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Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules

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Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job

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Expanded Protections for Children

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Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022

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HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse

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Firefox: Performance in Progress

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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

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In Praise of PostgreSQL

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A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard

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Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border

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Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]

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Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection to Facebook

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The insides of pro bowling balls

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Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem

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The Drunken Bishop Algorithm

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Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text prompt using VQGAN+CLIP

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Open Question: How Can We Fix Files?

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America is plummeting down the global vaccination league table

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Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster plans

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Declined invitations go over more graciously when lack of money is cited

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Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase

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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design

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Micro-models: purposefully overfit models that are good at one specific thing

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Show HN: Made an internal communication app with just SWIFTUI

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Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One

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Radio was the original overhyped technology

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Stanford AIMI releases free open-source repository of medical datasets

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NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor

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Parametric Programming – an equational approach to OO and beyond

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Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location

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Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City

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Scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream

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Global Sourcebook for International Data Management

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Object Wake-Up: 3-D Object Reconstruction, Animation from a Single Image

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Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill

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Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds

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NYU Researchers Studying Disinformation on Facebook Cut Off

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Ivermectin Systematic Study: Inconclusive

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Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management

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Second Hottest July in Europe on Record, Third Warmest July on Record Globally

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Bill Gates says it was a "huge mistake" to spend time with Epstein