Quiet Hacker News

  1. What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today (typesandtimes.net)
  2. Logical Fallacies in Software Engineering (artur-martsinkovskyi.github.io)
  3. Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam (shkspr.mobi)
  4. Recursive Make Considered Harmful (1997) [pdf] (aegis.sourceforge.net)
  5. Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine on the Planet (digit.fyi)
  6. Propofol-induced deep sedation reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation (advances.sciencemag.org)
  7. Byte Magazine – LISP (1979) (archive.org)
  8. Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole (nextdns.io)
  9. Nudging out support for a carbon tax (nature.com)
  10. The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock (1981) (atarimagazines.com)
  11. Self-distancing can help you make better decisions (effectiviology.com)
  12. Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017) (reuters.com)
  13. Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels (climatenexus.org)
  14. A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017) (kottke.org)
  15. Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics (wsj.com)
  16. Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  17. Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop (phoronix.com)
  18. The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation (tink.uk)
  19. Tiptoeing Through the Tundra (forums.mtbr.com)
  20. In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc (nytimes.com)
  21. Telnet BBS Guide (telnetbbsguide.com)
  22. Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft (phys.org)
  23. Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America (psychiatrictimes.com)
  24. Bob Widlar – The Life of an Engineering Legend (autodesk.com)
  25. SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine (everydayastronaut.com)
  26. ‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns (washingtonpost.com)
  27. An Invisible City Beneath Paris (newyorker.com)
  28. Founder Books (postmake.io)
  29. Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager (todox.app)
  30. Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011) (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
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