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Hacker News (Mar 2021)
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A hacker got all my texts for $16
563 points • comment • mar 15, 2021
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The absolute worst scenario happened
560 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
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Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
559 points • comment • mar 30, 2021
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Speed Is the Killer Feature
559 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
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The S in IoT is for Security
558 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
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Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
557 points • comment • mar 11, 2021
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We created a fake language to root out resume liars
557 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
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Voltswagen of America
556 points • comment • mar 30, 2021
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GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models
554 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
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The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram
553 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
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Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
549 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
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New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations
546 points • comment • mar 09, 2021
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I made an eInk newspaper
544 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
543 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
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Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study
542 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
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Internet Archive Infrastructure
534 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
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Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
532 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
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Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
531 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
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Nyxt Browser
529 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
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Bring Your Own Client
522 points • comment • mar 05, 2021
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Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
521 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
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Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
521 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
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FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage
521 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
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Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
520 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
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Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
517 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
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Zero Data App
516 points • comment • mar 06, 2021
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We Don’t Use Docker
512 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
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The MIT Press launches Direct to Open
509 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
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The Kilobyte’s Gambit
508 points • comment • mar 07, 2021
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Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
502 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
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US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
499 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
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Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
498 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
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Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes
497 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
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In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
497 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
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Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
496 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
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Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf
496 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
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Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?
495 points • comment • mar 14, 2021
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Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
494 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
486 points • comment • mar 09, 2021
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Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
486 points • comment • mar 30, 2021
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
486 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
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Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
485 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
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Do you really want Linux phones
484 points • comment • mar 25, 2021
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UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
480 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
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U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent
479 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
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What's New in SQLite 3.35
478 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
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Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
473 points • comment • mar 18, 2021
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EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
471 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
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Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python
469 points • comment • mar 30, 2021
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Cookie Consent Speed Running Game
467 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
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Generate Flowcharts from Text
467 points • comment • mar 01, 2021
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Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
466 points • comment • mar 23, 2021
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Write Simply
464 points • comment • mar 11, 2021
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'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]
463 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
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Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments
463 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
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Female Founder Secrets: Fertility
460 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
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HN was down
458 points • comment • mar 15, 2021
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Text to Image Generation
458 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
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Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board
457 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
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The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber
453 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
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Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman
453 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
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Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
452 points • comment • mar 11, 2021
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CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
450 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
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My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card
448 points • comment • mar 11, 2021
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Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
446 points • comment • mar 20, 2021
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What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur
446 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
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Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
445 points • comment • mar 07, 2021
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PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
444 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
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I tracked down my impostor
444 points • comment • mar 27, 2021
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Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
441 points • comment • mar 07, 2021
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Addiction to Outrage (2020)
438 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
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Docker for Mac M1 RC
437 points • comment • mar 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
435 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
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SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme
434 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
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The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
433 points • comment • mar 20, 2021
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Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count
431 points • comment • mar 31, 2021
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UK to depart from GDPR
431 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
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John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
430 points • comment • mar 21, 2021
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100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
430 points • comment • mar 04, 2021
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U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years
430 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
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Early-Retirement Update
428 points • comment • mar 22, 2021
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Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable
428 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
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Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
427 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
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Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
423 points • comment • mar 16, 2021
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Bitcoin Is Time
421 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
421 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
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The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption
420 points • comment • mar 15, 2021
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Emoji Under the Hood
419 points • comment • mar 24, 2021
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M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
419 points • comment • mar 03, 2021
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MIPS Becomes RISC-V
418 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison
417 points • comment • mar 17, 2021
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Excel Never Dies
415 points • comment • mar 08, 2021
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Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
413 points • comment • mar 10, 2021
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Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode
412 points • comment • mar 20, 2021
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Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
411 points • comment • mar 15, 2021
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How can you tell if someone is lying?
410 points • comment • mar 28, 2021
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I Like That the Boat Is Stuck
410 points • comment • mar 26, 2021
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You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
409 points • comment • mar 12, 2021
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Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City
409 points • comment • mar 02, 2021
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DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results
408 points • comment • mar 04, 2021