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zachrose

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  1. Ask HN: Why does this 90-degree USB adapter have a chip in it?

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TQNQWPZ Why isn't it just connectors? What is the chip doing?

    3 points 2
  2. Ask HN: How's the Kickstarter Union Going?

    I haven't been able to find anything about it except for news of the vote back in February.

    58 points 21
  3. Seven Essential Messages in the Time of Coronavirus (medicinanarrativa.eu)
    1 points 0
  4. Alt-Text as Poetry (alt-text-as-poetry.net)
    26 points 3
  5. Math and Mysticism (2017) (avant.org)
    2 points 0
  6. The Internet and the crisis of epistemic authority (leiterreports.typepad.com)
    2 points 0
  7. The Great Gizmo (1963) [pdf] (classes.dma.ucla.edu)
    1 points 0
  8. Antarctica is starting to turn green (washingtonpost.com)
    2 points 0
  9. Pg_tmp(1) Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL database (ephemeralpg.org)
    3 points 0
  10. North Korea’s Missile Launches Were Failing Too Often (nytimes.com)
    138 points 95
  11. We’re a tech company that makes suits so of course we published a hardcover book (medium.com)
    2 points 0
  12. Ask HN: Large scale mapping of JavaScript in the wild?

    Is there anybody crawling the web for JavaScript files and looking at metrics or patterns in the way that lexicographers might study a corpus of natural language?

    1 points 3
  13. Sheryl Sandberg Advises Managers to Ask Employees About Pregnancy (2013) (slate.com)
    10 points 0
  14. High School Student Builds Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2009) (stm-udlap.blogspot.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Reasons why your programming language sucks (wiki.theory.org)
    1 points 0
  16. Umberto Eco on Macintosh vs. DOS (jowett.web.cern.ch)
    2 points 0
  17. Capability vs. Suitability (2012) (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  18. Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time (2013) (phys.org)
    31 points 10
  19. Perl and Linguistics (1995) (world.std.com)
    3 points 1
  20. Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption (theguardian.com)
    3 points 1
  21. Is Software Art or Engineering? (1999) (spectacle.org)
    24 points 43
  22. California Ruling on LAPD License Plate Readers [pdf] (courts.ca.gov)
    2 points 0
  23. Pluto Time (solarsystem.nasa.gov)
    1 points 0
  24. Scientists edit the genomes of human embryos for the first time (washingtonpost.com)
    1 points 0
  25. MoMA’s Digital Art Vault (moma.org)
    44 points 7