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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub
40 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Why are there no return statements in Objective-S?
40 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Bitcoin gave a shuttered coal plant a second life
40 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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“It doesn’t seem to me you feel any pressure or competition” Judge says to Cook
40 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Citizen app sparked a $30k manhunt for the wrong guy
40 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Unreal Engine 5 is now available in Early Access
40 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Are we cut out for universal morality?
40 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Compositor: A database of eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments
40 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Deep-learning side-channel attacks: the theory
40 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Causal Inference: The Mixtape
40 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Databricks Unity Catalog
40 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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PostgreSQL 14 Beta 1 Released
39 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Testing in the Twenties
39 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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From Nand to Tetris (Building a Modern Computer From First Principles)
39 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?
39 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Better Thinking and Incentives: Lessons from Shakespeare
39 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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AXM Paper Space Scale Models
39 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Florida, in a first, will fine social media companies that bar candidates
39 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Startup, how to get companies to take you seriously?
39 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Women's Pockets Are Inferior (2018)
39 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory
39 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Why Covid-19 patients become critically ill
39 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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NASA suspends SpaceX’s $2.9B moon lander contract after rivals protest
39 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Have I been Pwned goes open source
39 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Who Is “Public” Data For?
39 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Folio: A customizable test framework to build your own test frameworks
39 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Show HN: A social platform where you get paid for being helpful
39 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Show HN: BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum Next
39 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory
39 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Show HN: Browser-based audio extractor tool
39 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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BPF for Storage: An Exokernel-Inspired Approach [pdf]
39 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Afternoons are the new rush hour in the suburbs
39 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Satellites may have underestimated warming in the lower atmosphere
39 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Russia gives Google 24 hours to delete banned content
39 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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US to ramp up tracking of domestic extremism on social media
39 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Divorce
39 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Show HN: Baldur's Gate 2 online demo reimplemented in WASM
39 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Minsk Family of Computers (2001)
39 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Show HN: TapeX – Draw, Annotate and Record on your desktop screen
38 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It
38 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Creating Non-Rectangular Headers (2017)
38 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Declarative Validation in Python
38 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’? (2015)
38 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Google Analytics deleted my entire account because I didn't log in for 60 days
38 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Gargantuanisation
38 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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How Did Chop Suey Become a Staple of Chinese American Cuisine?
38 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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The Problem of Distributed Consensus
38 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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China maintains fusion at 120M Celsius for over 100sec, setting new WR
38 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of clouds on Mars
38 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)
38 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Brazilian gang defrauds Uber, Lyft, DoorDash using GPS spoofing and stolen IDs
38 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Bitcoin traders using up to 100-to-1 leverage driving swings in cryptocurrencies
38 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Android Studio 4.2
38 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Ask HN: Why did your business fail?
38 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid – Cummings
38 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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The 11th Reason to Delete Your Social Media Account: The Algorithm Will Find You
38 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Neutrons unlock the secrets of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes
38 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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How China lends: A rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments
38 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Germany Rejected Nuclear Power–and Deadly Emissions Spiked
38 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Horseshoe crab blood: miracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives
38 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Doom multiplayer in Wasm running on Cloudflare Workers
38 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Freenode Now Taking over Channels
38 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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A new way to approach Wayback Machine
38 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Show HN: A Decentralized Q&A Platform
38 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75k per year [pdf]
38 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Senate Preparing $10B Bailout Fund for Jeff Bezos Space Firm
38 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Turmoil shakes California National Guard with firing, suspension of top generals
37 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical architecture
37 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District
37 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Reactive, reproducible, collaborative: computational notebooks evolve
37 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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The Pitchblende of Cornwall, England (1915) [pdf]
37 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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German ambulances uses QR code to avoid people taking photos of accidentes
37 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Amazon offers 'wellness chamber' for stressed staff
37 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Starlink Review: Broadband Dreams Fall to Earth
37 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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New Versions Released! Flask 2.0 with async
37 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Where to find contract work as a developer?
37 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
37 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Origins of the D Programming Language (2020)
37 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi (2017)
37 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Elon Musk: Bitcoin's energy usage trend over the past few months is insane
37 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Who Goes Nazi? (1941)
37 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary
37 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Study: Vitamin D won’t limit risk, severity of Covid-19
37 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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Show HN: I made an open-source publishing platform (with minimal JavaScript)
37 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)
37 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Infinitic (Apache Pulsar framework for building distributed applications)
37 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Facebook should never have stifled the debate about Covid’s origins
37 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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New York City Has Just Approved a Floating Pool in Its East River
37 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Ask HN: Who here has been successful buying a small business or tiny project?
37 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming
37 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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How the N-Word Became Unsayable
37 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?
37 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Back-ups for GPS: Satellite-navigation systems at risk of jamming
37 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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What’s the web dev equivalent of SICP?
37 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in internal letter
37 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments
36 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables
36 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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The Transitory Nature of Content on the Internet
36 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Yuan Longping, the man who helped feed China, dies at 91
36 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Software Carpentry: Teaching basic lab skills for research computing
36 points • comment • may 23, 2021