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Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots

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This Is Water (2005)

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Life After White Collar Crime

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Getting started with large format film photography

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Inductive Reasoning Aptitude

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Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

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Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old

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Do You Need a Blockchain?

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LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

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Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial

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Do You Need a Blockchain?

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Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [livestream]

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A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)

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Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial

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Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

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LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

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Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [livestream]

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Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

Hi HN, we're Ahmad, Sashakt, and Harshit of Kalam Labs ( https://www.kalamlabs.in/ ). Kalam Labs lets 6 to 14 year old kids learn their favourite science topics by watching live game streams and playing science games. It's like Twitch for science, except you also get to play :) Here's a sample video of our live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMmUg0N0HE High curiosity in kids is directly linked to better academic performance and better outcomes when they grow up. However, school leads to a drop in curiosity as they discourage asking questions and encourage “focussing on the blackboard.” Parents don’t have a solution, as internet resources are unstructured and unreliable and encyclopedias are static and boring for the kids. We were batchmates at our undergraduate degrees and worked together at India's largest educational body, NCERT. There we interacted with hundreds of kids, and they were really curious about science. Their heads were filled with questions l

“He who pays the piper calls the tune”: Funders suppress health trial findings

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Show HN: Simple tool for creating commandline bar charts

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“He who pays the piper calls the tune”: Funders suppress health trial findings

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Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science Games and live game streaming for kids

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Show HN: Simple tool for creating commandline bar charts

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