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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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53% of Canadians on the Brink of Insolvency
56 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%
56 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem
55 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Using a GPU Boosts Analytics Performance by 10 to 150 Times
55 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Album-a-Day (2001-2008)
55 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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SpaceX has a green light from the FAA to fly Starship on Friday
55 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Designing sockfuzzer, a network syscall fuzzer for XNU
55 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display
55 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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The Humble img Element and Core Web Vitals
55 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs
55 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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By 2012, scientists will have announced a cure for breast cancer (2006)
55 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?
55 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life
55 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Sir Douglas Nicholls
55 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Opening a malicious link on any device on your LAN can compromise an LG Smart TV
55 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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News Publisher Quit Facebook. Readership Went Up
55 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect
55 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change
55 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web
55 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Battle of document info extraction services: GCP vs. AWS vs. Azure
54 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling
54 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Discovering Diverse Athletic Jumping Strategies
54 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Exfiltrate Files Using the DNS
54 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Apple Podcasts Subscriptions
54 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Scientists make further step towards understanding dark energy
54 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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The Net interprets privacy as damage and routes around it
54 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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More sleep or more exercise: the best time trade-offs for children’s health
54 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
54 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Nassim Taleb says Bitcoin is an open Ponzi scheme and a failed currency
54 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Millions of Groundwater Wells Could Run Dry
54 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Saving Lebanon’s streets: the engineer with a sustainable fix
54 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landmark Homelessness Ruling
54 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Connectors That Changed the World
54 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Show HN: sheet2dict – simple Python XLSX/CSV reader/to dictionary converter
54 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures
54 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Oatly: The New Coke
54 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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A smartphone with a fluid lens
54 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code on Android
54 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Reasons to upgrade from Java 8
54 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument
54 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Type-safe generic data structures in C
54 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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US West prepares for possible first water shortage declaration
54 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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The Road from Rome
54 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Renaming Coq
54 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down
53 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Napoleon’s dragnet
53 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
53 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame
53 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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A library of formalised undecidable problems in Coq
53 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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State in Haskell (1995) [pdf]
53 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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SmartFarm device to harvest air moisture for self-sustaining urban farming
53 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Supreme Court sides with developers in Google vs. Oracle
53 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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The Expansion of the Universe
53 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Game Engine Black Books Update
53 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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The Leitmotifs of Wagner's Ring
53 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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What Kind of Genius Makes a Traceable, Illicit Payment on Cash App?
53 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Morpheus Turns a CPU into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers
53 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Apple’s Quiet War on Independent Repairmen
53 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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What are the chances of a third world war? [pdf]
52 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Nuclear fusion plan at former Aberthaw Power Station
52 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Gandi.net Major Outage
52 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
52 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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The Slackware Way (2012)
52 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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U.S. calls for pause on Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine
52 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (1977)
52 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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New Zealand aims to create smoke-free generation
52 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Feasibility of stealthily introducing vulnerabilities in open source software [pdf]
52 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you
52 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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European Union allowing the use of deepfakes
52 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines
52 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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What Doomed a Sprawling City Near St. Louis 1k Years Ago?
52 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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A Guide To Becoming a Reader (and reading 30 books in a year)
52 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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The Mythology of Red Bull
52 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Does the Kremlin want Alexei Navalny to die in prison?
52 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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RetroBridgeBBS: An internet bridge BBS to transfer files to your retro computers
52 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Cloudflare Images
52 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Milman Parry, who changed the way scholars think about Homer
52 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Put macOS on the iPad, You Cowards
52 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Comparative unsafety
51 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't
51 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Coding Qualitative Data
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Cicoparser: Full game reverse engineering [video]
51 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Microsoft revokes MVP status of dev who complained about request to promote
51 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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An industry based on missed calls helped bring India online
51 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Samsung's Lee family to pay over $10.8B inheritence tax
51 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Rediscovering Hamming Code
51 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Researchers estimate the richest 1% dodge taxes on over a fifth of their income
51 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Dating Sites Are Not Built for Men
51 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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When solving problems, humans tend to think about adding rather than subtracting
51 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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NASA Found Another Way Into Nuclear Fusion (2020)
51 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Several US utilities back out of deal to build novel nuclear power plant (2020)
51 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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The bacterial 'homing missiles' that scientists want to harness
51 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Chronology of the Liberation
51 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Kubernetes 1.21 Is Live
51 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine
51 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Shit User Story
51 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks
50 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Systemd Inhibitor Locks Deep Dive
50 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication
50 points • comment • apr 24, 2021