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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
1776 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
1635 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
1617 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
1437 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Welcome to Libera Chat
1416 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Sublime Text 4
1378 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
1327 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
1315 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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The Animal Is Tired
1276 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
1246 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
1241 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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A URL Lengthener
1191 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
1174 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
1159 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
1115 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
1085 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
1057 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
1030 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
1012 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
1000 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
996 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
991 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1
976 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Stripe Payment Links
972 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
949 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
912 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
904 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Crazy New Ideas
883 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
870 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
865 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
843 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Overkill objects for everyday life
838 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
836 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
829 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Learn CSS
811 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
798 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
794 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
790 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
784 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Observing my cellphone switch towers
781 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
769 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
768 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
768 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
765 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
761 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
759 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Why I prefer making useless stuff
747 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
746 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
723 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
722 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
714 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
712 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns
706 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
704 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
700 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
695 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research
695 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
693 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Poor in Tech
685 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Scala 3.0
674 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
671 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
671 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
671 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
669 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Can I Email?
667 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
659 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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DOOM Captcha
658 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
656 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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The Unix Magic Poster
653 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
653 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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HTML Tips (2020)
650 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
641 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Why I Work on Ads
640 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
636 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Upheaval at freenode
636 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
635 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust
630 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Improving Firefox stability on Linux
629 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
626 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
625 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
624 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
618 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Safari tries to fill username
615 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
612 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
610 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
602 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid
599 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
596 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
595 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices
594 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Leaving Freenode for a new network
591 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Practical SQL for Data Analysis
591 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent
590 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?
590 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
586 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Freenode ops take control of 700 channels
585 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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List of apps people pay for but have low rating
582 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Use native context menus on Mac OS
580 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
579 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
579 points • comment • may 07, 2021