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  1. Computers, Spies and Private Lives (1981) (archive.org)
    2 points 1
  2. Ask HN: Non-duopoly smart phone in Sweden?

    Are there people in Sweden or the EU working towards changing the laws to require critical services (banks, school, health care, and the like) to support privacy-oriented non-Apple/non-Google servers for smart phone…

    64 points 87
  3. Show HN: Rectfillcurve – generate rectangle-filling curves (hg.sr.ht)

    How do you visit every coordinate in an NxM grid once? The easiest is to process line-by-line, from the first to last column, but if you want better caching you might try alternating the column direction for each row.…

    24 points 10
  4. Ask HN: Wuffs Examples for Text Files?

    I finally have time to try out wuffs (https://github.com/google/wuffs), which I first heard about here on HN. I want to develop a low-level tokenizer for SDF files, a small-molecule structure file format which started…

    1 points 0
  5. “Computers”, BSA Merit Badge Series (1973) (archive.org)
    61 points 67
  6. Delia Derbyshire – The Delian Mode [video] (youtube.com)
    24 points 4
  7. My Love Affair with Dozens (1972) [pdf] (dozenal.org)
    50 points 46
  8. Kaktovik numerals (en.wikipedia.org)
    26 points 11
  9. Ask HN: What can replace my iPod for podcast listening?

    My 16GB 5th gen iPod nano is dying. I'm looking for a replacement. Years ago Apple stopped selling anything except the iPod Touch, which is too large and fragile for me. I want something that fits into my pocket, with a…

    93 points 153
  10. Cheminformatics before Cheminformatics (2020) [video] (youtube.com)
    1 points 1
  11. Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference (bcc2020.github.io)
    1 points 0
  12. The chemfp project: problems selling free software (jcheminf.biomedcentral.com)
    66 points 47
  13. The Bourne collection: the history of online search (computerhistory.org)
    44 points 6
  14. The chemfp project: problems selling free software (jcheminf.biomedcentral.com)
    1 points 3
  15. Computing in Colour (2013) (gresham.ac.uk)
    17 points 3
  16. TileDB 2.0 and the Future of Data Science (medium.com)
    81 points 33
  17. The History of Computing in Colour (2013) (gresham.ac.uk)
    21 points 0
  18. Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer (cheminfo.org)
    3 points 1
  19. A Random Walk Through Ada (2014) (cowlark.com)
    36 points 15
  20. Have experience with PNG/IFF/4CC formats? I want design help.

    I'm designing a new format for a sub-niche of cheminformatics. I've used ideas common to FourCC formats: blocks with a size, 4-character name, and data chunk. I have blocks >2GB so I'm using 64-bit sizes instead of…

    4 points 3
  21. Empirical Evidence for the Value of Version Control? (neverworkintheory.org)
    4 points 6
  22. Experiences in writing and distributing free software for a fee?

    The FSF has long said that the "right to sell software" is an essential freedom, and "Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it!" I am thinking of going that route. That…

    1 points 0