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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Man used Coinbase to pay hitman in Bitcoin for wife's murder, FBI says
87 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Writing a game from first principles in 65c02 – Part One
87 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Rejection Sensitivity
86 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Cray-2 Memories [pdf]
86 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: Convect – Instant Serverless Deployment of ML Models
86 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims
86 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Web worker meets worker threads – threads.js
86 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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C++ Workflow: C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine
86 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests
86 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration
86 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance
86 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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SkyTransfer – Free, Open-Source, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing
86 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Holes in the WiFi
86 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Emacs Lisp book revived: Marcin Borkowski
86 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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80% of the 22M comments on net neutrality rollback were fake
86 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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The Carrington Event: not something to worry about (2020)
86 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Amazon's Sidewalk Network Is Turned on by Default. Here's How to Turn It Off
85 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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ZenithOS is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System
85 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Counting Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB of Memory (2012)
85 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Directory of Open Access Journals
85 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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The metabolic face of migraine
85 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link
85 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Ask HN: I think I hate the software development industry? Am I crazy?
85 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Tiresias typeface
85 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Ask HN: How Long Is Your CI Process?
85 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Paper Aeroplane Wind Tunnel
85 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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VGA ROM Fonts (2020)
85 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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GitHub Actions Down
85 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction (2020)
85 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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The intestinal microbiome of latrine sediments from two medieval cities (2020)
85 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Camera-Only Autopilot Requires Automatic High Beams Enabled
85 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Competing with Steve Jobs (the first time)
85 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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My oldest kid made this to raise awareness for composting
85 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery
85 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda
84 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache
84 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It Absorbs
84 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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U.S. moves to double Canadian lumber tariffs
84 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Redbean 0.4
84 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Integrating Rust into the Android Open Source Project
84 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Diffie-Hellman for the Layman
84 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Bird Architecture
84 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII strings
84 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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We can 3D print wood now
84 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Rural purge
84 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality
84 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System
84 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932)
84 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (2020)
84 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Sri Lanka faces 'worst-ever beach pollution' from burning ship
84 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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All Hail King Pokémon
84 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because charging is a hassle
84 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Mac the Knife
84 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5th
84 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
84 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The PGP Problem: A Critique (2020)
84 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Google now lets you password-protect the page that shows all your searches
83 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism
83 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2
83 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses
83 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Bill and Melinda Gates Separated
83 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Plaid paid people $500 for their employer payroll logins
83 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The Opportunists
83 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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YouTube Experiencing Issues
83 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Dragon Go Server
83 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Ask HN: Engineering managers; what are the problems you face?
82 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Commodore’s Assemblers: Part 1: MOS Cross-Assembler
82 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Court orders WhatsApp to suspend users sharing pirated movie
82 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater
82 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores
82 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert
82 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Fungus-like organisms in deep time and deep rock
82 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation
82 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Why a small handful of counties generates the bulk of US death sentences
82 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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1nm Breakthrough: TSMC, MIT and NTU Published on Nature
82 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Raspberry Pi Releases new PoE+ Hat
82 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server
82 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]
82 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Moderna to take mRNA flu and HIV vaccines into Phase 1 trials this year
82 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap
82 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?
82 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’
81 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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55,000 lines of Rust code later: A debugger is born
81 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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MNT Reform 2 DIY Kit Review
81 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Please, Think Critically About College Admissions
81 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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From Rust to Spark: Formally Proven Bip-Buffers
81 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope
81 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder
81 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care in November 2019
81 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Multiplying Integers Using Fourier Transforms [pdf]
81 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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When Hackers Were Heroes
81 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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The Memex Method
81 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware
81 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Hacking the Silvercrest (Lidl) Smart Home Gateway
81 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia
81 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Spin-torque oscillators for WiFi band transmission and energy harvesting
80 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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System76 Launch Keyboard
80 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)
80 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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U.S. Treasury seeks reporting of cryptocurrency transfers
80 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Two men arrested with 7 kg radioactive uranium in Mumbai
80 points • comment • may 08, 2021