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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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Interstellar Comet Borisov So Pristine, Probably Not Been Close to a Star Before
6 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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China’s Bad Bank: Inside the Huarong Debt Debacle
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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A review of research trials finds they are rigged to exaggerate AI performance
6 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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The Failure of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse Than We Knew
6 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Missing Arctic ice fueled the “Beast of the East” winter storm
6 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Porting VaccinateCA to Django
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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New Oklahoma Bill Gives Motorists Immunity for Hitting Protesters
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Off-Season: The New Jersey Photographs of Tyler Haughey
6 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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FSF board frequently asked questions (FAQ)
6 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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I, Pencil [pdf]
6 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Retraining brain to ride cycle backwards
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Venezuela Moves Closer to Dollarization with New Bank Rules
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
6 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Gaming with 1 Horsepower of Rumble Feedback
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Loongson unveils LoongArch CPU architecture for processors made in China
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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A brief history of the numeric keypad (2018)
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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What's next for encryption if the RSA algorithm is broken?
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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The Cult of Weldon Kees (1997)
6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Why did Microsoft remove the "Download ZIP" link from GitHub repository pages
6 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Tiny newfound 'Unicorn' is closest known black hole to Earth
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Learning Mesh-Based Simulation with Graph Networks – OpenReview
6 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used by Cops
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Brain on code: Researchers decipher neural mechanics of computer programming
6 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
6 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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LG to Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide
6 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
6 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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The Gas Industry Is Paying Instagram Influencers to Gush over Gas Stoves
6 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Tense exchange aboard SpaceX craft records ‘possible close call’
6 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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A simple pitch deck is a successful pitch deck
5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Why Modern Work Makes Us Miserable
5 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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X10 Home Automation
5 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan
5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Covid vaccine passports: Health experts are deeply concerned
5 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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J&J Covid-19 vaccine under EU review over blood clots, AstraZeneca probe grows
5 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Itch.io coming to Epic Games Store, along with other PC apps
5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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What Should Be Done to Curb Big Tech?
5 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Is Substack Worth $650M?
5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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The $1B Russian cyber company that the US says hacks for Moscow
5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Dan Kaminsky once found a flaw in DNS that would have destroyed the internet
5 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Traditional female free diving in Japan
5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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MobileCoin, advised early on by Moxie Marlinspike, has raised venture funding
5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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33% of Basecamp employees have now quit
5 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Node.js v16 is coming and it ships with a fat binary for macOS
5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Languages of New York City – Interactive Map
5 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Your Brain on Tetris
5 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Remove carbon from the atmosphere through reforestation
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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I studied the fonts of the top websites. Here's what I learned
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Tinker with userscripts, if you are new to JavaScript
5 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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NSA: Russian Hackers Exploiting VPN Vulnerabilities – Patch Immediately
5 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Ingenuity helicopter failed to lift off from Martian surface for its 4th flight
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Amazon AWS Snowmobile
5 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Babel alternative in TypeScript that's 2x faster than esbuild
5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Algorithms were under fire at a Senate hearing on social media
5 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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The IRS Wants Help Hacking Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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The mechanism that likely generates white dwarf magnetic fields
5 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Scaling Kubernetes with Assurance at Pinterest
5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Is Musical Notation Turing-Complete?
5 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Bellingcat launders intelligence agencies talking points to media
5 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Guide to Connection Management in Postgres
5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Tool Links Email Addresses to Facebook Accounts in Bulk
5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Is the Secret to Saving Old Websites Simplifying Digital Preservation?
5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Etsy shut down our shop, with no notice, warning, or reason
5 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Real-world data shows vaccines kicking butt–including against scary variant
5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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One in three survivors of severe Covid diagnosed with mental health condition
5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Cede and Company
5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, and GraphQL
5 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Intel's Eight-Core H45 Tiger Lake CPUs Are Just Weeks Away from Launch
5 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Building Ikigai, My Award-Winning Wooden PC Mod
5 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Putin critic Navalny could 'die within days', say doctors
5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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I land a meeting with any target customer I want
5 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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2020 Police Brutality Data Sites Gallery
5 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress
5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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How NASA Keeps Earth's Germs from Reaching Mars (2020)
5 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Researchers Tried to Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel
5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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QAnon revelation suggests the truth of Q’s identity was right there all along
5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Landauer's Principle
5 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame
5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175M IP addresses to obscure company
5 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Debt and Climate Change Pose ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy
5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Discord, Rife with Violent Extremist Content, Cracks Down on Erotic Furry Art
5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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The true story of how the FBI cracked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
5 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Goldman Sachs is close to offering Bitcoin to its wealth management clients
5 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Personal Digital Habitats
5 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Show HN: I Made a Raft Implementation and CLI Visualization in Rust
5 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Improbable Worlds’ dream of revolutionising gaming is fading
5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Userscript which highlights those who have signed the RMS Support letter
5 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Shanghai security files expose China's surveillance state, monitoring of Uyghurs
5 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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EU in vaccine passport talks with US but not UK
5 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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YouTube pulls Florida governor's video, says his panel spread Covid-19 misinfo
5 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500k Off the Meme
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Chinese provinces fall into line on super tall buildings ban
5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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The Mundell Difference
5 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Have you tried any virtual coworking tool?
5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Study links certain forms of email incivility to insomnia
5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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Ask HN: What is your favorite daily-use object?
5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Show HN: Presentador – The Opinionated Presentation App
5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Ask HN: Bitcoin is an environmental disaster. How/when can it be stopped?
5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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How I built a daily journaling habit after years of trying
5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Macintosh 68K War Stories (2019)
5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Digidog, a robotic dog used by the police, stirs privacy concerns
5 points • comment • apr 14, 2021