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Hacker News (Apr 2021)
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Librem 14 begins shipping
241 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
241 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Noise in Creative Coding
241 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
241 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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When 70M people visit your joke site
240 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals
240 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland
240 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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Red and blue functions are a good thing
240 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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In Support of Richard Stallman
240 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Update on campaign targeting security researchers
240 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
240 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)
239 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Terraform 0.15 General Availability
239 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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The war against money-laundering is being lost
239 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Ask HN: What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?
239 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool
238 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook
238 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018)
238 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Why Rust strings seem hard
237 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Bernie Madoff has died
237 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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Old Book Illustrations
237 points • comment • apr 10, 2021
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Starting a new digital identity
237 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Mars sucks
236 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Inside Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
236 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
236 points • comment • apr 06, 2021
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Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)
236 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)
235 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Launch HN: Porter (YC S20) – Open-source Heroku in your own cloud
235 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck
235 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)
234 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning
234 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?
234 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser
234 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox
234 points • comment • apr 15, 2021
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Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
233 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge
233 points • comment • apr 14, 2021
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MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated
233 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
232 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
232 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Staying awake to treat depression (2018)
232 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army
232 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Show HN: Manuzoid – Database of More Than 1M Manuals
232 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?
232 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack
232 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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First steps with Rust
231 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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NSFW Server Designation
231 points • comment • apr 13, 2021
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Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function
231 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency
230 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back
229 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
229 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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I booked my cheapest one-month trip
229 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months
228 points • comment • apr 25, 2021
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Forced unemployment and second-class status: Google's data center contractors
228 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
227 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Lambda School lays off 65 employees
227 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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A practical guide to reducing loneliness
226 points • comment • apr 26, 2021
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CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming
226 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
226 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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A brief history of Rust at Facebook
226 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?
226 points • comment • apr 22, 2021
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Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network
225 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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When real world mapping meets Tolkien
225 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Google used past bid data to boost win rate in advertising auctions
224 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video
224 points • comment • apr 08, 2021
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Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts
224 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Facebook wants to 'normalize' the mass scraping of personal data
224 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit
224 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Referees’ home-bias in football disappears without audience: study
224 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash
224 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure
223 points • comment • apr 03, 2021
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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
223 points • comment • apr 28, 2021
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Tales from Prediction Markets
223 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water
223 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
222 points • comment • apr 18, 2021
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Jeff Bezos comes out in support of increased corporate taxes
222 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them
222 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5
222 points • comment • apr 11, 2021
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Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
221 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem
220 points • comment • apr 17, 2021
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My experience releasing failed SaaS products
220 points • comment • apr 04, 2021
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Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
220 points • comment • apr 16, 2021
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OpenFlights – airport and airline data
220 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Hunting down the stuck BGP routes
219 points • comment • apr 21, 2021
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Show your costs to boost sales
219 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months
219 points • comment • apr 02, 2021
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Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries
219 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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The NCAA Erased My Career
219 points • comment • apr 24, 2021
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Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering
218 points • comment • apr 19, 2021
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Remote Code Execution Found in CocoaPods
218 points • comment • apr 20, 2021
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Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid
218 points • comment • apr 27, 2021
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Hacking a $200 Under Desk Exercise Bike
217 points • comment • apr 09, 2021
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Brazil Rejects the Gamaleya Vaccine
217 points • comment • apr 29, 2021
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Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average
216 points • comment • apr 30, 2021
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YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers
216 points • comment • apr 07, 2021
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What defines a great company culture?
216 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm
216 points • comment • apr 23, 2021
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Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision
216 points • comment • apr 05, 2021
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Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor
215 points • comment • apr 01, 2021
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Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
215 points • comment • apr 12, 2021
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Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate
215 points • comment • apr 16, 2021