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Hacker News (May 2021)
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IBM creates 2nm chip
574 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally
571 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
567 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Amazon Sidewalk
566 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Writing books is not really a good idea
565 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
564 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Efficiency Is the Enemy
560 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
558 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay
556 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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China lands rover on Mars
554 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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QUIC is now RFC 9000
553 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
553 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal
552 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue
548 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Show HN: NocoDB – The Open Source Airtable Alternative
547 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
537 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0
535 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
532 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
531 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
528 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
528 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Notion API – public beta
528 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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MDN Plus
519 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries
518 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Why Russians do not smile (2002)
517 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Please commit more blatant academic fraud
516 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Terms and Conditions Game
513 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
511 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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The Expanse UI Design
511 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance
509 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Life after an internet mob attack
508 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Building a personal website in 2021
503 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement
503 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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One week of Libera Chat
499 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits
499 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The most expensive number in engineering
495 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
494 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
493 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
492 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
490 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Eric Carle has died
489 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
488 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
487 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
486 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ads are impersonating government websites in Google results, despite ban
486 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
478 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux
478 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
475 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
475 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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The media's lab leak fiasco
473 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
472 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit
470 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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"To our surprise"
468 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Site Isolation in Firefox
467 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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How I Practice Piano
464 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor
460 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
454 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
452 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements
452 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
451 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Erlang/OTP 24 highlights
450 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing
449 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Searching the web for under $1000/month
448 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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The Return of Fancy Tools
441 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Monetizing open-source is problematic
441 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
439 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Is this what enterprise means?
436 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
436 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection
435 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
435 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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434 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept
434 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?
433 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg
431 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
430 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website
429 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Inkscape 1.1
429 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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How Tech Loses Out
427 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter
426 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
425 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed
423 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
422 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
421 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
421 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Fierce Nerds
419 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse
419 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
418 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
417 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor
415 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days
415 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages
414 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Observable Plot
413 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Midair Collision over Denver
410 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO
409 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
406 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
406 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
405 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
404 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
404 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
404 points • comment • may 19, 2021