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What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)

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Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater

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Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records

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Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

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HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite
 

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Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021)

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Amazon Closing AmazonSmile

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Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn’t on/off less obvious?

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Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?
 

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Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss

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Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile

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Stock market charts you never saw (2021)

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Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop

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My best techniques for evaluating character
 

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A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)

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Show HN: Unblob – extraction suite for 30+ file formats

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Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil

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Facebook Container Extension

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Salesforce, but for Dating
 

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