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50 years ago, The Electric Company used comedy to boost kids' reading skills (npr.org)

209 points by samizdis on Oct 25, 2021 | 114 comments

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An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (arxiv.org)

209 points by homarp on Oct 21, 2021 | 41 comments

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Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries (utcc.utoronto.ca)

208 points by nnx on Oct 27, 2021 | 91 comments

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New “Report a Problem” link on product pages (developer.apple.com)

208 points by keleftheriou on Oct 6, 2021 | 74 comments

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Network Programming with Go (tumregels.github.io)

208 points by BitAstronaut on Oct 11, 2021 | 12 comments

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Private keys used to sign EU Digital Covid Certificate might have been leaked (nitter.net)

207 points by qsort on Oct 27, 2021 | 203 comments

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The Single-Page-App Morality Play (baldurbjarnason.com)

207 points by midrus on Oct 15, 2021 | 131 comments

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European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance (schneier.com)

207 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 11, 2021 | 45 comments

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Antiviral Molnupiravir Reduces Risk of Hospitalization/Death by ~50 Percent (merck.com)

206 points by _Microft on Oct 1, 2021 | 270 comments

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First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (blog.alexellis.io)

206 points by alexellisuk on Oct 28, 2021 | 79 comments

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Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3 (sethmlarson.dev)

205 points by quentinp on Oct 18, 2021 | 198 comments

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How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40% (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

205 points by mips_avatar on Oct 28, 2021 | 171 comments

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This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods (reddit.com)

205 points by MattGaiser on Oct 2, 2021 | 144 comments

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Google DNS at 010.010.010.010 (010.010.010.010)

205 points by boramalper on Oct 30, 2021 | 123 comments

645.

PICO-8 – Fantasy Console (lexaloffle.com)

205 points by hidden-spyder on Oct 2, 2021 | 91 comments

646.

Slow Down, Finish Faster (briandicroce.com)

205 points by bdicroce on Oct 26, 2021 | 86 comments

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Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp (cgamesplay.com)

205 points by CGamesPlay on Oct 27, 2021 | 86 comments

648.

PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source (postgresql.org)

205 points by 9woc on Oct 5, 2021 | 25 comments

649.

Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning (arxiv.org)

204 points by azalemeth on Oct 26, 2021 | 131 comments

650.

7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent (zdnet.com)

204 points by LinuxBender on Oct 15, 2021 | 67 comments

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Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India (restofworld.org)

204 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2021 | 57 comments

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Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant (esghound.substack.com)

203 points by icapulet2 on Oct 16, 2021 | 193 comments

653.

Pop OS – System76 (pop.system76.com)

203 points by robfig on Oct 18, 2021 | 187 comments

654.

Multitasking Doesn't Work (health.clevelandclinic.org)

203 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 8, 2021 | 156 comments

655.

3D Printing Sex Toys (billieruben.info)

203 points by app4soft on Oct 10, 2021 | 137 comments

656.

A new biography of John von Neumann (economist.com)

203 points by sohkamyung on Oct 9, 2021 | 126 comments

657.

Cue: A new language for data validation (cuelang.org)

203 points by viebel on Oct 19, 2021 | 89 comments

658.

Show HN: vGPU and SR-IOV on consumer GPUs (arccompute.com)

203 points by ArcVRArthur on Oct 21, 2021 | 78 comments

659.

How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978) (urbigenous.net)

203 points by okareaman on Oct 23, 2021 | 51 comments

660.

Roguelike Celebration 2021 (roguelike.club)

203 points by Kinrany on Oct 16, 2021 | 46 comments