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W Virginia town of Green Bank has become a refuge for 'electrosensitive' people

washingtonpost.com
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Compliant DNA origami nanoactuators as size-selective nanopores

wiley.com
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Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Tech Lead

ycombinator.com
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Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

subvert.fm

Why create a Bandcamp alternative? + Bandcamp's back-to-back acquisitions—first by Epic Games in 2022, then by...
Why create a Bandcamp alternative? + Bandcamp's back-to-back acquisitions—first by Epic Games in 2022, then by Songtradr in 2023—have its community feeling betrayed and concerned about the platform they once relied on. Bandcamp's trajectory illustrates a depressing reality of the contemporary internet: platforms pos...
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US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed

apnews.com

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after...
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday a...

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The Feds Are Coming for John Deere over the Right to Repair

gizmodo.com

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating tractor manufacturer John Deere over long standing allegations that Deere...
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating tractor manufacturer John Deere over long standing allegations that Deere makes its farm equipment hard to repair. The investigation has been ongoing since 2021, and we know more about it now thanks to a court filing made public on Thursday. A data analytics company call...
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Hate the Process

ninjasandrobots.com
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Show HN: What happens if you make a crossword out of Reddit r/gaming

ycombinator.com
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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends

smolways.com
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My solar-powered and self-hosted website

dri.es
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setBigTimeout

evanhahn.com
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What do you visualize while programming?

dillonshook.com

I’ve been thinking a bit about thinking while programming lately. A bit confusing I know, but...
I’ve been thinking a bit about thinking while programming lately. A bit confusing I know, but hear me out.Programming is one of the few occupations that occurs inside our heads so it’s a little funny we don’t talk more about what actually goes on inside those heads.As a primer for the rest of the post, take 5 minute...
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Another Burnout Post

gushogg-blake.com

18 October 2024 I quit my last contracting gig in August with £40k in debt, no...
18 October 2024 I quit my last contracting gig in August with £40k in debt, no other income, and only a business idea (it failed). It was still the right decision. It’s hard to explain to people who aren’t programmers just how soul-destroying it is to work for someone else in this industry. Maddeningly hard, in fact...
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JSON Patch

zuplo.com

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RapidUDF: High-Performance JIT-Based C++ Expression/Script Engine

github.com
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How SpaceX's Starship Caught Its Booster on Re-Entry: Control Engineering

youtube.com

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US startup charging couples to 'screen embryos for IQ'

theguardian.com

A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using...
A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing IVF, according to undercover video footage. The reco...
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Show HN: Desktop app displaying files on a 2D canvas

limandoc.com
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Method Values

fogus.me

Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long...
Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long before method handles, method references, lambda expressions, and invokedynamic, so viewing Java through a functional programming lens was not second-nature to me. Regardless, during my early Clojure explorations I fully expe...

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The Making of Micro Machines

readonlymemory.com
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Open-source, uncensored alternative to CharacterAI

opencharacter.org
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The Solar Magnetic Field from Solar Minimum to Pole Flip

nasa.gov

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How the Malleus maleficarum fueled the witch trial craze

arstechnica.com

Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in...
Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches. Historians and social scientists have long studied this period in hopes of learning more about how large-scale social changes occur. Some have point...
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Permira completes Squarespace acquisition after upping bid to $7.2B

techcrunch.com

Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured...
Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm. Permira first revealed plans to acquire Squarespace back in May, offering shareholders in the NYSE-traded company $44 per share — this equated to an equity valuation ...
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