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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers
134 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Links are not buttons (2013)
134 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Developers on what makes their games ‘hand-drawn’
134 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Teaching Machiavelli through his letters
134 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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First C compiler ported to GCC
134 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Jurigged – Hot code reloading for Python
134 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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SEC Charges 1inMM Capital, LLC with Operating a $690M Ponzi Scheme
133 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]
133 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
133 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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We scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis
133 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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A Ceph war story
133 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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The Culture of Whales
132 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Update on Git.php.net Incident
132 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
132 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Dream – Tidy Web Framework for OCaml and ReasonML
132 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations
132 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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EU Commission to end AstraZeneca and J&J vaccine contracts at expiry
132 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?
132 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1
132 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers
132 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
131 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Complexity, and the Lambda Calculus [pdf]
131 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Climate change and the 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals
131 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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1983: Suspended
131 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]
131 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Muon G-2 Experiment at Fermilab Finds Hint of New Particles
131 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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FOVO: A new 3D rendering technique based on human vision
131 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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The Crow Whisperer: What happens when we talk to animals?
131 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)
131 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive
131 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
130 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Nano 5.7
130 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (2015)
130 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (2019)
130 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Against Alcohol
130 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Traversing nested data-structures in various languages
130 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Evolution of Random Number Generators
129 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Why the United States has the best research universities
129 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Common interface for Linux NIC statistics
129 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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The art of taking down patent trolls
129 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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IBM COBOL for Linux on x86
129 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Interfaces and Protocols in Python
129 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation
129 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study
129 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery
129 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals
129 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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A second Bitcoin exchange collapses in Turkey amid crackdown on cryptocurrencies
129 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]
128 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Why American construction costs are so high (2019)
128 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?
128 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Scalability, but at What Cost [pdf]
128 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Orbital Mechanics – How do rockets get to where they're headed?
128 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Gisgraphy – open-source geocoder based on open data
128 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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The Economist's Style Guide [pdf]
128 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me
128 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science
128 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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The ransomware surge
128 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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SolarBatteryBitcoin
128 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Curl those funny IPv4 addresses
128 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Visual Studio 2022
127 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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API versioning has no “right way” (2017)
127 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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On UML
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power
127 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Leaving No Pixel Behind: Three Years in Xenia's GPU Emulation
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
127 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Tell HN: HN Replies Data Security Incident
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners (2018)
127 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code
126 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe
126 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware
126 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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lscpu + neofetch = cpufetch
126 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way
126 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Fedora Linux 34 is officially here
126 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Apple 2001
126 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Goblins: A transactional, distributed actor model environment
126 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the internet
125 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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My Son, the Organ Donor
125 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency
125 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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The Secret Life of Components: Springs [video]
125 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Someone in the Kalahari Collected Crystals 105,000 Years Ago
125 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc
124 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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SIMD for C++ Developers [pdf]
124 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
124 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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What’s the origin of the phrase “big data doesn’t fit in excel”?
124 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Figma: Changes to free plan after April 21, 2021
124 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Ghidra Analyzer for UEFI Firmware
124 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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The Discipline of DE (1978) [video]
124 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (2012)
124 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1
124 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Phoebus Cartel
124 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired
124 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Test for lists in Cython
124 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
123 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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SEC Director of Enforcement resigns after a few days on the job
123 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Dflat: SQLite FlatBuffers
123 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Starlink Ground Station Map
123 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline
123 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)
123 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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A record label bringing Iranian music to the world
123 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak
123 points • comment • apr 16, 2021