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Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö 103 by ocrb | 95 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: No Signup, Yet, Authenticated Posts 31 by publiush | 21 comments on Hacker News.

How Y Combinator Changed the World 15 by philonoist | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI 118 by danso | 47 comments on Hacker News.

Calculate but Don’t Shut Up 7 by Petiver | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Reusing C libraries: The Oberon+ cross-platform FFI language 10 by Rochus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980 11 by WoodenChair | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Trials in Renovation 5 by ohaikbai | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything else 9 by nemoniac | 0 comments on Hacker News.

/R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned 67 by h4kor | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Will Citroen manage to re-invent the wheel? 10 by simonebrunozzi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence 31 by colinprince | 21 comments on Hacker News.

Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number 102 by tosh | 91 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible 85 by g105b | 20 comments on Hacker News.

FAA investigating controversial crash video 229 by nostromo | 175 comments on Hacker News.

Tetr.io 166 by trms | 64 comments on Hacker News.

VLISP: A Verified Implementation of Scheme (1993) [pdf] 51 by servytor | 3 comments on Hacker News.

The bizarre Monowheel seen through vintage photographs 36 by davesailer | 18 comments on Hacker News.

A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods 10 by zdw | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Consider SQLite 225 by wesleyac | 174 comments on Hacker News.

GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty” 144 by scblzn | 61 comments on Hacker News.

Features of a dream programming language 14 by redbar0n | 5 comments on Hacker News.

First Dual-Channel IDE? 31 by kencausey | 1 comments on Hacker News.

An Unintended Solution for Includer’s Revenge / Counter (hxp 2021) 5 by GuyLewin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Tzintl.js – International Date-Time Conversion 10 by masswerk | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system 40 by jstearns | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Container-to-Container Communication 30 by miketheman | 21 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: MLConsole – web app to train ML models, for free and client-side 8 by halflings | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Hypertext '87 (1987) [pdf] 9 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go 32 by binwiederhier | 9 comments on Hacker News.

What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s 15 by lermontov | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Want to Be an Actuary? Odds Are, You’ll Fail the Test 45 by pondsider | 48 comments on Hacker News.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection 8 by Tomte | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Midwest Developer 32 by luu | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials 6 by FabHK | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Superhighway84 – a Usenet-inspired decentralized internet discussion system 6 by d99kris | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Energy Efficiency of Modern Codecs 6 by edent | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Debugging Unaligned Project Teams 8 by shbhrsaha | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How to Open a Door (1979) [video] 8 by miohtama | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield 7 by pseudolus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The “Happy Birthday Chip” and Beam Robots 7 by ChuckMcM | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse 93 by tzs | 62 comments on Hacker News.

Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow 30 by neom | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for their iOS app 19 by tosh | 2 comments on Hacker News.

A Lunar Farside Low Radio Frequency Array for Dark Ages 19 by spekcular | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Fast Counting with PostgreSQL and Haskell 6 by EntICOnc | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Real-Time Error Correction for Quantum Computing 6 by rustoo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

MEMS Microspeakers Made from Silicon 14 by giuliomagnifico | 2 comments on Hacker News.

A Man from the Future – John von Neumann’s nuclear vision 11 by Hooke | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS 14 by marinesebastian | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Typejuice: Docs generator for .d.ts files inspired by godoc 8 by jgalvez | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Introduction to the Sam Text Editor 10 by naetius | 1 comments on Hacker News.

All the giant companies used ffmpeg 9 by tosh | 1 comments on Hacker News.

