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Hacker News (May 2021)
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UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
67 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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YouTube deletes links to Russian anti-government voting project
67 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Why Working from Home Will Stick
67 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Why are there so many people in prison in America? (2017)
67 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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SunBook – Sunlight Readable Netbook (2014)
67 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: “what the fuck is going on?”
67 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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We Are Still Out Here
67 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Part 2 of Interview with Linus Torvalds
67 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Apple’s A15 chip will ship with an objc_msgSend branch predictor
67 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Total Relighting: Learning to Relight Portraits for Background Replacement
66 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel
66 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Service-Oriented vs. Monolith: Organizational Perspective
66 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Verizon Selling AOL and Yahoo
66 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The Red One
66 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Linear Clock: Solar
66 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far
65 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Forth – The Early Years (1991)
65 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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James Bond Unmasked (1968)
65 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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80/20 is the new Half-Ass
65 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Noisy appliances: How loud is your house?
65 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Mauryan Polish
65 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
65 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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TeXmacs and the Art of Mathematical Writing
65 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
65 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Android 12 will let alternative app stores update apps automatically
65 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Kibbutz
64 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Iceland played an unexpected and crucial role in the Second World War
64 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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May Update: Connection Established
64 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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50B birds live on Earth, new study finds
64 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Removing Borders, Erasing Palestinians: Israeli Population Maps After 1967
64 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)
64 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work
64 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Tesla Autopilot system was on during fatal California crash, more safety concern
64 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science
64 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems
64 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Converting stroked primitives to filled primitives (2020)
64 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Shrinkflation: Costco Paper Towels, Now with 20 Fewer Sheets per Roll (2012)
64 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Apple Watch Likely to Gain BP, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring
64 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Z80 Development Toolchain
63 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty
63 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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SXS switching cutover to ESS, live at Glendale CA central office (1984) [video]
63 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go in Terms of Input?
63 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the U.S. [pdf]
63 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The downfall of Malaysia’s biggest sugar daddy platform
63 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
63 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Atomics in AArch64
63 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Federal Gov. left ‘completely blind’ on cyberattacks looks to force reporting
63 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Thunderbird stored OpenPGP secret keys without master password protection
63 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The Rise of Righteous Online Bullies
63 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Play the trombone in your web browser
63 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (2020)
63 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Thinking fast, slow, and not at all: System 3 jumps the shark
63 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Windows Package Manager 1.0
63 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Ask HN: Where would you incorporate in 2021?
63 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay fell
63 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Show HN: Monty, Mongo tinified. MongoDB implemented in Python
63 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Tesla owner arrested after riding in the back seat while it was on autopilot
63 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Ask HN: Is it better to generalise or specialise as a developer?
63 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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An app that swiftly sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers in Denmark
63 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Open source computer vision API
63 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle
62 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
62 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants
62 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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The history of lab leaks
62 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Using CMake and Managing Dependencies
62 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Developers Turn to Analog for Neural Nets
62 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Some stealth edits Vox made to its article debunking “conspiracy theories”
62 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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All Is Orwell
62 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?
62 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity (2019)
62 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
62 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Most and Least Affordable Places to Buy a Home
62 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Portability Is Reliability
62 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment of the CDC
62 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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My life as a woman in tech, told in three beverages
62 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Making a “MiniKanren” using Z3Py
62 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of judgment over 200 years
61 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation?
61 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Using Kubernetes to rethink your system architecture and ease technical debt
61 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Thinking for Programmers (2014) [video]
61 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Instruction level just-in-time programming
61 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
61 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Bitcoin Is Failing at Becoming the Future of Money
61 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Google Relaxes Work-from-Home Rules to Let More Staff Be Remote
61 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Authorities are looking to close the gap on crypto unhosted wallets
61 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Improved distributed algorithms for fundamental graph problems (2017)
61 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Justin Trudeau’s Plan to Control the Internet
61 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The Mammoth Pirates
61 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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One man’s journey to the center of the bowling ball
61 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Run your ghost blog on Raspberry Pi for free
61 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The Man of the Circular Ruins
61 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
61 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Show HN: ThingsTwin – 3D House Plan Based UI for Smart Home
61 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting German WhatsApp Data
61 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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I got 22k app downloads in one weekend with a $0 budget
61 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds, Citing 'Security Concerns'
61 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% salary?
61 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Zellij – a friendlier tmux or screen in rust
61 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land”
61 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Palestinians criticise social media censorship over Sheikh Jarrah
61 points • comment • may 08, 2021