian journalists arrested after interviewing Qatar World Cup Manager

In a Nation That Loves Accordions, He Loves to Fix Them

Thinking in OODA Loops [slides]

Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming [pdf]

Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats

The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (2019)

Satcom to Let People In Unconnected Areas Access Internet

Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes life meaningful" poll

Greek myths of programming – how to find a mythological god of programming?

Germany will legalize Marijuana and promote drug harm reduction

The Secret History of ATAPI

JavaScript engines achieve great performance

Fox News Breaking News Alert

GoDaddy Breach Widens to TsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory and More

Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Our fundraising learnings post-YC

Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web

iOS 15: Three Hidden Features You Didn’t Know About

Dover (YC S19) just raised $20m and is hiring for all roles

The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education

Things I learned from building a production database

India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says

Albrecht Dürer: Self-publicist, tourist, entrepreneur, Renaissance artist

An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and Its Possibilities)

End of Support for Firefox Lockwise

C64

German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical

How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL

Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers

Osseosurface Electronics – Musculoskeletal Biointerfaces

Covid-19 death rate difference b/w those who are vaccinated and those who aren't

Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

You Should Be Afraid of the Next ‘Lab Leak’

Show HN: Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design

Examples of the Importance of Context-Sensitivity in Data-Centric AI

Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-based development tools

SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web

Show HN: Janken – A rock paper scissors game

Probiotic that produces lactase enzymes directly in gut

The 2 Sigma Problem [pdf]

Use Cases: The purpose of your code

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]

The case of Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL

The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses

Rust-CUDA: Extremely fast GPU code fully in Rust

Convictional (YC W19) Is Hiring Software Engineers (Remote)

GitHub – tzarc/djinn: Djinn Split Keyboard

Broadband Plans with 50 Mbps Speed for Moderate Data Consumption

Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

Svelte Cubed

Tutanota is now free for open source projects

Books I loved reading this year

What Makes Us Tick? New York Stock Exchange Cartoon (1952)

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Library Athena

WeWork and Adam Neumann: Scam or Genius? 5 Lessons Learned

Tesla, electric SUVs get poor scores from Consumer Reports

There are infinite worlds to explore

Neri Oxman's Synthetic Apiary

Writing Is Networking for Introverts

Japanese Dome House

The Kessler Syndrome: Space junk in orbit

Explanations for the Havana Syndrome

Thoughts on “E-Readers” (2009)

Show HN: Rust-Like Traits in Python

Reframing Tech Debt

Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Data Scientists in Boston (Reverielabs.com)

Los Angeles to ban wood-framed construction

Functorio

Graydon Hoare: What's next for language design? (2017)

Weekly Selection of Robot Videos

Chapter II, the Specious Present (1901)

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Trial of Mary Wade

Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find

The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language

Ovipost (YC W18) Is Hiring a Project Manager

The Soviet 1801VM3 Enhanced LSI-11 Processor

VAmiga online: Amiga emulator in the browser

What it's like to ride 900 km in a day

Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation

Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss)

The history of Flash games in China

Ask HN: What is your favourite gaming hardware/device?

Lagrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client

JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor

On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines

Maxima (Software)

How to programmatically find out if computer is on