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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
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Medium
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
Rust is becoming a first class language in a variety of domains. At Discord, we’ve seen success with Rust on the client side and server…
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TikTok and the Network Effects of Creativity
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Remains of the Day
American Idle — Remains of the Day
TikTok’s Warp Scan filter is a bizarre concept for a filter in and of itself, but the myriad of ways TikTok users put it to use just shows what happens when you throw random tools to the masses and allow for emergent creativity. It only takes a handful of…
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Unsuck-It
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A quarter of the known bee species have not been sighted since 1990
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Animals
We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
A sweeping analysis shows an overall downward trend in bee diversity worldwide, raising concerns about these crucial pollinators.
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Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops
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30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why
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Macworld
30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why
Security researcher Red Canary has discovered a new malware target at Macs running both Intel and M1 chips but thereu2019s a twist: It doesnu2019t actually do anything.
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Start with a Niche
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As We May Think — products & tools for thought
Start with a niche [14/100]
The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.
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Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help
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Mars 2020 Descent and Landing Video
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Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite.…
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We are still using PBKDF2-SHA256
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SHA256 is a terrible choice for a PBKDF in 2019. · Issue #52 · bitwarden/jslib
https://github.com/bitwarden/jslib/blob/cd46f64993545a1cb772e2f6a2137a675554f3c3/src/enums/kdfType.ts It looks like the only supported choice for a PBKDF is SHA256. This is possibly the worst choic...
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It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly
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Arizona Capitol Times
It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly
This is a bipartisan issue. We know that taking on the app tax to bring businesses and jobs to Arizona is something we can all get behind, all while loosening the stranglehold Big Tech has over our…
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ZZT: Epic’s First Game
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How-To Geek
Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic’s First Game
Thirty years ago—on January 15, 1991—an American college student named Tim Sweeney released ZZT, a low-key adventure game with a revolutionary element: It shipped with a free, built-in game editor. ZZT’s success spawned Epic Games, Unreal Engine, and most…
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Gitlab 13.9
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GitLab
GitLab 13.9 released with a Security Alert Dashboard and Maintenance Mode
GitLab 13.9 released with a Security Alert Dashboard, Maintenance Mode, and so much more!
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India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark
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BBC News
How India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark
India's competitively priced artisanal fountain pens are attracting global attention these days.
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Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (2015)
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Nautilus
5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World
I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday.Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers…
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The way Daft Punk flipped the sample for One More Time
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X (formerly Twitter)
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Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of Covid-19 control measures
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The Lancet
Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of COVID-19 control measures
We think government lockdowns cause substantial collateral health damage. For example,
hospital admissions in the USA for emergency treatment of acute ischaemic strokes
have been substantially lower in February–March, 2020, than in February–March, 2019,
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On power markets, snow storms, and $16k power bills
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On power markets, snow storms, and $16,000 power bills
Once or twice a year, a company called Griddy makes headlines for the insanely high electricity bills incurred by consumers in ERCOT, the…
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An endangered species in the U.S. has been cloned for the first time
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FOX 5 New York
An endangered species in the U.S. has been cloned for the first time
Meet Elizabeth Ann. Created from the frozen cells of a black-footed ferret that died more than 30 years ago, she’s giving scientists new hope about preserving endangered species.
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Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3
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Buyforlife
Buy For Life
Find better products that benefit both yourself and the planet.
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Bird watching goes both ways
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Alta Online
Bird-Watching Goes Both Ways
A new study of urban raptors reveals their close attention to human behavior, even during a pandemic.
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