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Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
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No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/1046
644
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Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer
https://zwbetz.com/attention-is-my-most-valuable-asset-for-productivity-as-a-software-developer/
639
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Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgzxvz/voters-overwhelmingly-back-community-broadband-in-chicago-and-denver
579
317
Amazon Review Scam
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1325882623424565248
567
207
I now have an Oculus paperweight
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476
556
McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
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457
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The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer
371
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How Go helped save HealthCare.gov
https://changelog.com/gotime/154
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Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union
314
47
A fun website that simulates fluid
https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/
311
161
Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams
https://gather.town/?ref=hn
298
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How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet
https://lord.io/blog/2020/spreadsheets/
143
A US Visa in 937 Days
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days/
275
89
What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5971
269
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The Tao of Programming (1987)
https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
267
46
Let’s Build a Video Card
https://eater.net/vga
255
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https://github.com/ogham/dog
248
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Cool Machine Learning Books
http://matpalm.com/blog/cool_machine_learning_books/
244
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https://nocomplexity.com/documents/arplaybook/index.html
238
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/88anxg/students-have-to-jump-through-absurd-hoops-to-use-exam-monitoring-software
212
104
Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell
https://twitter.com/a_Shell_iOS/status/1325526061099196416
201
53
A hidden gem in sound symmetry
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Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/
171
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How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-graphql-with-ruby-rails-active-record-and-no-n-plus-one
168
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Startups that have hit more than $1K MRR in about 12-24 months
https://openstartups.listt.xyz
166
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1714684
165
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Pijul: Towards 1.0
https://pijul.org/posts/2020-11-07-towards-1.0/
164
Start with pen and paper
https://sethetter.com/posts/start-with-pen-and-paper/
157
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Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development
https://thefuntastic.com/blog/why-rust-is-the-future-game-dev?
140
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XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12 Linux SBC's
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/09/xuantie-c906-based-allwinner-risc-v-processor-to-power-12-linux-sbcs/
135
39
On the Beauty of Python's ExitStack (2015)
https://www.rath.org/on-the-beauty-of-pythons-exitstack.html
129
65
Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Subsetting
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372297.3417866
126
75
Zero-Days in Desktop Web Browsers
https://www.radsix.com/dashboard1/
117
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The election of the doge
https://generalist.academy/2020/11/06/the-election-of-the-doge/
73
Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11/body-found-in-canada-identified-as-neo-nazi-spam-king/
112
19
Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/analyzing-the-limits-of-connection-scalability-in-postgres/ba-p/1757266
51
OpenBSD Router Guide
https://www.unixsheikh.com/tutorials/openbsd-router-guide/
101
Python Concurrency From the Ground Up (2015) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
97
90
Canadian government pledges to connect 98% of Canadians via High-Speed Internet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/broadband-internet-1.5794901
96
80
The blockchain/cryptocurrency space is mostly fraudulent
https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/cryptocurrency-is-garbage-so-is-blockchain-3e80078e77fe
93
Slingbox Discontinued Announcement and FAQ
https://www.slingbox.com/discontinued
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A Theory of Universal Learning [pdf]
https://web.math.princeton.edu/~rvan/tri201106.pdf
92
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Multicore OCaml: October 2020
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-october-2020/6729
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A pacifist's plan to survive the violent world of prison
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/05/a-pacifist-s-plan-to-survive-the-violent-world-of-prison
14
Drawing Machines
https://drawingmachines.org
74
Explicit term inference with Scala 3
https://www.scala-lang.org/2020/11/06/explicit-term-inference-in-scala-3.html
How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1