Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89 — Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public — and Report on Stablecoins [pdf]

Issue #575 — November 03, 2021

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Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89 brown.edu \| points: 752 \| comments: 297

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Google’s infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public youtube.com \| points: 706 \| comments: 286

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Report on Stablecoins [pdf] home.treasury.gov \| points: 641 \| comments: 621

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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn’t want to be hired?) news.ycombinator.com \| points: 578 \| comments: 748

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Curves and Surfaces ciechanow.ski \| points: 487 \| comments: 35

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Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code blog.joinmastodon.org \| points: 480 \| comments: 447

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MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative mangodb.io \| points: 412 \| comments: 193

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Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets christianheilmann.com \| points: 393 \| comments: 97

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Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate news.ycombinator.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 374

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People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency binghamton.edu \| points: 375 \| comments: 231

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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation blog.danslimmon.com \| points: 368 \| comments: 107

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Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14 lwn.net \| points: 354 \| comments: 70

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Firefox 94 mozilla.org \| points: 332 \| comments: 300

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Apple Silicon Macs can’t boot from external drive if internal drive failed bombich.com \| points: 326 \| comments: 288

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Culture shock siddhesh.substack.com \| points: 315 \| comments: 234

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Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service blog.zoom.us \| points: 312 \| comments: 201

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The metaverse is already here – it’s Minecraft clivethompson.medium.com \| points: 265 \| comments: 172

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SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (2019) jasoneckert.github.io \| points: 262 \| comments: 96

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Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt bloomberg.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 545

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Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator poor.dev \| points: 243 \| comments: 50

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