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Programming as Theory Building – Peter Naur 4 by onlurking | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The 5.7 kernel is out 14 by thuva4 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Anonymous returns: Hacker group targets police and Trump administration 37 by Farbodkhz | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Mimir – A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Imager, Spectrometer and Polarimeter 5 by app4soft | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Prowords 29 by tosh | 6 comments on Hacker News.

There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes which create more than 7,000 chemicals upon burning. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are toxic.

Horoscope Today: Are the stars lined up in your favour? Find out the astrological prediction for Aries, Pisces, Capricorn, Leo and other zodiac signs for June 1.

According to the national transporter, around 26 lakh passengers have booked for Advance Reservation Period (ARP) from June 1 to June 30. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3crJmmk

The Maharashtra government extended till June 30 the lockdown in the state, but announced phase-wise resumption of activities under its “Mission Begin Again” plan. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3cmV7KG

“The future history books will recognise this government as the harbinger of doom. Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks about protecting democracy. Until March 24, they throttled democracy,” senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3gGV2os

Supreme Court Judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul also made a case for individual discretion and responsibility with respect to sharing fake news. “Any regulation of social media may impinge on free speech and right to privacy. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2Aql9PW

The country will enter the fifth phase of the coronavirus lockdown with a three-phased exit plan. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2zEDvN9

India, meanwhile, registered its highest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases on Sunday with 8,380 new infections. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/36RHcey

Is this the most orderly nation? 10 by ErnstByner21 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Brex Lays Off 62 Employees 33 by SQL2219 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf] 13 by headalgorithm | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Website Will Selfdestruct 27 by boh123 | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Today, India enters what the home ministry calls Unlock 1.0, the next phase of the exit from the lockdown with 190,533 cases. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2MjdR2W

Hacker News Security 36 by itsspring | 8 comments on Hacker News.

A Hierarchy of Engineering Values 15 by duncan_mcisaac | 0 comments on Hacker News.

This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist 25 by processing | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: k3sup ('ketchup') – bootstrap Kubernetes with k3s over SSH 18 by alexellisuk | 5 comments on Hacker News.

The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos 2 by danso | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Open GIF Search 6 by blululu | 3 comments on Hacker News.

StoneCutter: A Very High Level Instruction Set Design Language 5 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What happens when our two worlds — home and office — collide? from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZV2Eh4

While 98,355 people are in various quarantine centres, 2,81,178 people are in home quarantine, a bulletin from the state health department said on Saturday. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2BixO7X

Domestic passenger flight services resumed in the country from Monday after a hiatus of two months since the lockdown was announced on March 25. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3gNBvmq

Kashmir Zone police said in a tweet that a joint team of police and security forces are carrying out the operation in Poshekreeri village of Anantnag. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/36MPfsX

I Can't Breathe 32 by radmuzom | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories 8 by gilad | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting? 48 by genedangelo | 21 comments on Hacker News. In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master’s in Operations Research and a Master’s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the designation of ...

The Myers diff algorithm that is used in Git (2017) 5 by dgudkov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The PM had announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown on March 24 as a precautionary measure to contain the infections. The lockdown was later extended thrice till May 31. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3cfJu89

Marking the day, Modi addressed a letter to the citizens of the country, thanking them for their blessings, which he said helped the nation “take historic decisions and progress rapidly in the last one year”. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2TTW3Qe

These were among the achievements listed by the external affairs ministry during the first year of the second term of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3eFUFsB

Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor 3 by shashanoid | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Making a SNES game in 2020 (using modern tools) 25 by drludos | 3 comments on Hacker News.

The extra $600 in unemployment insurance has been effective 6 by viburnum | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Business at malls would take at least six months to a year for recovery from the impact of Covid-19, said Afshin KP, Manager at Mall of Travancore. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2Xf8eJw

Cracking WordPress passwords with 20 lines of Go 3 by frenxi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high 7 by harambae | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Nukemap 17 by rolph | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Operation of a silicon quantum processor unit cell above one kelvin 4 by martinmartinez | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Everyone had plans for 2020 — individuals, companies, even countries. Maybe it’s because of the ring 2020 has; or perhaps it’s because 20-20 stands for perfect vision. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2zL7SBs

Powers of Two (2017) 8 by momonga | 0 comments on Hacker News.

