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Hacker News (May 2021)
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Signal Tried to Use Instagram Ads to Display the Data Facebook Collects
30 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Peter Sunde: dark.fail domain was hijacked through fake court order
30 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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US soldiers accidentally leak nuclear secrets via study apps – report
30 points • comment • may 29, 2021
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Coinbase’s successful transition to React Native
30 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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The Electric Ford F-150 Can Power Your House for Three Days on a Single Charge
30 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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Trouble at Basecamp
30 points • comment • may 10, 2021
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Updating an Apple Watch Series 3 is a nightmare in 2021
30 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Why rich parents have rich children
30 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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macOS: Nasty Hack Breaks Apple Security to Take Sneaky Photos
30 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds
30 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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AT&T announces $43B deal to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery
30 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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It's set to be a hot, violent summer
30 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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DC Attorney General sues Amazon on antitrust grounds
30 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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No Meaningful Differences in Male and Female Brains, Study Finds
30 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Tree-Shaking: A Reference Guide
30 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Washington is playing a losing game with China
30 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme (2018)
30 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Show HN: I fetched remote jobs from Who is hiring in May 2021
30 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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Going Unconscious
30 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Salesforce Is Down
30 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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DC police suffer ‘massive’ info leak after ransomware attack
30 points • comment • may 13, 2021
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My salary as a full-stack developer
30 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows
30 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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The environmental price of fast fashion (2020)
30 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5B
30 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Labor of Division: Algorithm D
30 points • comment • may 04, 2021
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The Pumping Engine
30 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018)
30 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Old Reddit Redirect for MS Edge Contains Malware
29 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency
29 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
29 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Trump's blog isn't lighting up internet, showing effectiveness of deplatforming
29 points • comment • may 11, 2021
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Physics
29 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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“Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons–An Event Apart Video
29 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Benefits of 2D code layouts (2018)
29 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
29 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Mob violence against Palestinians in Israel is fueled by WhatsApp groups
29 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Amazon Drivers Are Instructed to Drive Recklessly to Meet Delivery Quotas
29 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Cryptographic Shuffle
29 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut
29 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Waiters Reject Signing Bonuses, Hobbling an $860B Industry
29 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Make Light Trucks as Safe as Cars or Ban Them from Cities
29 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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Renaissance Science: the base ten number system
29 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare
29 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
29 points • comment • may 09, 2021
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India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from Covid content
29 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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FTC Study Confirms Everything 'Right to Repair' Advocates Have Been Saying
29 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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UN doc: military drones may have autonomously ‘hunted down’ and attacked troops [pdf]
29 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Asynchronous API with DynamoDB Streams
29 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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I Made a Spotify Roulette Game
29 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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Using ASCII waveforms to test hardware designs (2020)
29 points • comment • may 16, 2021
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Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by an engineer trying a quick fix
29 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Why Logitech Just Killed the Universal Remote Control Industry
29 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Be worried about how much info WhatsApp shares with Facebook
29 points • comment • may 14, 2021
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Oversight Board upholds Trump’s suspension, finds FB failed to impose penalty
29 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Just got a DMCA takedown notice from NordVPN
29 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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University of California Will No Longer Consider Sat and Act Scores
29 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Can GitHub be accessed through console-only for entire workflow?
29 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Did Stone Age Humans Shape the African Landscape with Fire 85,000 Years Ago?
29 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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Robot paramedic carries out CPR in ambulance in UK first
29 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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IBM Common User Access
29 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Screening healthcare workers could serve early warning system for future viruses
29 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Python to Distributed Python to Airflow task in ~5 lines of code
29 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Reverse engineering an AI spaceship game at DEF CON CTF
29 points • comment • may 23, 2021
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Audacity: Information About Our New Contributor License Agreement
29 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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UK Government Wants to Sell Your Medical Records – Here’s How to Opt-Out
28 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Ōta Chōu’s Vaccination: Medicine and Modern Girls in 1930s Japanese Painting
28 points • comment • may 21, 2021
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21,000 Cancer Patients Died in 2020 Lockdowns Forcing Cancelled Appointments
28 points • comment • may 07, 2021
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Texas Senate Passes One of the Nation’s Strictest Voting Bills
28 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Why have cameras and lenses become so expensive?
28 points • comment • may 31, 2021
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Atlas V launch seen from airplane passenger
28 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves (2020)
28 points • comment • may 18, 2021
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Transitioning to Tesla Vision
28 points • comment • may 25, 2021
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Andreessen Horowitz plans $1 bln cryptocurrency VC fund
28 points • comment • may 03, 2021
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Tesla suspends Bitcoin car sales over environmental impact
28 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Zuckerberg Gobbles Up Another Big Chunk of Hawaii Beachfront
28 points • comment • may 02, 2021
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Tesla crash driver posted videos of himself riding without hands on wheel
28 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Why are you pro/anti Bitcoin?
28 points • comment • may 19, 2021
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Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think
28 points • comment • may 30, 2021
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Ask HN: Getting back to C++ and looking for ideas
28 points • comment • may 08, 2021
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"Irssi does not take a political stance"
28 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Ethereum crypto billionaire Vitalik destroyed 40% SHIB coins worth $7B
28 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Galois’ Last Letter (2008)
28 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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Scientists at Wuhan lab in Covid probe admitted being bitten by bats
28 points • comment • may 28, 2021
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The Right Angle: On Izaak Walton’s “The Compleat Angler”
28 points • comment • may 20, 2021
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Snapchat Can Be Sued for Role in Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules
28 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain
28 points • comment • may 01, 2021
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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
28 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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ISDN: The Untravelled Path of Mobile Computing (2015)
28 points • comment • may 05, 2021
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Chip-8 (and Emulators) in Plain English
28 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
28 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Former Navy pilot says flight crews saw Atlantic Coast UFOs every day for years
28 points • comment • may 15, 2021
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Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will Change the EV Industry
28 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Blizzard Sends Cease-and-Desists to Diablo II: Resurrected Modders
28 points • comment • may 27, 2021
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Status Anxiety as a Service
28 points • comment • may 24, 2021
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Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
28 points • comment • may 17, 2021
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Should Google just become a VC fund?
28 points • comment • may 22, 2021
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Reverse-Engineering a CRC Algorithm (2010)
28 points • comment • may 12, 2021
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If I fits I sits: An investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in cats
28 points • comment • may 06, 2021
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Effect of the Last Week on Ruby on Rails
28 points • comment • may 01, 2021