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Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19

Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg

Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?

As above - what strategies have people got for attracting senior engineers to join a company full-time, when it's pretty much impossible to match day rates pro-rata in the contract market for anyone other than the FAANG's?

Starting a crypto project

IBM creates 2nm chip

Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece

Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece

Why I Work on Ads

Why I Work on Ads

Crazy New Ideas

Crazy New Ideas

LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)

60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent