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  1. Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?

    If yes, what are they?

    47 points 32
  2. Ask HN: What web application server back end would you use for a new project?
    3 points 7
  3. Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?

    How does google know I bought Voltaren? Is my bank purchase history shared with google somehow? I guess it could just be coincidence?

    323 points 469
  4. Mystery animal sighting in Krakow ends up being a croissant (euronews.com)
    3 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Will Rust become a good career choice?

    I’d love to be a full time rust developer. Rust is very hard to learn and time consuming too. And there’s very few rust jobs out there. So I wonder if investing my time in learning rust will eventually lead to a career…

    12 points 20
  6. Ask HN: Will transaction ID wraparound be fixed in Postgres?

    Ive read quite a bit about this and it seems a serious problem. Will it ever be totally fixed or is it an un fixable problem for some reason?

    2 points 0
  7. CERN scientists run out of things to do after finding Higgs Boson (youtube.com)
    1 points 1
  8. CEO has special knack for recognizing great ideas and ruining them (youtube.com)
    3 points 0
  9. Mitch Davis: STM32 PWM and Timers (youtube.com)
    2 points 1
  10. Ask HN: Why can’t I play Zork by voice, narrated by Stephen Fry?

    In the car. Audio text adventures seem like a logical progression into the current audio craze.

    9 points 3
  11. Ask HN: What’s the Point of “Else”?

    Is there any point to the else after an if? Why do we need else? Can’t we chuck it away? Does else serve a purpose? NOTE: I’m not talking ternaries. Ternaries are super useful.

    2 points 3
  12. Build a Raspberry Pi Kiosk (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  13. Assembly Language Misconceptions (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  14. Ask HN: Are domain name companies selling queries to front runners?

    I don’t have hard evidence but I suspect a domain I searched for was registered pretty quick, but not by the company I searched at, by another company. I wondered if maybe the domain name companies sell the history of…

    19 points 14