With regard to self acquisitions of Jayalalithaa, the petitioner and the respondent are the legal heirs as per Section 15(1)(d) of the Hindu Succession Act,1956. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZRcIb6

The two ministers also briefed each other on their experiences of fighting Covid-19. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3ev0dpA

The Odisha cabinet also granted permission to allow workers to work 115 hours overtime in three months. Women workers can now be engaged in all small and large-scale industries. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2zBPv1U

Narwal is the seventh person to be booked under UAPA in the case in which suspended Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain and two Jamia students – Meeran Haider and Safoora Zargar – are in judicial custody from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZSGewW

Licenses in a Subscription World 4 by robmay | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Goa government had in an earlier communication to the lokayukta declined to prosecute Parsekar and the two officers indicted for having allegedly renewed 88 mining leases “with malafide intention”. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2XfCofR

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the rise in the number of cases on the influx of migrant labourers from Covid-19 hotspot states such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2TQ96lR

The vehicle, a white Santro, was laden with at least 40 kilograms of explosives and found in a village near Rajpora in Pulwama district, where a suicide car bombing on February 14, 2019, left 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers dead. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2XMkosg

What is emergence? 13 by got-any-grapes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

World's deepest octopus captured on camera 12 by pseudolus | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Even as the year was marked by ideological triumphs for the BJP, its record on the electoral front was mixed, with more setbacks than successes. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3cfEKPS

The event could be the first in a series of webinars to be held with various states on the work-from-home policy, said an official at DARPG, which is spearheading efforts towards putting the policy in place. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3dbLAHs

In the first such instance, the Army has approached Baramulla administration, evincing interest in buying 129 kanal (6.5 hectare) of land at Kreeri high ground at Tapperwari in Pattan area of the north Kashmir district, where the troops are already “temporarily stationed”, defence sources said. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2XfBmjO

In 2019, the people of India voted not merely for continuity but also with a dream— of taking India to new heights. A dream of making India a global leader. The decisions taken in the last one year are directed at fulfilling this dream. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3epipB0

Military spokesperson Major General Babar Iftikhar said that the copter intruded 700 meters from Kanzalwan sector. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2TSiN2Y

Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966 32 by mmoez | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed 6 by henning | 0 comments on Hacker News.

This comes in the backdrop of two Indian pharmaceutical companies -- Cipla and Hetero Labs -- applying to the drug regulator seeking permission to manufacture and sell remdesivir in India.  from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2XJ8srh

The director-rank official, his wife and children tested positive on Thursday, the officials said, without specifying the number of children. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3cjTSMa

In Delhi, and in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, the proportion of tests returning a positive result remains high. In the seven days to May 21, the average daily positivity (as it is called) rate was 9.4% in Delhi. It was 17.9% in Maharashtra, and it was 5.7% in Tamil Nadu. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3dgkIGn

Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police Department 28 by jbegley | 0 comments on Hacker News.

SpaceX Starship SN4 launch vehicle prototype explodes after static engine test 14 by edward | 4 comments on Hacker News.

The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH 18 by tomwas54 | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third 8 by lelf | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Delhi, meanwhile, saw 1,024 new infections on Thursday, the first time national capital’s tally crossed the 1,000-mark in a single day. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2XbyEeZ

PM Modi had no conversation with Donald Trump over Ladakh. US President Donald Trump claimed earlier that Donald Trump had spoken to him regarding Ladakh and Chinese aggression at LAC. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZTQTay

The desert locust is a species of swarming short-horned grasshopper, and are known to devour everything in their path, posing an unprecedented threat to food supply and livelihoods of millions of people. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3gAShEW

Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3gvsRIV

This is the first time that a consignment has been sent abroad after the Covid-19 lockdown started on March 25, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2zEcPMc

Gaya SSP Rajiv Mishra said that the Myanmar nationals were detained as there was a Delhi Police look out circular pending against them. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2XDQF4R

One hundred seventy six Pakistani nationals stuck in India due to the lockdown returned to Pakistan on Wednesday through the Attari-Wagah border crossing. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZOrKxZ

India has also overtaken France in terms of number of coronavirus disease patients. In France, there are 87,733 active cases of the coronavirus disease and in India, the number is 88,923. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3eveliF

The Amarnath Yatra was scheduled to begin from the twin tracks of Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Baltal in Ganderbal district on June 23. The pilgrimage was to end on August 3 on the day of Shravan Purnima (Raksha Bandhan). from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2zJfhBh

So far, Jammu and Kashmir has recorded 2,036 cases with 52 Covid-19 patients in Pulwama. No death has been recorded in the district of the 27 fatalities in the Union territory. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2B7zMI1

What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016) 12 by pythux | 0 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners 43 by baylearn | 6 comments on Hacker News.

“GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners”, Brown et al. 2020 (OpenAI) 51 by gwern | 10 comments on Hacker News.

1989 California Medfly Attack 23 by eindiran | 2 comments on Hacker News.

OpenSSL 3.0 13 by ddb | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Deno Is a Browser for Code 29 by beefman | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function is about to die in SSH 19 by headalgorithm | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Officials familiar with Shah’s meeting with the CMs said many states have reiterated that the lockdown should be extended with considerable relaxation in economic activity. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3gx1ZYZ

Mux (YC W16) is hiring engineers to work on cloud video infrastructure 1 by jon_dahl | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Writings of Leslie Lamport 12 by kaymanb | 2 comments on Hacker News.

The Epic Games Primer 17 by homarp | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How Many People Did It Take to Build the Great Pyramid? 17 by samizdis | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Covid-19 cases spiked in Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Yadgir, Bidar, Raichur, Bengaluru Urban, Davangere, Kalaburagi, Hasssan, Belagavi and Udupi. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2TJaq9U

OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight 16 by LyalinDotCom | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Poems of my Father #3 – The First Snowfall 6 by BobbyVsTheDevil | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Sanitary pads are made of plastic, contain cellulose gum and have an absorbent material that converts liquid to gel. All these substances make these sanitary napkins highly polluting and harmful for the environment.

A 15-year-old girl who won praise for carrying her injured father hundreds of miles across India by bike said on Wednesday she never thought of giving up after promising her mother she would get him home safely.

In women with history of miscarriage, higher levels of physical activity have been associated with a greater risk of subclinical, or very early pregnancy loss, warn researchers.

The Cypriot government says it will cover lodging, food, drink and medication for COVID-19 patients and their families. Patients will only have to pay for the taxi ride to the airport and the flight back home.

People are more likely to accept LGBT+ people if they see them portrayed in film, television and advertisements, said a survey released on Wednesday, findings that supporters say illustrate the benefits of visibility to the LGBT+ community.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Pakistan Army had downed an Indian drone on Wednesday, which was an example of India aggression. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZQ0jUu

Vishnu Dutt Vishnoi, station house officer of Rajgarh police station, allegedly committed suicide on Saturday morning. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2yF1gnJ

A district official said the boy’s family members noticed the child falling into the uncovered borewell and initially tried to rescue him by using a ‘sari’, but in vain. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3dar4qD

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 8 by sohkamyung | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Simple-blogger – blog generated from GitHub project READMEs 5 by depthfirst | 0 comments on Hacker News.

We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline 21 by cloudfalcon | 6 comments on Hacker News.

The Puritan Bohemian 7 by pepys | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Menstruation is a normal biological process, which is the key in maintaining the reproductive well being of a woman.

Every month the womb prepares for a possible pregnancy and when this does not happen it sheds the lining of the womb which results in a period or menses. This usually happens once a month and a woman bleeds on an average for 5 days.

Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday 13 by notadog | 3 comments on Hacker News.

An English Clergyman’s Advice for Quarantine 5 by Petiver | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Regexes vs. Combinatorial Parsing 5 by pcr910303 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Day AppGet Died 30 by lostmsu | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller 9 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Horoscope Today: Are the stars lined up in your favour? Find out the astrological prediction for Taurus, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio and other zodiac signs for May 28.

Locusts entered Rajasthan from Pakistan in April, and then drifted into other parts of western India. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/3ejHwVR

Government officials and farm experts said desert locusts have engulfed around 35,000 hectares in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh since entering India on April 11. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2ZI7xKi

Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times. from Hindustan Times - india https://ift.tt/2X6zlGB