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Hacker News (May 2021)
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WWDC21
151 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Legalese – Computational Law
151 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Six Years of Rust
151 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice
151 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from Lua
151 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?
150 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?
150 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG
150 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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New York Attorney General declares top ISPs committed net neutrality fraud
150 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators
150 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Great books on classic video games
149 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Parsix: Parse Don't Validate
149 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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US investigates second suspected case of mystery 'syndrome' near White House
149 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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PatchELF: Simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries
149 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that
149 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Introduction to Robotics
149 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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U.S. Backs 15% Global Minimum Tax to Curb Profit Shifting Overseas
149 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Bizarre World of Scam Audiobooks
149 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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My Road to Erlang (2008)
149 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Bette Graham, inventor and founder of Liquid Paper
149 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Telescope.nvim: Find, Filter, Preview, Pick
149 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner
148 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Irish health service hit by cyber attack
148 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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The whole freenode kerfluffle
148 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch
148 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa
148 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Tip Jar
148 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Naomi Osaka faces default from Grand Slam for refusing to speak to media
148 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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History of Programming Languages
148 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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The architecture of Uber’s API gateway
147 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport
147 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams
147 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Let's Build a Regex Engine (2019)
147 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Beads: Computer language and toolchain
147 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Saying the Difficult Things
147 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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America’s Dead Souls
147 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017)
147 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
147 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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ClojureScript 1.10.866 Release
147 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Zstandard v1.5.0
146 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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The computers are getting better at writing
146 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams
146 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
146 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Paper Notes
146 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Work from Home and Productivity
145 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Unfork: The Inverse of Fork(2)
145 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Radioactivity may fuel life deep underground and inside other worlds
145 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate
145 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong
145 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”
145 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code
145 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Multicore OCaml: April 2021
144 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Identify a Facebook user by his phone number despite privacy settings set
144 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?
144 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]
143 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]
143 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Java JDK 1.0 (1996)
143 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Hardening macOS (2018)
143 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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The Programming Languages Zoo
143 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Watches from the Soviet Union
143 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick
143 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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The Suez Canal will be widened
143 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world
143 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)
143 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Using a Pager in the 21st Century
143 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Control-flow integrity in Linux 5.13
143 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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The digital currencies that matter
142 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Guix 1.3
142 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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SICL: A New Common Lisp Implementation
142 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Show HN: Csvbox.io – CSV import button for a web app, SaaS or API
142 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Physical Warp Drives
142 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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3000-pound triceratops skull excavated in South Dakota (2020)
142 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay
142 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The IRS Is Coming for Crypto Investors Who Haven’t Paid Their Taxes
142 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks
141 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Show HN: Euporie, a Tui for Jupyter Notebooks
141 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes
141 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages
141 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection
141 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology
141 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
141 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Official Elixir IRC channel moves to Libera
141 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Movfuscator: Compile C into only mov instructions
141 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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What Is the Transparent Material at the End of a Gel Pen Refill?
141 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Apache Arrow 4.0
140 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)
140 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider
140 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Building Products at Stripe
140 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked
140 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews
140 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Illumos to drop SPARC Support
140 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Stacked Git – manage commits as a stack of patches
139 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass
139 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL
139 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer
139 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Scientists prefer studying pretty plants to dull ones
139 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Persian legends and their Western counterparts (2020)
139 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?
139 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
139 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps
138 points • comment • may 07, 2021