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The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-2…

The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut

Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?

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RegEx Crossword jimbly.github.io/regex-cross…
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What's New in SQLite 3.35 nalgeon.github.io/sqlite-3-3…

What's new in SQLite 3.35

Math functions, column removal and RETURNING clause.

antonz.org
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Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern reuters.com/article/us-myanm…
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M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/m…

M.2 on a Raspberry Pi - the TOFU Compute Module 4 Carrier Board

Ever since the Pi 2 model B went to a 4-core processor, disk IO has often been the primary bottleneck for my Pi projects. You can use microSD cards, which aren't horrible, but... well, nevermind,...

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A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

Scientific Reports - A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

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Raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogame programming raylib.com/index.html

raylib

raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.

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My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinter…

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The Sweden Solar System swedensolarsystem.se/en/
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Red Flags I Saw While Doing 60 Technical Interviews in 30 Days meekg33k.dev/6-red-flags-i-s…
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Backblaze Is Now a Terraform Provider backblaze.com/blog/easy-stor…

Terraform Provider: Easily Provision and Manage Cloud Storage

Making provision of that storage easier for developers is part of Terraform’s DNA. Learn how to get started.

backblaze.com
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Julia Receives DARPA Award to Accelerate Electronics Simulation by 1,000x juliacomputing.com/media/202…
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I earn a living selling my open source software indiehackers.com/post/how-i-…

How I earn a living selling my open source software

Hi, I'm the founder and sole developer of my own open source software called open3A. It's a web-based invoicing application that I started in 2007 and h...

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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service tinyprojects.dev/projects/ma…
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Oracle Cloud is unreachable ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/in…
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Pets consume 30% of all meat products (2016) journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats

In the US, there are more than 163 million dogs and cats that consume, as a significant portion of their diet, animal products and therefore potentially constitute a considerable dietary footprint....

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Zapier reached a $5B valuation without VC funding forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…
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Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible, I hate it x.com/simonw/status/13697089…

Simon Willison
@simonw
10 Mar 2021
Replying to @philgyford @EmilStenstrom
I'm usually all about repecting user preferences, but I have a really hard time believing anyone would chose this as opposed to some design lead at Apple pushing a weird personal preference for tidyness on their entire user base
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Launch HN: Remora (YC W21) – Carbon capture for semi trucks news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/wh…
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