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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline
103 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
103 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications
103 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (2015)
103 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k
103 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1
103 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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A VR Frame’s Life
103 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow
103 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice for Downloading Ubuntu
103 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Fast, Open Source Search
102 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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EV Range Breakthrough as New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60 Times Faster to Lit
102 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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An open letter from Atheme's developers and community
102 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)
102 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Methods for Array Initialization in Rust (2018)
102 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Swedish fintech payments unicorn Klarna shows you other users' account data
102 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Caught in the Study Web
102 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Reasons some languages are harder to learn
102 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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E-Prime – English without the verb “to be”
102 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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“Put that in your pipe and smoke it”
102 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Franz Kafka: Manuscripts, drawings and personal letters go online
102 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]
102 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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I’m trying to understand hedonic adjustments
102 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D
102 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Bit-sync: synchronizing arbitrary data using rsync algorithm in pure JavaScript
102 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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The digital natives are not who you think they are
101 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Show HN: Ninjabot – A fast cryptocurrency bot implemented in Go
101 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata
101 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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An In-Depth Look at What/How/Why Books Sell (2016)
101 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Robinhood’s big gamble
101 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The pandemic revives interest in a morbid French financial scheme
101 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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HN: The Good Parts (2016)
101 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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History of RSpec
101 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple exec at Epic trial
101 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone
100 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Antibody levels highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic Covid
100 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces
100 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals
100 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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John Glenn popularized the word “glitch” (2019)
100 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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A unified theory of low/no code and middleware
100 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce companies
100 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy
100 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Hetzner has banned crypto mining and Chia farming
100 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict
100 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses
99 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister
99 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Where the top of the stack is on x86 (2011)
99 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Fullerton settles lawsuit against bloggers for publishing City Hall documents
99 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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One Hundred Ideas for Computing
99 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Bootstrapping from Hex to Bison to GCC
99 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
99 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem
99 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate
99 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM
99 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Andrew Ng says AI has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap
99 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The Syslog Hell
99 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store
99 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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An obsessive scholar who rescued Iceland’s ancient literary legacy
99 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
99 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Rust 1.52.0
98 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
98 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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In the search to stall aging, biotech startups are out for blood
98 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Docusaurus 2 Beta
98 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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So, You Want to Become a Digital Nomad
98 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Why are there so many unfinished buildings in Africa?
98 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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How to build a custom data connector in 2 hours
98 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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FiatMarketCap
98 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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A future without passwords
98 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
98 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Email Explained from First Principles
98 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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My MacBook Air M1 is dead
97 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search
97 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Gnat 2021 GPL Community Edition Ada 202x compiler released
97 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Consumer prices increase 2.6 percent
97 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry
97 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The great resignation is coming?
97 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Let’s Encrypt DST Root CA X3 Expiration – September 2021
97 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft
96 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Facebook, Twitter & Instagram can be banned in India tomorrow for non-compliance
96 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support
96 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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How Japanese technology shaped dance music
96 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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CPU Bugs (2018)
96 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen
96 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)
96 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M
96 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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MIMO Radar Antenna Arrays
96 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admissions
96 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Old electric cars are a raw material of the future
96 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX
96 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia
96 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The GNU D Compiler on OpenBSD/armv7
96 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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CSS Container Queries in Web Components
96 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket
96 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Reflow, a language for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud
96 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
95 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (2018)
95 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)
95 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Italian towns will pay you to work remotely
95 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Co-founders tried to reduce my equity after company was accepted into YC
95 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Movie Tycoon Sues YouTube over Piracy and Exposes Content-ID ‘Caveat’
95 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
95 points • comment • may 07, 2021