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Hacker News (May 2021)
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What we lose when literary criticism ends
36 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon
36 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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When will your elevator arrive? Two physicists do the math
36 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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We Fixed the Ozone Layer
36 points • comment • may 22, 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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Hot Chips 33: Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Zen 3, Next-Gen Z, Neoverse N2
36 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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The Once and Future Shell [pdf]
36 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers
36 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”
36 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Types of Robotics Papers
36 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly
36 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Software Carpentry: Teaching basic lab skills for research computing
36 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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The Distribution Vector That Changed Linux Forever
36 points • comment • may 07, 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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There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math
36 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Omnimatte: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Video
36 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Show HN: Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps
36 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Small Satellite Launchers – A Comparison
36 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?
36 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments
36 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Show HN: Run SQL on Spreadsheets
36 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?
36 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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City pays $350k after suing “hackers” for opening Dropbox link it sent them
36 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010)
36 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Don't wait for the government to fix surveillance capitalism
36 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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WiFiStation: A WiFi Interface for the Cidco MailStation
35 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Starship's Belly Flop Maneuver
35 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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FDA finds wood pulp in major American parmesan cheese brands
35 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi
35 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Response to your May 12, 2021 letter to Chairman Sellers [pdf]
35 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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How We Moved from MongoDB to Postgres Without Downtime and Cut Our Costs by 30%?
35 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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New version of Kinesis Advantage coming late 2021
35 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Bill to Federally Decriminalize Marijuana, Expunge Records Reintroduced
35 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Elon Musk Suggests Tesla May Have Dumped Bitcoin Holdings
35 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Google employees demand Palestine support in letter to CEO
35 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Cornell and NTT’s Physical Neural Nets Enable Arbitrary Physical System Training
35 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Microsoft confirms Windows 10x is not coming in 2021, and likely never will
35 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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ExxonMobil Wants You to Take Responsibility for Climate Change, Study Says
35 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Many Need for Speed Games Are Abiut to Be Erased by EA
35 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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A Warning from History: The Carrington Event Was Not Unique
35 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels
35 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization
35 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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ST3 Update now is ST4
35 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Gen Z is going to have a hard time getting rich
35 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Replacing Bert Self-Attention with Fourier Tranform: 92% Accuracy, 7X Faster
35 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Virtuozzo’s Mature Linux Distribution VzLinux Now Available to Public
35 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence in Camera, on Film
35 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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I just open sourced my music collaboration site
35 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Show HN: Cocert: split your private keys securely amongst untrusted network
35 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Serendipity Finds You (2010)
35 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Short Tutorial on Python's ChainMap
35 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Ubuntu 21.04 significantly faster than windows 10 on Threadripper
35 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-Based High-Performance Radio Link for RC Applications
34 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
34 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Offensive Tweet Quiz – Twitter is terrible at identifying offensive tweets
34 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Where did the notion of “one return only” come from?
34 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Bitcoin rival Chia 'destroyed' hard disc supply chains, says its boss
34 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Airlines customer data breach for 4.5M users, Star Alliance, Air India, et al.
34 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever
34 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
34 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians
34 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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The Dunyazad Digital Library
34 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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“Collectors might be confused … you're not auctioning the [320x200] originals”
34 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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The Lives of Napoleon
34 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’
34 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Google ‘Experiments’ with Bringing RSS Capabilities Back to Chrome
34 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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A Death in Cryptoland: The Story of Gerald Cotten and QuadrigaCX
34 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Bitcoin falls further as China cracks down on crypto currencies
34 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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PipeWire: The new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34
34 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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SpaceX aims for its 100th successful flight in a row TODAY with a Falcon 9
34 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Handling exceptions in Python like a pro
34 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
34 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month
34 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Indian scientists flag virus mutations that could ‘evade immune response’
34 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Experiment, powered by RSS, to allow following of creators in Chrome
34 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Walking in L.A
33 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold
33 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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SciteQt: A Port of the SciTE Editor to Qt/Quick – Android App and WASM available
33 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Evening is the Best Time of Day for Men to Exercise for Metabolic Health
33 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Ask HN: Show me some most beautiful fonts
33 points • comment • may 26, 2021
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Let's talk about the Tether scandal
33 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Ask HN: How can I move away from engineering?
33 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Putting an old digital clock (with an outdoor thermometer) on steroids
33 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Daytripper: Hide-My-Windows Laser Tripwire
33 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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PEP 657 – Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
33 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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San Francisco All-Female Hacker House Aims to Support Women Builders
33 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States (2016)
33 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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We’re on track to set a new record for global meat consumption
33 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Arbitrary code execution found in ExifTool. Make sure to update to 12.24
33 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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On the New Architecture of Location-Based Services [pdf]
33 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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A six figure meme making job at a legit company
33 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Prioritise the Highest Order Bit
33 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Over 10k women are suing Google over gender pay disparity
33 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
33 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Python Default Dict
33 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What’s Next?
33 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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BMC: Accelerating Memcached using In-kernel Caching and Pre-stack Processing
33 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Ask HN: Freelancers and consultants, what do your project proposals look like?
33 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Where have all the Uber drivers gone?
33 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Ward: Modern Test Framework for Python
33 points • comment • may 16, 2021