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Labors of Love: Translations of Dante

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Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!

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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

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Labors of Love: Translations of Dante

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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

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The Fuel of Philosophers

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BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

Article URL: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/11/05/bmws-losing-touchscreen-functionality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371940 Points: 40 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/300qCdi via

A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K

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The Fuel of Philosophers

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Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/travel-column/article/Disneyland-is-a-price-gouge-16616134.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371654 Points: 15 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3E2kAro via

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

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A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K

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BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

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The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

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Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

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Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

Here's a very plausible threat: Some developer with a left-pad package, some dependency-of-a-dependency, injects malware into their library. A developer (who is broadly trustworthy) updates their package's dependencies without auditing them properly, and the malware ends up in a VSCode plugin that you use. You open VSCode, your system is infected. We know this sort of malware is making its way onto package repositories [1]. We know people are falling for these attacks. How do we protect ourselves against this family of threats? [1]: https://ift.tt/3eIvIio We could trust nothing beyond our base system and our browser, and refuse to use any code we don't fully audit, but this would be an impossibly austere way to live. I expect most of us, when pressed, would admit that we're trusting much more code than we would like to. The alternative is sandboxing, using a lightweight option like firejail (which I use) or a totalizing system like QubesOS. But these systems are awk

Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

For however you choose to define "worth". Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370922 Points: 57 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3FXN8CL via

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit

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Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79

Article URL: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-legendary-f1-team-boss-sir-frank-williams-dies-aged-79.mCPM4nj5n62elIhFoPhtv.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370704 Points: 66 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3lgquxz via

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit

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Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79

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Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

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Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

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