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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
404 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
403 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]
402 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Semgrep: Semantic grep for code
402 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
401 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?
401 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
399 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Technologies I thought my son would never use
398 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Pass: The standard Unix password manager
398 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Lego Microscope
398 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
397 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Bitcoin miners are buying power plants
396 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
396 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released
396 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant
396 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
394 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?
392 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
390 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
390 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Why has no one made a better Goodreads
390 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Django 3.2
390 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission
388 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Setting up Starlink
388 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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You Don't Need a GUI
387 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection
386 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965
385 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system
385 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
384 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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How to make a Python package in 2021
384 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law
381 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better wine performance
381 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
381 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention
379 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
379 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]
377 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Have I Been Facebooked?
377 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
376 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Move Slow and Make Things
376 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices
376 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server
375 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
375 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
373 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Is It Pokemon or Big Data?
373 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure
372 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal
371 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
371 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight
369 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
369 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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1Password Secrets Automation
368 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)
364 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’
362 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2015)
361 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director
360 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
359 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage
358 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
358 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Rust Language Cheat Sheet
357 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
356 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
355 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
354 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Security Breach at US Universities
354 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]
354 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners
353 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Squarespace S1
352 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea
352 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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FFmpeg 4.4
350 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
349 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected
349 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
348 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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iPad Pro M1
348 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different
348 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Surface Laptop 4
347 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript
347 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Java Is Underhyped
347 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader
347 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
346 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
346 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative
346 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified
345 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
344 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project
343 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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.NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI
342 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir
339 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
338 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Why we switched from Webpack to Vite
337 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)
337 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
336 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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How did Microsoft make Flight Simulator seem so real?
335 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
335 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Every Noise at Once
335 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
334 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
334 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
333 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities
332 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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FLoC Away from Chrome
332 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
331 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years
331 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Facebook slow to address political manipulation in poor, small countries
330 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard
329 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Internet Search Tips
329 points • comment • apr 17, 2021