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ASML US brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. Read more

日本能否保住“功率半导体大国”之位？日经中文网

在纯电动汽车（EV）等的核心零部件“功率半导体”开发方面，日本企业正展开激烈竞争。与中韩企业具备优势的存储器不同，功率半导体的源头是面向电力企业的工业设备等技术。因此，东芝和三菱电机等日本重型电 Read more

Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite

But with SQLite, 200 or more SQL statement per webpage is not a problem. SQLite can also do large and complex queries efficiently, just like client/server databases. But SQLite can do many smaller queries efficiently too. Read more

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. Read more

Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers

I’m Josh, one of the co-founders of Noya (https://noyalabs.com). Noya is designing a cheaper process to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere. We do this by retrofitting industrial cooling towers owned and operated by other companies to perform carbon capture. Read more

Building Rich Terminal Dashboards : Hacker News

This is sad because Will writes great posts[1] and great software[2], but somehow his submissions mentioning Rich tend to end up dead. Would it be a case of bad project name for HN titles? Read more

Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

Here in Europe, articles are coming out complaining that the slow vaccination could be harming the economy which, well, fucking duh. (https://ift.tt/3qv33kK) Fast rollout. Involve pharmacies. Involve the army. Distribute widely and efficiently. Read more

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