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Fear and Desire: On Stanley Kubrick’s first film

https://metrograph.com/fearanddesire/

Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/type-2-diabete...

TCP's congestion control saved the internet

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/24/tcp_congest...

Geometric Algebra for Electrical Engineers

https://peeterjoot.com/writing/geometric-algebra-f...

Hank Asher turned Americans’ private information into a business

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/magazine/hank-a...

Ways YC has changed in the last year

https://twitter.com/snowmaker/status/1705643839443...

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-g...

Startup Rivos Says Apple Intimidates Workers Who ‘Dare to Leave’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-23...

The tomato was thought to be poisonous in late-1700s Europe (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-th...

Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs

Things I learned building a text editor for the terminal

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/09/18/thin...

Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

https://www.lanternbioworks.com

EU proposes 10-year renewal for glyphosate herbicide

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-eu-year-renewal-glyp...

PiWrite – Kindle Paperwhite to Write

https://github.com/rberenguel/PiWrite

NASA seeks proposals for a spacecraft meant to safely deorbit the ISS

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2023/09/20/nas...

Natalie – a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++

https://github.com/natalie-lang/natalie

Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)

https://www.righto.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering...

Roman-Fleuve (2021)

https://literaryocean.com/discuss-the-term-roman-f...

Millions of people see staying home and cleaning as their idea of a good time

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cleaning-hacks-tips-...

How Australians made the early internet their own

https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-do...

My Pure Rust Wishlist

https://gburghoorn.com/posts/pure-rust-wishlist/

Reflections on my journey into computer science

https://rugu.dev/en/blog/computer-science-reflecti...

Show HN: pzip- blazing fast concurrent zip archiver and extractor

https://github.com/ybirader/pzip

“What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” – An Empirical Study (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20011113013913/http://...

Hedy Lamarr (2018)

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/...

How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data

https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/how-mastercard-s...

Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/attention-of...

What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@AshleyGullen/11110...

Knot theory [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DBhTXM_Br4

Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

https://bottlerocket.dev