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Archives for 08 Aug 2021
  1. Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
    (294 points | Comments)

  2. One Bad Apple
    (1484 points | Comments)

  3. Apps Getting Worse
    (828 points | Comments)

  4. Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based
    (114 points | Comments)

  5. Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
    (112 points | Comments)

  6. BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent
    (103 points | Comments)

  7. Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
    (166 points | Comments)

  8. Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
    (118 points | Comments)

  9. Constexpr is a Platform (2020)
    (101 points | Comments)

  10. Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks
    (225 points | Comments)

  11. Screw You, Microsoft Edge
    (304 points | Comments)

  12. I closed a lot of browser tabs
    (156 points | Comments)

  13. The Kawa Scheme Language
    (101 points | Comments)

  14. Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
    (102 points | Comments)

  15. 30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
    (226 points | Comments)

  16. 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
    (126 points | Comments)

  17. Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
    (329 points | Comments)

  18. Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
    (300 points | Comments)

  19. The Principles of Newspeak (1949)
    (175 points | Comments)

  20. I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
    (323 points | Comments)

  21. Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection
    (195 points | Comments)

  22. Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
    (136 points | Comments)

  23. Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
    (227 points | Comments)

  24. RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)
    (116 points | Comments)

  25. Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)
    (101 points | Comments)

  26. FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes
    (182 points | Comments)

  27. Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1
    (217 points | Comments)

  28. The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]
    (206 points | Comments)

  29. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
    (761 points | Comments)

  30. Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine
    (132 points | Comments)

  31. The macOS Sandbox File Limit
    (172 points | Comments)

  32. Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health
    (172 points | Comments)

  33. Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?
    (153 points | Comments)

  34. Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”
    (223 points | Comments)

  35. Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
    (188 points | Comments)

  36. Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores
    (134 points | Comments)

  37. Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?
    (173 points | Comments)

  38. The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
    (159 points | Comments)

  39. Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration
    (118 points | Comments)

  40. Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window
    (102 points | Comments)

  41. The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
    (129 points | Comments)

  42. 1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults
    (297 points | Comments)

  43. Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable
    (233 points | Comments)

  44. Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
    (422 points | Comments)

  45. Space Station incident demands independent investigation
    (394 points | Comments)

  46. The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters
    (141 points | Comments)

  47. A street snack that has baffled botanists
    (484 points | Comments)

  48. The Elasticsearch Saga Continues
    (104 points | Comments)

  49. Trevor Moore has died
    (172 points | Comments)