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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
556 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
555 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Surprisingly Slow
551 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
550 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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A top-grossing scam on the App Store
550 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
546 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
544 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
543 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
542 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
537 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]
536 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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I can only think that modern front end development has failed
535 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
533 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
531 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
531 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach
530 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
530 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
529 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
529 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Show HN: Second-Chance Pool
523 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
522 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Zoom zero-day discovery
520 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
519 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
518 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
516 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Unsettling capital letters
515 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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CSS Tips
514 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III
507 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t
503 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac
501 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”
498 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
498 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
498 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
498 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
493 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
489 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
487 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Light Pollution Map
487 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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History of Techno
486 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
486 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel
481 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
478 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself
477 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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All C++20 core language features with examples
476 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Best practices for remote software engineering
476 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
475 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
472 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019)
471 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
467 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
466 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
463 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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RMS addresses the free software community
461 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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An Update on the UMN Affair
458 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Prince Philip has died
457 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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The Ponzi Career
456 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
455 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
454 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
453 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
452 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
450 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
449 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
449 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
447 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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My apartment was built on toxic waste
445 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
445 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices
443 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
442 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]
442 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
439 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail
439 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
436 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees
436 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection
431 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]
431 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
424 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
424 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
424 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest
423 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
421 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
420 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
420 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Godot 3.3
419 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
419 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Idempotence now prevents pain later
419 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
418 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Show HN: My personal website is a shell
415 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
414 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
414 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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FTP is 50 years old
412 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
411 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
410 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Ubuntu 21.04
410 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
410 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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QEMU 6.0
409 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses
408 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Best practices for writing SQL queries
407 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Cycles X
406 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
405 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died
405 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
405 points • comment • apr 01, 2021