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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
4097 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
3009 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Internal Combustion Engine
2311 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
1869 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Just Be Rich
1802 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research
1790 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
1670 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
1544 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Microsoft Coffee
1540 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Why Lichess will always be free
1514 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Dan Kaminsky has died
1359 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
1318 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
1312 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
1276 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Yayagram
1254 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
1247 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
1201 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
1199 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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My Current HTML Boilerplate
1181 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Show HN: Lofi.cafe
1178 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Google have declared Droidscript is malware
1174 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list
1164 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Embrace the Grind
1154 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
1101 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
1030 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Screw it, I’ll host it myself
1012 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
982 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
968 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
938 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Apple Introduces AirTag
930 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
921 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
909 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
906 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)
874 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
842 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
805 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
792 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Et Tu, Signal?
786 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)
783 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
780 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Changes at Basecamp
773 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered
760 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Show HN: PDFs from HTML
737 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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How People Get Rich Now
734 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
727 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters
718 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Coinbase from YC to DPO
709 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
708 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
701 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
700 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
698 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
694 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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It's your device, you should be able to repair it
694 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Use console.log() like a pro (2020)
686 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Docker without Docker
681 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Monkey MindPong
670 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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The health benefits of better air
669 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
667 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Deno 1.9
663 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
661 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Get better at Googling
661 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
655 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
655 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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The “Granny Knot”
653 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
653 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
652 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
651 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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The Norway Problem
649 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials
645 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
643 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
642 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Has UML died without anyone noticing?
635 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
632 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
632 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
631 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
627 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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I hope work from home continues
619 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
617 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
607 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Writing tools I learned from The Economist
607 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
607 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
596 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
592 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
586 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
576 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
576 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
575 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
575 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out
574 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir
573 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Programming is hard
571 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
569 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
568 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
568 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
567 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20
562 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
562 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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The Real Book
562 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
561 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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How Doctors Die (2013)
560 points • comment • apr 03, 2021