London Beer Flood of 1814 8 by zeristor | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management 1 by ethanyu94 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Legal Drafting and Computer Programming 12 by admp | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Corrugated-paper-making machine patent (1918) 3 by simonebrunozzi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019) 36 by ColinWright | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Attrs – The One Python Library Everyone Needs 12 by aqeelat | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Quanta of the Third Kind 12 by mathgenius | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal 35 by CSDude | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Crisp: Critical Path Analysis for Microservice Architectures 8 by rakingleaves | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Counting website visitors is hard 11 by bobbiechen | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends 39 by robertheadley | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “Worst thing we did” 228 by amitk1 | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (2013) 11 by simonebrunozzi | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers 11 by sohkamyung | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++ 25 by ksec | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class (2011) [pdf] 19 by Tomte | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Death of John Berryman (1996) 8 by brudgers | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Myths about the brain 71 by dnetesn | 26 comments on Hacker News.

The Wax Engraving Print-Making Process 10 by itronitron | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Machine to Play Game of Nim (1940) [pdf] 13 by Hooke | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse 23 by dwynings | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) 13 by Hooke | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans 16 by Thevet | 1 comments on Hacker News.

A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (2017) 56 by hoffmannesque | 59 comments on Hacker News.

Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud 13 by aleyan | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Death by Coconut 12 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Is Singapore's war on drugs working? 22 by pantalaimon | 11 comments on Hacker News.

BlackHole Audio Driver 23 by colinprince | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Celebrating 20 Years of Cube: An in-depth interview with Aardappel 11 by walterbell | 1 comments on Hacker News.

How are Rome's monuments still standing? 40 by clouddrover | 24 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually 79 by abelsm | 25 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://ift.tt/32bwsti Exported source code: https://ift.tt/33N3Eb9 Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, qui...

The death of feature engineering is greatly exaggerated 8 by agnosticmantis | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2022? 27 by tmaly | 23 comments on Hacker News. If I wanted to keep my skill set sharp. What top 3 tech skills should I learn in 2022 to keep providing the most value in your opinion?

Telling the time with computer vision 21 by jinay | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Self-Organizing Teams 11 by bndr | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Webb telescope has 'perfectly misshaped' mirrors 6 by Stratoscope | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Does Superdeterminism Save Quantum Mechanics? 11 by nsoonhui | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Against Translation 6 by behoove | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta 16 by underscore_ku | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins 34 by rsj_hn | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17) 50 by herodotus | 29 comments on Hacker News.

The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy 8 by mooreds | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Catching Lightning in a Bottle 9 by geox | 2 comments on Hacker News.

In the beginning was CAOS (1988) 4 by nickt | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Shinjuku: Preemptive Scheduling for μsecond-scale Tail Latency [pdf] 8 by mlerner | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Windows: The next killer application on the internet (1994) [pdf] 10 by tosh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Haskell School of Music (2012) [pdf] 6 by pizza | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Why Not Rust? 40 by spekcular | 15 comments on Hacker News.

Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning 43 by phab | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Toba Catastrophe Theory 7 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Wingman for Haskell 24 by dunefox | 1 comments on Hacker News.

See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym' 8 by DrNuke | 3 comments on Hacker News.

An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper 32 by simonebrunozzi | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Possibility of the Impossible 6 by jimhefferon | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material 8 by prostoalex | 0 comments on Hacker News.

UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back) 31 by boros2me | 9 comments on Hacker News.

“With those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2” 11 by mmastrac | 2 comments on Hacker News.

The rise and fall of rationality in language 26 by olifante | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What's it like to star in a flop? 15 by edward | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Sheppard’s Warning 14 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Incorrectly Deleted from Facebook? Getting Back on Might Take Connections 20 by nradov | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Notches Gone Wild – MacBook Pro related 8 by hzlatar | 1 comments on Hacker News.

California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD” 15 by camjohnson26 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

JPMorgan Admits to Widespread Recordkeeping Failures, Agrees to Pay $125M 62 by DocFeind | 25 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience” 185 by beervirus | 65 comments on Hacker News. I just got this text: > VZ Msg: Introducing Verizon Custom Experience. VZ content & offers are more relevant using web browsing & app usage info. For info or to opt-out: m.vzw.com/CE And all I can say is: fuck that.