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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019)
83 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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The Buddhist history of moveable type before Gutenberg (2016)
83 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Deep learning model compression methods
83 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)
83 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Btrfs on Zoned Block Devices
83 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Perfectly Ordinary Stones, Carried for 1,300 Years (2014)
83 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Robinhood Files S-1
83 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Obsolete German Units of Measurement
83 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
83 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Ink Traps and Pals
83 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (2016)
83 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Non-profit legal entity for Mastodon being registered in Germany
82 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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OpenSSH 8.6 Released
82 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Texas Senate passes bill aiming to counter federal subsidies for wind and solar
82 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Does LEED Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings
82 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)
82 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman
82 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Let's Get Right to Repair Passed – Louis Rossmann
82 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Auth0 Down
82 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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NFT Canon
82 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Deprecated Grandparents of America
82 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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The myth of excess vacant housing distracts from solutions
82 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Reinventing a Prolog Machine (2018)
82 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space
81 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Segcache: A memory-efficient and scalable key-value cache for small objects [pdf]
81 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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European Urbanism and High-Speed Rail
81 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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In Thailand, traditional cannabis cuisine is back on the menu
81 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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The Browser – WorldWideWeb Next Application (2019)
81 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Princeton admits record-low 3.98% of applicants
81 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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2I/Borisov, the First Interstellar Comet to Have Visited Our Solar System
81 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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TorBox v.0.4.0
81 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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What happens after a bank closes all of your credit cards?
81 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Early Lisp Part II
81 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Surround Sound in Headphones
80 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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First-Class I/O
80 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery
80 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial
80 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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iMac 24-inch
80 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/Month
80 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Maybe I'm just not smart enough?
80 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation without censorship
80 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Serbian freelancers protest new taxation law that threatens push into poverty
80 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Viewpoints Research Institute concluded its operations at the beginning of 2018
80 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Black Girls Code
80 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019
80 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Tech Tent: Bye-bye Silicon Valley, hello global workforce?
80 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]
79 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?
79 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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USV Dumps 100% of Coinbase Stock
79 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf]
79 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Lunatic Python: Lua Inside Python, and Python Inside Lua
79 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
79 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge
79 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
79 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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The Pedal Movie
79 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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It's Cold on Mars
79 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Two Years of Squash Merge (2019)
79 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)
79 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure
79 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (2020)
78 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by user, subreddit, and date
78 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Medical Student banished from UVA campus for questioning Microaggressions
78 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Protocol – An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols
78 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Web developer's guide to AVIF images
78 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Metis and Bodybuilders
78 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'Asian' as adult content
78 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Simone Weil and the Need for Roots
78 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Am I Doctor Stallman?
78 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II
78 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (2019)
78 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Having fun with CP/M on a Z80 single-board computer
78 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults
77 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Facebook axes 16,000 groups for trading fake reviews after UK intervenes
77 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Can continuation passing style code perform well?
77 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Kunst Der Fuge Collection – Free Classical MIDI Files
77 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile
77 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity
77 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Are Hackers the New Luddites?
77 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three
77 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Patent Troll Needs to Learn a Lesson: Cloudflare Wants to Destroy Another Troll
77 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Dvorak vs Colemak (2010-2020)
77 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Snowden Dunks on 'The Get-Rich-Quick Real Estate Investing Conference
77 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding
77 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Decompiling FlatBuffers case study: Facebook's GraphQL schema (2020)
77 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Alphabet First Quarter 2021 Results
77 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVb: Cloth Money
77 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war
77 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)
77 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Exercise may help slow cognitive decline in some people with Parkinson’s disease
76 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmaking Glory
76 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Murex shell now supports mixing SQL and shell pipelines
76 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Drones Light Up Shanghai’s Sky with a QR Code
76 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Moving Forth (1993)
76 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Surgeons Perform First Human Tracheal Transplant Surgery
76 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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GitHub Collection: Made in India
76 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son
76 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Joyce Project
76 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Police Data Accessibility Project
76 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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College as a Marriage Market
76 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Write tasks not user stories – Linear Method
76 points • comment • apr 14, 2021