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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Learn Datalog Today
138 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps
138 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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First-Time Buyer Lorenz Curves (2020)
138 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory
138 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)
138 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Why are there so many Canadians in India?
137 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine
137 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact
137 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs
137 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce shortage
137 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Building a Space-Based ISP
137 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referential
137 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)
137 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Civilization Is Older Than We Thought
137 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Unveiling our new Quantum AI campus
137 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions
137 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The Third Thumb Project
137 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig
137 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3
136 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes
136 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master
136 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells
136 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
136 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds
136 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Launch HN: Journey (YC W21) – a better tool for selling software
136 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]
135 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Yoga and Breathing Exercises Aid Children with ADHD to Focus
135 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Avoid Git LFS if possible
135 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
135 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
135 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly
135 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Online cheating charges upend Dartmouth Medical School
135 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The Ball and Supply Chain
135 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
135 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Users post more falsehoods after others correct them: study
135 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
135 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (2005)
135 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Awful German Language (1880)
135 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL
135 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to fall to Earth in the coming days
134 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Go Modules Cheat Sheet
134 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods
134 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
134 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade
133 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Why programmers don’t write documentation
133 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
133 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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An NFT That Saves Lives
133 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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I could send any text message from Indian government IDs
132 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks
132 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Stripe isn’t a platform, it’s a mouse
132 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreens to close 17 stores
132 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Rustc_codegen_GCC can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them
132 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Compose for Web
132 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)
132 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster
132 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Modern C and What We Can Learn from It [video]
132 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Landlock merged in mainline for Linux 5.13
132 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad
132 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Python vs Common Lisp, workflow and ecosystem (2019)
131 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Video uploads now available across GitHub
131 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Saying Goodbye to Typo CI
131 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new hadrons
131 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Court rules encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor messages
131 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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1700 Cascadia Earthquake
131 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Playlist for iOS
131 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Faster web fonts
131 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
130 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Hydrofoiling
130 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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The Tragic Story of Vernon and Oswald (2016)
130 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?
130 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL
129 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU
129 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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My Personal Creed of Employment
129 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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SCP-055
129 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?
129 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Towards an HD44780-Based Video Mode
129 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Over the next year or so, Google will try out new office designs
128 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
128 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
128 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Graphics Gremlin – An Open Source Retro ISA Video Card
128 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Remote-first companies that actively hire
128 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Second Climacs – Emacs Implementation in Common Lisp
128 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019)
128 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers
128 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)
128 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Preparing your game for deterministic netcode
127 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: Wg-easy] Easy to setup, all-in-one WireGuard and Management Web UI
127 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
127 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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NumWorks – An open source Graphing Calculator
127 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Preparing for Pre-Orders! (Framework modular laptop)
127 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas
127 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The Button Cheat Sheet
127 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Uber Engineering Tricks of the Trade: Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services
127 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Material You – The next stage for Material Design
127 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?
127 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting
126 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatient Visits
126 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display
126 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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CSIRO's Data61 Dismantles SeL4 Team
126 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices
126 points • comment • may 24, 2021